Results through a regular practice…
We create our lives by creating a series of habits and routines that help us to get where we need to go. These habits and routines are paramount to us leading lives that are reflective of our best selves, in alignment with our values, our integrity and most of all, a reflection of joy.
These habits and routines are designed to make life easier, to free us up and to allow us to really enjoy life. We can be super creative, invest our energy into people and activities that we love. Habits and routines also allow us to move through the more challenging aspects of our lives with more ease. That is, the things we have to do each day, for the sake of our survival or even for the sake of delivering our purpose to the world through our work. Some of these aspects can be challenging and often demand a lot of our energy.
Some habits and routines are good for us and allow us to do all of this in a way that we would choose. Some habits however are not so good and can take from our energy. Habits that help us include eating nutritious food, exercising, getting rest when we need it and doing things that maintain cleanliness and hygiene. Habits that aren’t so helpful and take away from our energy include eating junk food, watching TV in bed, procrastinating, speaking to ourselves negatively. No judgement here, we all have both positive and negative habits, in reality no habits can be bad as habits and routines serve us in some way. We seek out things to help us, it’s just that some of these became automated and we can get stuck in them.
We create a life that we love, a life that we can be in, work in and love in by creating a regular practice of self care. Sometimes this is hard, we need that habit or this because we become overwhelmed or stressed. Sometimes what we do to self soothe leads us into a guilt and shame spiral, regardless of this, we are looking to improve and by creating a regular practice there is no way we can’t improve!
All change comes from a conscious decision to be different. We know what we want and we create a higher idealised version of ourselves. Our best version of ourselves eats and drinks a certain way, it moves and talks a certain way and our higher version of ourselves has a certain impact on the world through our relationships and our work. To align ourselves more with this idea of ourselves we can use these intentions to drive our change making decisions. How often though have we decided to change and then just forgotten, or, in the moment, even felt we don’t have the choice?
Our nervous system and how well we are regulated plays a huge part in this. If we are not regulated then we will reactively live through our desires and needs to feel more regulated. If we are stressed we might eat a tub of icecream to feel better. It works in the moment, but the behaviour isn’t exactly in alignment with our higher idea of ourselves. When we are regulated we are closer to creating new habits and routines that feed through to the rest of our being, our days look different and then our weeks look different. Before you know it you’re living a whole new life that doesn’t feel new at all, just more of yourself.
Creating a regular practice of meditation, breathwork, mindful movement, yoga and other forms of self care help to keep us regulated. Attending classes once or twice a week is what helps to drive our nervous systems closer to regulation and to maintain that state for longer. Not just this but when we regularly practice to become self regulating we are able to move through blocks and self sabotaging behaviours much more easily.
It’s the regular practice, or habit that creates the lasting change, it feels good and we are more in alignment with our true selves, sure, trying meditation once or twice is nice for you but just like going to the gym once per month, the impact is low.
So with that, it’s time to enter a regular practice, to find out what works for you to bring you into a more regulated state, you deserve it, you desire it and it will make a whole lot of difference to your life as you know it. See our events page to discover classes and events that can assist you in creating a regular practice.