Not everything needs to be solved today. Some things need to be felt.
Practice: Stay with one sensation or emotion for 3 slow breaths.
That was my mindfulness cue for our Mindful Monday post in social media.
In a recent newsletter, I talked about learning how to linger in the discomfort of indecision—giving us time to work through the emotions of our parts that drive those “shooting from the hip” behaviors.
In my mindfulness classes, this takes two steps: awareness (the naming) and acceptance (sitting in full flavor of the moment, good or bad, until our experience clarifies).
So today’s newsletter is a simple one, aimed at the functional, perfectionistic achievers out there (takes one to know one!) who look good till they’re not.
When you do that culturally approved problem-solving—the kind that gets you the promotions, helps your household keep ticking, and makes you look ohsogood…
And the discomfort of existence eventually finds its way to the surface—you know, the middle-of-the-night wakings, the holing up because you can’t people any further, or feeling ohsoexposedandoverwhelmed…
What is your inner voice placing on your shoulders?
How does it feel in your body?
Is there regret there, too?
And what would happen if you could move that experience “up” in time—from after the choices were made and the parts were plowed over, to before… when they were tender and just seeking some understanding and consideration in the process?
What are you ignoring RIGHT NOW that could benefit from some awareness and acceptance?
Love, Renee