Be Gentle With Yourself (and there is no goal to get to ☺️)
[I think I might record myself reading this one 🤔 … oh DUH! Podcast content!! 🤦🏻♀️🥳🤩 I am so so silly 😜🙈]
“Be gentle with yourself.
To enter this experiment as an adult is not easy. The strategy is simple but to live this is really hard.
The conditioning that began when we were born and for the first seven years got locked in as a pattern.
We've been living that pattern of who we think we are for all the years we've been alive. To go against that conditioning is no small feat.
Our very bodies hold the conditioning especially in our open centers and it colors our whole life.
It is cellular.
It's not simply about changing our mind set. It is a cellular transformation that takes seven years.
The most difficult period is at the beginning. That's why just to begin with "waiting" can truly help.
It still doesn't make it easy. But slowly as we live a week, a month, a year, a few years in this new way - it gets easier and easier.
In the beginning there is no trust. We don't know. Is it going to work? Am I going to survive? Are my friends and family going to think I'm weird? There are so many unknowns in the beginning.
But slowly, as we relax into living life through strategy, we get to experience something new and very real happening within that we resonate deeply to.
This is when the seed of trust begins to grow.
Our minds can be so harsh and critical. And when we begin to live life in such a different way, they can become very loud in judging us and telling us all kinds of terrible things about ourselves and our lives.
One thing I learned early in my own experiment was that I could not believe as true anything my mind said to me in words about myself and my life.
My mind was always against my inner authority. This changed over time but in the beginning it took out the big guns to defend its authority over my life.
It's important to be aware of the mind talking and not to believe it as true.
And the most important thing is to be gentle with yourself. You don't need to police yourself and judge yourself or anything like that.
Go easy. Let yourself be.
This is a process and it is a long one and there is no goal to get to.”