01.29.07
Making Your Life a Daily Practice
I’ve been thinking about the ten steps in yesterday’s post since I ran across them. I think they are a wonderful way to evaluate how we’re approaching our lives and help us make a conscious choice to take charge of them. It’s easy to fall into the pattern of believing that our lives just happen to us while we abdicate responsibility for the good and the bad that we see around us. When we fall into that mindset, we live defensively and reactively to the situations in our lives.
The best way to draw what we want into our lives is to live intentionally rather than reactively. Acknowledging that we’re responsible for the good and bad around us lends energy to our creation process. We can become accustomed to intentionally creating our lives by turning that creation into a daily practice. It makes sense–we develop most skills by practicing and developing intuition for them by discovering techniques that make sense for us. We should put at least the same amount of effort into living fulfilling lives.
Here are some suggestions for turning your life into a daily practice:
- Before you get out of bed or during your morning routine, actively create your day. Thing about the things you want to happen or a way you’d like to feel and visualize what it would be like. Remember to ask for a sign to affirm your creation process so you can see it working.
- Choose positive energy by avoiding the negative. There’s a lot of fear in the world these days and it’s hard not to lose focus if we surround ourselves with news and information playing into it. I have been training myself to be allergic to negativity. If I encounter negativity as I go about my day, I reject it by changing the channel or the subject or my direction. I choose to believe that life is a positive experience and I find dwelling on negative things distasteful.
- When something signifigant (good or bad) comes into your life, take a moment to think about how you drew it into your life. If it’s a good thing, incorporate what you did into your daily practice. If it’s a bad thing, think about ways to avoid drawing that energy into your life again.
- Incorporate joy into each day. Make sure that you do something every day that you love to do. Joy is one of the most powerful manifesting forces in the universe and if you choose to bring it into your life on a daily basis, it will bring that power to you.
- Be grateful!
