Are you your own harshest judge?
In my last blog post I wrote about how judging your day creates your experience.
But what about self-judgment?
What emotional damage do you sustain from how you judge yourself?
Judgments you impose upon yourself can generate guilt that blights years of your life.
The negative verdicts of your inner judge destroy your self-confidence, diminish your self-esteem, cripple your choices, and quash your creative expression.
Looking over Lake Kawaguchi towards Mount Fuji I recall the ancient Tao insight on how to experience life:
Only when you stop liking and disliking
Will all be clearly understood.
When I suspend judgement of good versus bad in whatever happens to me or around me, suddenly I perceive the world through fresh eyes.
Which is much easier said than done.
How many judgements have you made today since you got up?
If you have ever experienced flow you know how exhilarating it can be.
Your actions glide effortlessly.
You challenge your abilities with confidence and skill.
You soar towards your goals with clarity of focus and awareness.
Contrast this with your feelings when you lose flow.
How do you define your personal comfort zone?
In physical terms, your comfort zone is the temperature range at which the naked human body is able to preserve a balance of heat without sweating or shivering.
Your emotional comfort zone is the situation in which you feel comfortable, secure, or in control.
It is the psychological state you maintain because it feels the safest and the most familiar.
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Have you noticed that how you get out of bed affects how you feel the entire day?
Get up grousing and you are likely to grouse for hours after.
Arise in anticipation and the day opens into a treasure house of possibilities.
So how about a 2010 goal to get out of bed in a way that supports rather than hinders your daily activities?
This morning I awoke to the brilliance of the first snow this winter.
Even behind closed curtains the sunlit whiteness of the mountains brightened the room.
A welcoming dazzle that urged me to greet the day’s untapped potential.