Good morning and welcome to your daily insight.
As I woke up this morning,
What am I going to think today?
And of those,
What thoughts am I going to believe today?
When we are finding ourselves in patterns of thinking and realize they no longer serve us,
Considering changing it can feel daunting.
I have so many thoughts in a day,
You say,
How could I possibly capture every single one of them and change them?
This is not our task.
Our task is only to notice when one is occurring that leads you away from yourself.
When you think about cleaning an entire house,
Are you not closer after you have completed one room?
What thoughts are you going to believe today?
Who would you be if you believed that thought?
If it leaves you with a pit in your stomach,
Let it fall away.
And if it expands you and lightens your chest,
Lean into it.
Who would you become if you started leaning one direction?
I know that if you change the trajectory of a plane just a percent,
Your destination is entirely different.
The same is true for what you can do for yourself today.
That one thought that you capture may only be a percent,
But if it expands you,
It is a percent in the right direction.
I used to have trouble honoring myself,
This little girl who danced like a butterfly from thing to thing in life,
Kissing everything in life,
Thinking,
This is so delicious,
This is so wonderful,
This is so great,
This is so beautiful.
That is who I truly am.
And over time I lost her and lost sight of her and no longer thought about the things that she thought about,
No longer noticed the things that she noticed.
Until one day I decided what thought would I have to think to get a little closer to her.
And after a while,
The birds song outside the window,
The way the sun would fall on my face,
The way the hair would blow and the woman across the street.
I started leaning into her.
I started thinking what she would think.
And it becomes easier.
When you start cleaning that house,
At the start it feels like one room does not matter.
It is still the whole house.
We still need to focus on so many other things to be anywhere near what we're doing.
But dear one,
This is not the way this works.
Do not hold yourself back from thinking that you can create change by focusing on everything at hand that would need to be changed.
Change occurs the moment you alter your path.
Lean into what you could do in this now moment,
The very next right thought that would move you toward the thoughts that you want to think,
The thoughts that you want to believe,
And the beliefs that would change you into who you want to become.
Have a good day.
