So what's the real problem with caffeine,
Alcohol,
Sleeping pills,
Painkillers?
I'm not going to give you any religious,
Philosophical,
Moral,
Ethical,
Theological reason.
I'm going to give you a very,
Very basic reason to steer clear of substances like that.
Not that I'm against partying or a good time.
I just believe that fundamentally you have a good time in life when you're deeply connected to yourself.
When you are connected to your core,
To your intuition,
To your feelings,
That's when you truly enjoy life because you live out every moment authentically.
Your joy is your joy.
You're following your path,
Not anybody else's path.
And caffeine,
Alcohol,
Sleeping pills,
Painkillers,
Drugs,
Any substances,
They disconnect you from yourself.
They disconnect you from your intuition.
They disconnect you from how you really feel.
And the only roadmap toward your joy,
Towards yourself,
Toward living an authentic life,
The only roadmap is how you feel.
The more disconnected you are from how you feel,
You lose the map.
So a really clean life,
Very clean of all those substances,
Is the only way to live out your own joy.
And that is the ultimate self-kindness,
That is the ultimate self-compassion to connect to yourself.
E.
E.
Cummings wrote that the ultimate prayer is,
May I never pretend.
If you take sleeping pills at night,
Smoke marijuana in the morning,
And drink alcohol to end the day,
You're pretending not because you want to,
But just because you don't have access to how you really feel those substances are taking over.
So very,
Very clean life.
Try it.
Start getting off of any of those extras that stimulate you so you can be in your rhythm and show up as your full self.
And you'll see how much juiciness,
Deliciousness,
Enjoyment,
Love there is in that.
Enjoy.
