Live your life consciously with some simple daily inner work practices
It takes time, energy, effort and commitment to do our inner work. Ultimately it’s worth it, if we wish to lead a conscious life; here are some of my simple daily practices to consider
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So I start my day with checking out what’s happening for me throughout the day coming, setting a few intentions, noting where there may be some challenges and just do a brief run through how I’m going to manage the day; preparation is everything.
At the end of my day I do an audit of how my day’s gone. And I’m careful not to go down a self recrimination route. Instead I pick out and choose to focus on all the good things that have happened throughout my day, how well I’ve handled my day, how well I’ve handled myself and it’s a lovely close to the end of the day.
A gratitude practice is also lovely - to be grateful for everything in our days at the end of the day.
Throughout the day I check in with myself and I notice when my inner critic comes online and I gently shift that energy, change my perspective and move into a place of gratitude, into a place of kindness and compassion for myself.
This takes work, inner work takes work. There’s a constant surveillance, constant checking in with the self and noting whatever happens throughout our days - not to blame, not to shame, but really to name and notice when we go into our inner critic, when we’re self flagellating and being mean to ourselves.
The opportunity there is to always flip the script and to shift again the energy into something positive. Not Pollyanna positive, not to be positive in a toxic sort of way, but a real conscious way. We can always move that perspective, change the script and be kind to ourselves; practise compassion, kindness, tenderness to ourselves, know that we’re always doing our best even when we might not be doing our best and that’s okay as well.
It’s being conscious of what's going on on the inside and changing that internal environment always to our perspective, to a better perspective for ourselves, and in that way we break paradigms, we smash paradigms, we break down the inner critic and the difficult states that we can cultivate without being aware of them.
It takes time, energy, effort and commitment to do our inner work. Ultimately it’s worth it, if we wish to lead a conscious life and take ownership of ourselves within so that our external world reflects this and we get to live on purpose.
