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Education:Self-Improvement
413 I Rest Purposefully February 2018 Saturday Week 3
Synergistic Saturdays-#413 February 17th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast
I Rest Purposefully
“It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
~Rita Rudner
Guess what, you guys are my one special persons???, my peeps, my crew, my spiritual gangstas, my brothas from anotha motha, my sisters from another mista, my friends, my community. So I hope you don’t mind if I do like Rita says and annoy you for the rest of my life 😉 We got a long haul of great things ahead for us.
I know you have been putting your nose to the grindstone this year. You have been pushing yourself harder to your goals, and I can feel how tired you are. I feel it myself. And if you feel bad because you haven’t put in the work you wanted…don’t. Because that…is the past, and right now is the chance to take a different path. It is the choice to step away from feeling sorry for yourself and to purposefully decide to move towards the actions you want to take in becoming who you wish to be.
So whatever side of the fence you’re on, we need to purposefully rest. I believe that whether you’re hustling hard, or feel bad about not hustling hard enough…both can be on the same path of burn out. The reason I say that is because we are always judging ourselves on if we’re good enough, if we’re working hard enough, if we’re doing enough…and whether you’re putting in the work or not…your mind is still processing it as not good enough, and so you never relax.
I’ve spent so many years never relaxing, never centering myself, because I was always thinking about what I should be doing. And so when I would get back to work, I’d be tired because even when I tried to rest I couldn’t. I wouldn’t allow myself to do it. There was always something to feel guilty about not doing. There was always one more thing I could have done.
We live in a world that’s led by comparison. We see where our friends are in their lives and then judge ourselves on whether we’ve made it to there level…or even if we are better than them as a source of self-esteem. We look towards people we want to be like and constantly compare how we aren’t good enough, and if only we had the talents they did…then maybe we could make it look as easy as they do. And so we are always burning ourselves out ,never being happy with ourselves.
I believe we should always be reaching further than our grasp, but we also should learn to be kind to ourselves in our pursuit of betterment. There’s only one you, and there’s only so much you can do with your resources.
I’m not saying that you can’t do anything; I am saying we expect the impossible from ourselves as a way of sabotaging ourselves. We look at someone’s chapter fifteen and compare it to our chapter one. And so we find discontentment in who we are, and our place in life, which brings the self-fulfilling prophecy to life as we tell ourselves, “see I told you that you could never be as good as him, or her.”
So I’ve gone further into this thought then I wanted to. I just really wanted to give you permission to relax. Sometimes we just need someone to tell us it’s ok to take a break. So wherever you are in your pursuits…whether you’re burning the candle on both ends, or you haven’t even started—I’m giving you permission to take a break for yourself; to stop beating yourself up for a moment, and to relish in the quiet solitude of being you. You are a miracle, no matter what you’ve done in this life. The mere presence of you is a beautiful mark upon this earth. So let us be kind to ourselves a little more, let us allow ourselves to relax from time to time to center ourselves…as even batteries need time to recharge, and let us love our place in life as we reach just a little further every time…knowing we are worth the effort to ask for more of ourselves.
Today’s Personal Commitment:
Instead of me giving you a challenge…let’s do a guided meditation together. So feel free to do this how you like, have your eyes open, closed, sit up straight, or stand up straight.
Think about a string that’s connected from your head to your butt and like a marionette puppet you place your hand above your head and pull that string as you physically lengthen out your spine.
{MEDITATION}
I Rest Purposefully
Thanks for listening. I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn
Contact info- email: chris@strongwithin.com phone:865-219-3247
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