Monday, May 6, 2013

Your life is a practice

Read this full article from the master shift by By David G. Arenson ND

It's such a good reminder for us to love ourselves. 

To transform mind, body and spirit requires cultivating self-love.

Here's a few points to transform your life from the article:


FIRST KEY: Activate awareness of self and self-talk.
What do you say to yourself perpetually?
Do you listen to your thoughts, filter them, question them?

SECOND KEY: Clean and purify the body vessel.
Your body is your temple. It serves you. It represents you.
As your temple, if you do not treat it as such, you’re unlikely to develop or enhance self-love. Destroying your body does the opposite of engendering self-love; it is self-defeating. Your body not only serves you, it is also your manifesto. Treat it as sacred.

THIRD KEY: Spiritual Refinement
When you connect to the essence of spirit, something changes within. It doesn’t matter what your spiritual or religious belief is, even if you believe in nothing, or you’re an atheist. What matters is that your practice some refinement of the soul.

If you don’t already have a daily devotion like prayer or meditation, explore the available options or create your own daily practice. It is never too late to start. For some, it is time spent playing or listening to music, that uplifts their soul. For others, it is a combination of things. I have never heard anyone tell me it involves TV watching, traffic or work!
Make the time to develop your relationship to yourself via doing something that uplifts you.

FOURTH KEY: Personal Communion
Every day, you require “me” time in order to be centred.
This time is not selfish, it is essential for personal wellbeing. In this time, you can develop your thinking and refine your sensibilities. It may be in the form of a quiet walk in nature, a bath, or time alone in meditation. This is your greatest investment in YOU!

FIFTH KEY: Develop a Personal Vision and Purpose
What are you doing here? Just waiting for the weekend to start, or for the next TV show to begin? Or is there something deeper, greater, bigger, bolder? Is there some goal that is beyond yourself, something that defines who you want to be, your statement to the world?
Develop a personal mission statement that works according to your values.
This is the next step in personal evolution and happiness stating who you are to the world.

SIXTH KEY: Your life is your practice.
Ultimately, your lifetime is a sum of actions, experiences and how you spent your time. How would you wish to be remembered?
Your life is your practice – so how would you wish to spend it?
Only you can answer this question.

Time to practice:)

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