Morning Pages - Day 2

It takes somewhere around 21 days to create a habit. So in theory after 21 days of this morning practice I will be in the habit of writing and it will become anchored into my habituated mind.

I'm a great believer in testing theories personally, I demonstrate new paradigms of thought by walking my talk in life, that way when I teach, I come from a deep place of knowing that it can work if a person is ready to change and is willing to do the practice.

We are Spiritual beings having a temporary human experience. I think of it like our bodies are a suitcase for our Spirit. Our bodies are the mechanism by which the true us can be transported through our journey on the planet. We need both parts, the physical and the spiritual, otherwise we wouldn't be human.

Have you ever stood at the luggage conveyer at a big airport and watched all the different type of cases and bags go round. Some look very similar, but have particular unique marks that allow the owner to identify them, some are strikingly different with bright colours, stickers and ribbons. Others are pristine and immaculate and look like they have hardly left the cupboard, others look like they have done many thousand mile journeys and are patched up, scuffed and battered.

Now do you see why I call our bodies suitcases? Personally my suitcase has done quite a few miles, is only a little scuffed and has had some major repairs over the years.

The one problem about suitcases is that when you look at them, you have no idea what is inside. We might have an opinion about the contents based on what we see on the outside, or what material the bag is made of, but ultimately we don't know until we stop and look inside.

I heard a quote once, can't remember the origin and may not have it exact, "low self esteem is created when we compare our insides to someone else's outsides."

A minister I know says, "the only sin is compari-sin," but I still sometimes find myself lost in a moment of comparing what I know is going on in my head with an appearance I see before me. It is in that moment that I return to the awareness that I really have no clue what is going on for that other person. I have found that remembering does get easier to do the more I practice.

We all live in our suitcases, sometimes trying to pretty them up so that no one will discover the mess that is inside. But what if we stopped worrying about the outside and started working on the inside, taking time with ourselves to throw out the contents that no longer fits who we are today, tidying up the stuff that just needs a button sewn on or a hole patched and then appreciating all that we have and all that we are, knowing that we are enough, regardless of how much we still want to grow and become better. We are Spiritual Beings, our essence is that of Divine Perfection.

Today I choose to release all comparison with others, I turn within and know that I am enough, I release all thoughts of less than or lack and I celebrate all I have with deep gratitude.

In love. J x