I was at the gym this morning listening to a great mp3 lecture, and an insight hit me…
I’m sharing it here because I think you’ll dig it.
Here’s the scoop: I go to the gym, eat pretty darn well, take deliciously long walks – all of which is a NEVER-ENDING process. (Sounds awful? – it’s actually great news – keep reading…).
Here’s why I say that…
Staying physically healthy isn’t just a 1-time deal. I don’t hit the gym for 18 hours straight and store up for the winter. I don’t eat well once, and call it a year. My body – just like a plant – needs constant, consistent, super-lovey-dovey-ness.
And while there’s room to slip-slide a little, if I go too long without lovin’ it up, I risk playing a round of “Poof-Goes-The-Red-Head!”
The same principle apply to us: Our Soul. Our essence. And our spiritual evolution.
It’s not something you “do” during a weekend class, private retreat or hour-long webinar. It’s something that needs daily food in order to grow strong.
Hardly a day goes by that I’m not reading, listening or watching something uplifting. Hardly a week goes by without a meeting with a mentor or group of kindred spirits. Hardly a month goes by where I’m not embracing new understanding and greater awareness.
Every flickering moment provides us with a choice: to fill ourselves or deflate ourselves. And it doesn’t have to be dramatic! Even 5, 10 or 15 minutes of inspiration added to a day can radically change the quality of one’s life.
And the flipside holds true, too.
Feed yourself energetic junk food – like the deep-fried chaos of (most) movies, TV and talk -adio; the cheese-puffed stress from life’s many mindless distractions; the piles of fudge-covered fright from most fashion magazines; and the syrupy-sweet lyrics from your favorite tunes — and WOAH, NELLY! You’re gonna have yourself one whoppin’ case of spiritual indigestion…
But that shouldn’t surprise you. Eat energetic-garbage often enough, and you’re going to require a SERIOUS detox or mental-diet somewhere along the way to help flush out this sort of gunk from your system.
You see, what most people don’t realize is that EVERY misaligned message that you pump into your brain will require some serious Soul-energy to sort, manage, compartmentalize and prioritize it into digestible bits (no different than your digestive tract). And that chews up precious time you could be using to blossom into that whole, expansive, wise “New You” that you’ve been yearning for so badly (for so long)
Watch an hour of the boob-tube and count on spending a majority of your mojo trying to un-wring the twisted Chi from your knotted knickers! No joke, my friend. You have NO idea the effects your current distraction-diet is having on YOU.
(Yick!)
Imagine for a moment: what would it be like if you implemented just 1 of the following to your daily life work-out:
• Listen to a motivational lecture while commuting to work?
• Watch a movie that make you feel bigger, better and even more beautiful?
• Reading something that’s empowering, energizing and inspirational?
• Delight in music with soul-soaring, spiritual or sensual lyrics?
• Add an educational or uplifting mp3 lecture to your exercise routine?
• Or fill in your own pure-postiive idea here:
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Spend your energy wisely, and step into the big, bold, brave life that you’ve always craved. Small steps add up big-time – bit by bit over days, weeks, months and years. And their effect ripples out in ways bigger than your brain can even comprehend.
So what will YOU choose today? Expansion, or contraction? Moving forward, or stepping back? Opening your heart a teensy bit more, or burying yourself under more and more layers of distraction, confusion, negativity and “Yick!”?
That’s what I thought.
So go grab those tennies, and load up your MP3 player… you’ve got a walk in your future, and my sense it, it’s going to be a Soul-FULL one!
Then share what you’ve committed to add to YOUR day in the comments section below. Or share with us what activities feel YOUR Soul! Unstoppable women want to know…
Enjoy!
© 2011 Stephanie McWilliams
