Daily Practice

Great group at my house last night. It was fun to see you all!

I was contemplating what to write today and when I sat with it, the words "daily practice" came to me. In the Gratitude CD that I just created, I talk quite a bit about a daily practice of gratitude. When you wake up in the morning, think of what you are grateful for and you will affirm with yourself and with the divine what you love in your life. When you affirm what you love, you naturally create more of it in your life. When you go to sleep, again give thanks to the day, and you will sleep soundly and feel more content when you wake up in the morning.

A gratitude practice is vital, but I also want to cover the full picture of what a daily practice of connecting with the divine within yourself looks like. Here are some important elements to include.

1. Morning gratitude prayer. Sitting for an moment before you get up and and being consciously grateful.
2. Set an intention to do something that you love to do for yourself at least once a day. This can be dancing around your living room to your favorite song, this can be taking a hot bath, this can be reading a chapter of a good book, or this can be anything that brings you joy. This is your own moment, whatever your own moment looks like for you, so live it fully. For those of you who are caretakers and love to help others, you can help others as much as you want in a day, but the moment I'm talking about here is totally for you. Give to yourself as well.
3. Affirming daily that you are divine, body, mind, heart, and spirit. No matter what your mind says about who you are, you are divine.
4. Daily movement- whatever movement that is possible. Consciously feeling your body and knowing that you are alive.We see the miracle of life when we know we are here. Even if our body is sick, even if it hurts, we are here and we are alive in this moment and that is a miracle.

Make sure you have some form of daily practice that honors your divine self. Without honoring the divinity within you and around you, life can be mundane or overwhelming. The more that you connect with the divine point of it all, the more you will feel inspired in life.

Many Blessings to you all,
Liz