Jealous of your friends results?

Jealous of your friend smashing her goals?

Triggered by the woman on Instagram that seems to ooze the confidence you can only imagine having?

Stuck in a mood and having a hump day from hell that is likely to get worse as the hours roll by?

All illusions of the mind.

Here is your daily reminder that you have the ability to direct your awareness and attention.

There are infinite ways to perceive and experience reality – you get to choose what is most true about you & what you are experiencing in any given moment.

Years ago mindfulness was an abstract concept for me.

My temple became the gym. My practise weight lifting.

Mindfulness was built in witnessing the way I could direct my awareness and attention to build me up and make me feel strong, capable and resilient- or tear me down to feel weak, insecure and anxious.

The weight on the bar could either be the catalyst for me to tell the story of my grit or the thing that broke me in the moment I was in.

What I chose to tell myself was the determining factor in how I experienced myself each time I picked up the barbell.

In life, we aren’t solely responsible for everything that happens to us – but we are responsible for how we perceive and receive what we are experiencing.

You ALWAYS have the opportunity to ask yourself:

-What lessons am I taking away from this experience?
-How is this experience shaping my beliefs?
-How do I want to look at this situation?
-What story will I choose to tell?

Even on your worst day, mindfulness is your super power to shift your perception and change your point of view.

In her book Getting Unstuck, Pema Chodron teaches about freeing ourselves from a fixed mindset. She describes the way a mismanaged mind can solidify around an idea and decide that “this is the way things are”.

When you are operating from a fixed mindset – you are overlooking any other possibility.

When we live life in this way – we get trapped into the experience of perceived certainty.

As humans, we crave certainty so this is certainly an easy trap to have fallen into without even realising.

When you look up into the sky and see a cloud, do you really see THAT cloud or are you making assumptions about what clouds look like because you have seen them in the past.

We go through our lives like this – we see things through a lens of the past rather than being available to the now-ness of the moment that we are in.

Our soul feels the difference when we are awake and seeing things as they really are and not just as we “think” they are, or how we might want them to be.

The exciting thing is – no thing is fixed.

Freedom from fixed mind gives you access to curiosity and discovery. There are billions of ways to perceive any moment of your life.

You get to create the story you will tell about the moment you are in.

So beautiful friend, what story have you been telling yourself about the day you are experiencing? What else is available to you?

How could this story end with a little mindfulness and a conscious choice of perspective today?