You Are What You Practice

It's WAY COOL. Did you know that you already have a "Practice" that you're doing each and every day? People often say to me "I don't have time to practice, I'm way too busy." You know what I say to them? You already are practicing.
You Are What You Practice

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Over the past couple of years, what’s been happening for me is MY LIFE is becoming my practice.

It’s WAY COOL. Did you know that you already have a “Practice” that you’re doing each and every day? People often say to me “I don’t have time to practice, I’m way too busy.” You know what I say to them? You already are practicing.

Someone once said “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” To practice or not to practice is NOT the choice.

It’s a practice 🙂 What you are already doing each and every day IS your practice.

We become what we practice! The question is WHAT IS IT you are practicing? Think about that for a moment.

Are you practicing being too busy, tired, broke, irritable, stingy, fearful, worried, and concerned? Or are you practicing being peaceful, present, joyful, inspired, rested, optimistic, abundant, friendly, curious and open? Believe it or not, this IS a choice you’re making and a practice you’re engaging.

The more you practice something, the better you get at it, for better or worse! I cannot overemphasize how important it is to consciously choose a long-term practice for your personal transformation.

It’s through our practices, day in and day out, that we can best cultivate our container for the fullest expression of Life Force Energy.

Note, the practice of maximizing your ability to partner with Life Force Energy is not done overnight.

Then each time you practice, over and over again, you deepen that groove.

We practice seeing the good in everything, going with the flow, transcending subconscious limiting beliefs, embracing the contraction and low energy times in life, and joyfully expressing and creating authentic life purpose.

All of these, over time with practice, eventually make up the natural path for divine energy flow in your life.

For your practice to have deep transformational value it must happen independent of what is going on in your life.

If life rules you, you will soon stop your practice.

If you engage your practice independent of the conditions in your life, or ideally along with the circumstances and conditions of your life, you can persist.

A formal spiritual practice engaged each day is one of the best ways to efficiently cultivate our Partnership with Source and those characteristics of life we most deeply want to be and experience.

The most important thing is to consciously create and engage a transformational practice.

Just make a list of the things you see you are practicing each day.

Are you peacefully productive each day, or often running and rushing from thing to thing? Are you waking up with joyful anticipation of the day, or a sense of dread? Do you smile and make eye contact with people you see, or do you look away and avoid them? All these things are a practice and create our experience of being alive.

Now, consciously choose at least one, and maybe several, NEW practices you are going to engage each day.

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