Damn straight Skippy.
Just about every time I turn my computer, laptop or phone on there are messages that updates, optimizations and security scans are ready, and required, to keep these devices running at peak performance.
If non-living devices need constant monitoring, care and attention, what makes you think we can keep going day after day without checking in on our internal, and external, operating systems?
Today we are focusing on our internal system.
We can’t keep running without giving ourselves some kind of check up, tune in and reset.
Yes. Most of us get an annual wellness check.
Or, we should.
Some of us get our eyes checked each year.
Some of us get our teeth examined and professionally cleaned, if not every six months, then we do it once a year.
What about the daily look inside to take our mindset check up.
What are we thinking?
Do we need to up grade our thoughts and get rid of the ones that are not working?
Are we checking in with our soul and knowing with certainty that we are aligned with the power that creates worlds that lives in, as, and through us?
Are we doing things that make our soul (us) feel good?
Or, are we on the hamster wheel running non-stop simply because we don’t know how to stop the constant turning so we can get off, stretch ourselves and refresh?
The easiest and best way I have found to exercise my mental, spiritual and emotional beingness is to have a daily, yes daily, not every now and then, not when I feel like it, but having a daily practice of loving myself enough to gift myself with less than an hour each day to sit still in quietness, without any distraction for as little as 20 minutes.
Twenty minutes is my number.
Twenty minutes is my sweet spot.
it could be 5 minutes, 10 or 15 minutes for you.
I just sit there feeling peaceful and thankful.
Not every day is a peaceful sitting.
Some days the demons in my mind feel like it is their time to come out and play.
I can’t stop the thoughts that want to unbalance me and take me off my center, so I let them have their say.
I look at them, consider what is being communicated to me and examine what is coming through.
I then get to determine if the nonsense makes any kind of sense.
The non-productive mind chatter is mostly always nonsense.
Unless, we are being shown some things about ourselves we need to give some attention to.
I get to remind myself that I am in charge of my mind and my life.
I get to see if I am still operating on outdated information.
It may be time to let go of the old, no longer serving and functioning thoughts, by replacing them with new strong, empowering, now necessary thoughts.
This so important me time works best for me first thing in the morning, shortly after waking.
Yes, I purposefully get up before I need to kick my regular day into gear, to make this happen for me.
FOR ME! I DO THIS FOR ME! IT IS MY MORNING GIFT TO ME. EVERY MORNING!
I set the timer on my phone for 20 minutes.
When my 20 minute sitting in stillness, or mind chatter time is up, the next thing I do is press the repeat button on my timer so I can journal.
I write.
That is all journaling is.
I allow whatever needs to come through to come through in writing.
It is another way of touching bases with my operating system that is inside of me that often doesn’t get any air play once my regular day is underway.
It is therapeutic.
It allows me to remind myself that all is well.
I got through most yesterdays.
I knocked other yesterdays out of the park!
Tuning in and checking up.
Journaling is a multitude of things.
It is a release.
It is a downloading of inspiration.
It is an opportunity to give air time to my soul who often is forgotten about once my regular day gets under way.
It is a time to remember that I and my higher power are connected.
It is a reminder that all is well with me and the world.
Just write.
Don’t give any real thought to what is coming through.
Don’t worry about grammar.
Whatever it is, is what it is!
Just write!
I write for the full 20 minutes until the alarm sounds.
Then I stop.
This is how I re-boot, re-start, tune up and do my mental, spiritual and emotional wellbeingness check of my internal operating system.
It is a daily practice.
I owe my very life to this.
What do you do to make sure you are performing at your peak, and showing yourself some always required self love?
It is okay to respond, engage and talk with me.
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Love. Peace. Blessings.
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