Good morning.
Nice start to a Thursday.
It's supposed to be quite nice here today which I'm looking forward to but we'll see what happens.
It looks pretty gray at the moment but it's all good.
So this morning I wanted to pop on just for a few thoughts on thoughts as it's what I've been posting about and talking about in my group this week is these ideas of who we are and what life is supposed to be like and what we expect things to happen like and how we see the world.
These thoughts and beliefs come from all sorts of places.
They come from things others have told us.
They come from what society tells us.
They come from our own experiences,
Things that have happened throughout our lives and I know automatically we tend to take thoughts as truth and beliefs that we hold as truth but when we really actually look at them,
Take this step back and wonder and question like where do these come from?
Where did I actually get this piece of information?
Is it and like is it true?
Is it true?
Like is this true for me or is it that I think it's true because so many other people have told me that it is or I've just thought it's been true for so long?
We can have like we can ask these questions at any time.
There is nothing stopping us from doing this except ourselves and I think it's helpful for sure and that's something I find useful in meditations too as I work through them is getting to know myself better and getting to know what my actual truth is and what are things that other people have given me that that don't serve me at this point in time.
It's like I took them on at some point because at that time it was helpful.
There was a benefit to me and there was a reason I chose to carry it but there are some things I know that I carry now that as I start to analyze and like question and look at them that I realize aren't of benefit to me currently.
So they had their role and I am super grateful for that but their time is done and it's time for me to put it down.
I express the gratitude,
I express the appreciation for what it offered me and I let it go.
Sometimes this is super easy and I'm like ah cool moving forward awesome.
Other times it's a journey and a process on its own to release the beliefs that I've held for so long,
Held from past experiences that no longer apply,
That my ego is super attached to.
It's like this kept you safe,
This helped you,
This did all of these things.
Why would we not keep that?
I think of it kind of like when I clean out my clothing closet as well.
It's just like there's things in there that at times I go through and I literally cannot remember the last time I wore it.
I have absolutely no idea but there is some part of me that's just like but maybe and then it's like I go through this process and sometimes I'll hang on to it until the next time I clean out the closet.
Other times I'd be like nope nope okay like I'm grateful for having it.
I'm glad it was part of my world.
It is no longer fitting like it either literally doesn't fit or it's just that sense said like I can't remember the last time I wore it so it's why am I hanging on to this?
It's time to let it go.
So it's an interesting and like ongoing journey that we have with these things.
So we can do this like I said with clothing,
With physical items and we also benefit definitely from doing this with what we carry mentally and what we carry emotionally and looking at everything from a place of love and gratitude and compassion because everything you carry everything you've had served a purpose.
There was there's a reason it's there and it was definitely beneficial at some point.
It's just looking at the things that currently are not benefiting you or helping you move forward into your highest self into the next stage even into like today because sometimes it just works out that way and it's looking at those with love and compassion and checking out.
It's just like how is this of benefit if this is not serving me right now?
Can I express the gratitude and the love for it and let it go and move forward without it and see what happens?
Some days are easier than others.
Myself my thoughts definitely took over yesterday and it was a day of I'm lying on the couch and I'm not doing anything because I just can't today and that's fine.
It's fine.
I'm okay with that and I accept and I appreciate that I have that level of understanding with myself now that I can do that and today I feel way better and I'm like okay let's do this.
I'm motivated.
I've got a bit of a plan of what I'm going to take on today and we'll see what happens.
We will yeah it's like it'll be an event.
It's like every day is an adventure and take everything with or take everything in stride right?
Like every day is a new day to create new things and some days your creation is rest and that's perfect.
There is nothing wrong here.
It's all like it's all a journey.
It's all a learning curve and sometimes it's easier than others.
Sometimes your ego and thoughts take over and it just is and some days you will rock the world and all of your thoughts are like yeah I got this which is awesome and ride those waves when they come.
Yeah so that's kind of my thoughts for this morning.
I invite you to take some time and consider some of this.
Consider the thoughts and beliefs that you carry and keep carrying those that are helping you and let go of the ones that aren't.
Do the practices.
Do the work so that you can be a little lighter for you.
All right have a fabulous day folks and we'll talk soon.
Bye.
