Category: Thoughts for Thursday

It’s all too often we put the weight of the world on our shoulders. This pressure we put on ourselves to do everything, to be perfect, to be everything to everyone, to be a superhero, to have super powers, to be happy all the time, to be strong all the time is creating the stress that we really don’t wanna feel. We are creating overwhelm in our life, we are creating nervousness and anxiousness and chaos in our minds through this pressure we are putting on ourselves.

Do you ever struggle with making a choice? Do you ever have thoughts that just create chaos in your mind? When it comes to making choices we sometimes feel stress, pressure or the weight of the world because we forget we can always choose again.

Flexibility is not just about physical flexibility it’s about being flexible in all parts of your life and in fact flexibility may be one of the most important things to maintain. Being inflexible in your body means you can’t move completely you get stuck and maybe you have pain. When we talk about being inflexible in life, that has the potential to totally derail everything we desire to bring stress and tension; to create a jail of our own making. When we are inflexible we box ourselves in.

We can attach ourselves to anything. And those attachments weigh us down; they keep us in one place. To be free we must release our attachments, whatever they might be.

We live in a world where we are constantly connected. At the snap of our fingers we can connect with anyone or anything. Connection is great, sometimes its too much.

We often say we want normalcy or a normal life. What does that mean? Normal is different to everyone. My normal is different then your normal and so on. Instead of searching for normal embrace the moment. Normal is just a word that actually creates pressure and stress.

When we sit in compassion we change our whole perspective. Judgement and fear bring on stress. They place pressure and the weight of the world on our shoulders. When we take the time to shift that judgement and fear to compassion and love we begin to melt our stress away.

How are you feeling? What have you been feeling? Are you allowing yourself to feel? We often push aside our “negative emotions” because we don’t want to feel them.

The present moment is the greatest gift we can give to others and to ourselves. Right here right now this is life! A lot of our stress stems from the past or the future. If we want to release the weight on our shoulders we must allow ourselves to live in the moment.

We talk about Gratitude around Thanksgiving and then we forget about it the rest of the year. Gratitude is a really powerful practice and its time to bring it into our everyday life!