Today I make a small positive effort. If the efforts that I make are not coming from a good place inside of me, they will get me nowhere. If I make negative efforts born out of attitudes that are not helpful, no matter how hard I work at them, it will yield little positive change
I will be willing to reposition myself today. When I lock myself into protective, defensive or aggressive poses, I am making any negotiating impossible. Being stubborn and clinging to my rigid position can be both dangerous and foolish. I can take another look. I am willing to move and be moved. Shortly after dark, the
Today I will live life without a script. I will sink back into the moment and let it be. I will allow my own spontaneity to emerge and enable me to participate in situations in ways that are appropriate and allow for my own aliveness. When I do not presuppose each event that I walk
Today I recognize that getting to know the soul within me is my best weapon against fatigue and depression. My circumstances may not change, but I experience my circumstances differently. I see life in a new way when soul is at the center of my being. All roads out of this center eventually refer back
Today I will seek insight and understanding rather than comfort. If all I want is commiseration, I will embed myself deeper in the mire. Instead I will fully accept my pain, whatever it may be, knowing as Buddha taught that it is a condition of life. Running away from it does not take it away.
Though my movements may at times seem random and meaningless, I will trust that if I can tune into a force beyond me, my life will come to feel like a thousand meaningful coincidences with the deeper pulse of living. If I need scientific proof that all life is congruent and issues from one source,
Today I understand that I was not able to claim my autonomy as a child in healthy ways. When I tried to put needed and healthy distance in my relationships with my parents, it bothered them, I suppose, because it made them feel rejected, activating their own abandonment issues, and because they thought I would
It is my fundamental nature to be always in a state of flux. My brain is elastic and ever young. I can and will tell myself a hundred times today that my brain has the ability to be ever flexible and open. Why should I atrophy, why should I decay psychologically? Life would be so
Today I refuse to beat myself up because I have in some way made an error. I needn’t fall apart on the inside. When I go on and on berating myself, one mistake becomes ten, and soon I have burrowed myself in so deep that I can’t get out. This time when I do something