I want you to close your eyes. (Well, you know, read this first then come back to the beginning and close your eyes…) Just close your eyes and take a nice deep full breath in and then let it all out. Just keep doing that in and out nice and easy. Now I want you to think of your favorite weather. In what setting are you perfect? What does it look like? What is the temperature? How does it feel? This is the place where you are relaxed, peaceful and content.
For me, my weather is 76 degrees and sunny with a slight breeze. I am sitting at the beach looking at the ocean with out a care in the world. I am completely comfortable and at ease with who and where I am in the world. This feeling of ease is how we all should be living every minute of everyday. This feeling is the real you. Your authentic self is calm, peaceful, relaxed, open and accepting of everything that is happening.
We can’t get rid of stressors. We live life, we are trying to make relationships work, to keep our families happy, we get sick, stressful things happen, bills have to be paid, we have to put clothes on our backs and food on the table. How we respond to stress is what is going to make the difference in the quality of the lives we lead.
Sometimes in life we find ourselves doing something that seems so easy to us its like second nature. When your doing it, you have a quiet confidence about you. Your head is high and your shoulders are back and you don’t even think about what it is your doing because it is an extension of yourself. If you even stopped to think about what you were doing your thoughts would be a confident, “I got this!” What if your entire life was what you felt this way about? Your gift is something that comes so easily to you that you don’t even give it that much credit. Well you should! Whatever it is that you are doing when you don’t think twice about it is part of your gift, that is the real you. What if we got to wake up every morning and feel like, “I got this!” and jump out of bed? Start to recognize that what may seem like no big whoop to you is actually really something amazing and noticing it and being grateful for the ability to do what you do is the beginning of understanding just how valuable you are to the universe.
People feel confident when things become second nature. Daily practice is the only solution to make anything become second nature. You have to put the time and work into it because there are no shortcuts to any place worth going to. Daily practice will essentially empower you. SO let’s begin here, instead of practicing daily thoughts that sabotage who you really are, (unworthy, not good enough, not thin enough, not wealthy enough, not pretty enough). Lets start practicing thoughts that will empower you to be the person you are meant to be. Which is really to just be you. (I am worthy, I am strong, I am beautiful just as I am, I already have everything I need. For starters!!) We grew up thinking it was arrogant to think highly of yourself. There is a difference between arrogance and confidence. Arrogant people are the opposite of confident and when you are confident there is no room for arrogance or bravado because like we said before, You got this!
We are all a part of a giant puzzle and we all fit together to form the most perfect and beautiful big picture. But if we are not being true to ourselves than we wont fit into our part of the puzzle. If we don’t fit into our part of the puzzle than the big picture is incomplete for all of us. It is not only in our best interest to support and help each other. To lean on each other and to help each other up when we fall and to hold a hand out when we stumble. Being strong enough to hold someone else up but have the real strength to ask for and accept help when we need it ourselves. (But then they will think I am weak! They will see the soft spot and go in for the kill!) No, they will see someone amazing who is being brave and if they don’t then being free of people who won’t help you when you need it is kind of awesome right?
Like an abused person who doesn’t want to leave their abuser because its what they know, we tend to hold on to toxic relationships with friends and family and habits because its what we know. Having the courage to drop people/habits who are not good for us seems scary at first but essentially that is the first sign that you are beginning to heal and understand your own value. It is the key because if the people I surround myself with are living in a positive upward spiral than that makes my life better and vis versa!
You have to be ready and willing to commit to daily practice of well-being. Reiki is a balancing practice that activates our inner healing and restorative abilities. It is non invasive and non manipulative. It touches us on every level of our being- physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. It is simple yet influences us in a very profound way. Reiki brings us to a deep, relaxed and restorative state. It enhances clarity, our innate intuitiveness and connection with one’s Self and life.
When you are calm, relaxed and feeling balanced you can face things that come at you in life from a calm, relaxed, and balanced state, which will enable you to respond rather than react to the stress of life. Daily Reiki allows you to take things more in stride. Of course life can rattle and shake you but being committed to a daily Reiki practice can enable you to come back to that balanced state.
These are very stressful times we are living and doing our best to raise our family in. If you are not a Reiki practitioner or don’t have access to one you can also practice deep belly breathing to reconnect with yourself everyday. I know it sounds to simple to be true. Trust me, if you turn to your conscious deep breathing for even just a few minutes a day you will begin to see a difference in the quality of your life. You already have everything you need within you to lead a balanced life. We all are on the same team and we have got to do our best so we don’t let our teammates or ourselves down! Be brave enough to be a perfectly imperfect part of the puzzle so together we can all see how the big picture is really supposed to look.
