“at any moment, I can choose to start again”
I’ve been getting uncomfortably honest with myself this last month…I believe this is the key to implementing long lasting change – we first have to confront what’s really happening inside of ourselves, connect with ALLL of our parts (not just the ones we like – but also the ones we can’t bear to accept) and integrate them – this is the most liberating pathway to self empowerment.
We are entirely our own responsibility and everything is a choice
Self leadership and empowerment have been on my mind a lot lately. During my University semester holidays I’ve been unwinding from the adrenaline induced PUSH of the first Semester which I managed to get through relatively unscathed and I’ve had some time to reflect on how I could CHOOSE to lead myself better. This brought up the confronting reminder that actually, we are entirely our own responsibility and everything is a choice.
Coming back to baseline and realising that nobody else can actually make the changes you desire in your life, it has to come from you – and for me, that feels incredibly motivating. Nobody is coming to save you, no amount of reassurance or love or support from others can elicit a true internal shit – that’s something you have to embody, and it’s bloody uncomfortable.
Creating space to witness where you are holding yourself back
It’s so easy to blame external factors and other people and the world, sometimes without even realising it, but if you flip the script and change the frame and use everything as a mirror, it becomes much easier to find different paths, different decisions, different perceptions and perspectives which then transfer into different behaviours. Behaviour is all lead by emotion and emotion is all guided by thoughts. This is why meditation and self reflection is so important, to be able to create the space to sit with your mental stories and witness where you are holding yourself back and getting in your own way, where you could actually take more accountability for where you are dissatisfied in your life.
Meditation is about having the courage to sit with our thoughts and witness them
Meditation is not about getting rid of your thoughts, it’s about having the courage to sit with them and witness them, this is how we can start to break automatic thinking patterns and habits that make us feel shitty. My mantra is “at any moment, I can choose to start again” this saves me so much “sunken cost”, it saves me so much time and energy worrying about what I did or said yesterday or last week that I could’ve done better and allows me to let go, clean the slate and choose differently today. On this note, the latest upload into our online class library is the Self Empowerment Meditation audio and it’s launching this Friday!
Em x
Self Empowerment Meditation
This uplifting, mindset reframing meditation guides you into a place of personal power. Perfect for times where you are feeling a bit lost, stuck or at the mercy of experiencing tricky things that are “happening’ to you in your life. Link to meditation https://hostwellness.co.nz/studio/em-k-yoga-online-self-empowerment-meditation-class/
