Newsletter #8

I woke up this morning later than usual…(thank you God, my sleep has been off lately, waking at 3am..) and did my little morning ritual of listening to a prayer and then meditating. On my journey to find a guided meditation on YouTube, I found a short video by Joe Dispenza and it totally resonated with me and I had to share. 

I don’t know if you can relate to this but, do you think rewarding yourself is going and getting a gift, or going on a vacation, or even moving when you are tired of where you are and need some new scenery in your life, but is it a gift? Yes, it is a small gift in that it gives you a sense that yay, something new! But it wears off. The joy and sense of appreciation is waying…

Real self care, I believe, has to happen each and everyday. In your home, it can’t cost money and it brings you happiness and peace of mind in the day. 

I have always bought myself presents, vacations, moved too many times to count and always hoping to change me. Give a new perspective. And, it  does for moments, days and sometimes months but in the end I go back to the place of what is next? What can I get my little fix from? 

Today it hit me like a ton of bricks. It is self care. It is being able to listen to what is going on inside me, inside my head.

The word meditation is scary to some, in fact I had a guest on my show this week (it hasn’t aired) and she asked me about meditation and I told her about how I went to Penn and learned that my mind will never be silent but what I didn’t tell her is that it takes practice, kindness and patience. All things that I was not very good at….

I wasn’t good at doing the same things all the time, practice. But guess what? Structure in the end is good for me. 

Kindness to others, friends, neighbors I am great with, but true kindness to my family, my husband myself has been hard. We all have some sort of baggage we carry from our childhood and being kind to ourselves is of the utmost importance. If we aren’t kind to ourselves then how can we be authentically kind to others, and the ones we love the most. We need to LOVE ourselves. 

Patience is a virtue, and I didnt have that virtue and the older I get the more I realize that if I just wait and be patient everything works out the exact way it is supposed to. 

The deeper I dive into what is really going on inside of me and look at it honestly it is me that needs to change, I need to give myself the grace, courage and honor to listen to my heart. 

Today, take 5 minutes just to stop and breathe and listen to what is going on inside you. It may give you the answers you have been looking for.

Have a Happy Happy 

XO

Elizabeth aka Bizzy