Hello and welcome to day seven of living from love rather than fear.
This is a 30-day experiment.
My name's Liz Scott and each day for 30 days I am intentionally bringing my awareness to living from a place of love rather than fear and I'm writing a journal and then sharing what I learn every day and just as a reminder when I talk about love I'm not talking about romantic love.
I'm talking about love in regards to feelings of compassion or gratitude or peace of mind or settledness and when I'm talking about fear I don't mean being scared.
Fear for me can be anything unsettled.
It could be insecurity,
Frustration,
Overwhelm,
Anxiety,
Those sorts of things.
The invitation is that you join me on this 30-day experiment where intentionally all that's happening is I'm noticing when I get into those unsettled feelings and I bring my attention back to a place of settledness and love.
It's like I bring my attention back within me.
So today one of the things I've learned or maybe I should say the key thing I've learned today is the power of simplicity and what I've seen today is the way that I make things so complicated,
Much more complicated than they really are and what I'm loving about this experiment is I'm noticing some of the really small things in my world that actually deliver a big lesson,
A really big piece of learning for me.
So let me explain what's gone on today and then I'll share what I've learned because one of the things I noticed,
I went out for a walk today.
I love walking up on Dartmoor and as I was walking along the moor I found my mind moving into a habitual nag of a conversation which was letting me know that I wasn't enjoying this experiment,
Living from love rather than fear and the irony isn't lost on me but here I am in the midst of an experiment of living from love and the very experiment is appearing to make me feel annoyed and frustrated and angry.
I mean how funny is that?
It's funny now,
It wasn't then and as I was walking along feeling a bit like oh why am I doing this?
Why am I giving myself this 30 days to write a journal and to record what I'm doing?
No one's going to be interested,
No one's going to listen.
Why do I put myself through this extra work?
So as you can see I was really churned up in my thought patterns.
Now the beauty of living from love rather than fear or at least having that awareness is that I am absolutely beginning to notice now when my feelings become unsettled.
That for me is a really good first step to realize that I'm off course and then what I'm doing is I'm bringing my awareness back to that settled space and so I noticed my feelings revving up and I brought my awareness back to love and here's what happened for me today.
A fresh thought came through and this fresh thought came from a settled space.
So it's interesting as soon as I noticed what was going on I noticed my unsettled feelings and I stopped investing time and energy in them they start to settle and then it brings or allows space for something fresh to come through and what came through was a thought came through and it was like well if you're not enjoying the experiment don't continue it like you don't have to do this.
So once that fresh thought came through another thought came through and this thought came from a settled space and it was well no I'm actually enjoying this experiment why would I give it up I actually want to continue and then another thought came through and this for me was the learning for today.
It suddenly occurred to me that I was creating rules about something I had made up.
So I had made up some rules about doing this experiment.
I had made up some rules about what I needed to do.
I had then made up rules about how it should be and then I had made up rules about how upset I would be if it didn't turn out the way I thought it should.
Can you see all these rules I've made up but one of the things that really helped me here is that I realized that I have this propensity to make up rules and then give myself a hard time based on the rules that I've made up.
So today has been a real wake up for me and it's been so beautiful because it's such a small thing in a way noticing my thinking and then coming to this space of settledness.
I realized the importance of and the way that I have a tendency to make things complicated and I don't want to.
I want to enjoy this experiment.
So what I've really seen today is a couple of things.
Firstly I'm noticing more quickly when I get into unsettled thinking and I bring my awareness back to love.
As I bring my awareness back to love and my thinking settles fresh thinking comes through and today that is where the lesson was for me and the lesson for me is about simplicity.
It's about noticing when I make things unnecessarily complicated and I start giving myself a hard time when I don't need to.
So that's what I've learned today.
I'd love to know how you are getting on and whether or not you are seeing different things for yourself as you go through this experiment of living from a place of love rather than fear.
