It's All About Perspective

Holidays are a great way to relax and unwind from ones busy normal everyday life. But another thing holidays are good for, especially when visiting a new culture, is to put things into PERSPECTIVE. 

Seeing and experiencing different cultures around the world allows me to put my life in perspective. To make me realise I have it good! In fact, I have it GREAT! 

I do what I feel I need to do in order to live a great life - we're all responsible for the outcome and HAPPINESS of our own BEING and life.

Comparing yourself to others can make you feel less empowered and miserable, just makes you unhappy. Especially if you're comparing yourself to what you're not or what you don't have.

What if, you compared yourself to others in a way that would have you create more appreciation of your own life instead? Wouldn't that make you change perspective and realise that your world is probably a whole lot better than you thought it was?

The moment you find yourself feeling upset, unhappy, cranky etc because you have compared yourself to another or others. Stop. Think about all you have instead - that you have food on the table, a roof over your head, or maybe you live near the beach or the fact you can afford to go on that beach holiday - change your perspective! 

One thing I've also learnt is that if your parent, partner, friend or whoever else is comparing you to others - you don't need to worry what they think, that's their perspective. You have your own. What you think of yourself is all that TRUELY MATTERS!  :)

Appreciate the Little Things

Being on holidays in Mexico has given me a little bit more appreciation for the little things - the things we already have in Australia that perhaps many of us might take for granted, such as perfectly safe drinking water or beautiful clean beaches of Sydney.

In Mexico, it's advised not to drink the water. Not even the locals drink it! There are other countries in the world similar where the water is not necessarily safe to drink or to even brush your teeth! Yet how many of us are actually grateful or mindful for safe drinking water each day? Or other little things in our life?

I find, the more often I have appreciation or am grateful for the little things in my life, the more happiness that I feel and create.

What little thing could you be more appreciative of today? It sounds like such a simple little act, yet it can bring great rewards. 

Happy Dayz! :)

Be Kind to Yourself

I picked this beautiful inspiration from a past Deepak Chopra & Oprah meditation challenge.

Currently holidaying in Mexico, we've found the local people to be so friendly and welcoming. Do you find when people give and you receive, you can't help but want to give back?

We know the experience of feeling and receiving unconditional love, such as a parent to a child or a husband to his wife. But are we aware of when or how we give unconditional love? And what about unconditional love to ourselves?

There certainly have been moments in the past where my self-talk (you know, the voice inside your head or the conversations you have with yourself?), hasn't always been the most positive or loving or kind. 

I make a promise to myself to practice meditation daily, but what if I've skipped a day or even a few days in between practices for whatever reason? What would you do? Do you beat yourself up? Be hard on yourself or tell yourself you suck or are hopeless? Or can you be kind to yourself and just let the situation go and whatever is, just BE?

I firstly had to learn to create some self-awareness of when I might beat myself up or put myself down for not achieving or doing or living up to my own intentions or expectations. Creating that awareness then made me become aware that it's equally important to be kind to ourselves and allow ourself to make a mistake now and again. We are all humans BEINGS after all and imprefect in every beautiful way - we too need to give oursleves a little UNCONDITONAL self-LOVE. 

At the moment, my body is rapidly changing with my pregnancy. Now if I look at myself in a mirror and might say, OMG, I'm looking a bit fat/big/huge... if I do, I can quickly CHOOSE to stop myself from thinking that way, CHANGE my MINDSET and express some unconditional love towards myself - choose to love being pregnant and admire at how my baby is growing instead. Amazing what shift that makes. Might even put a smile on your face :)

The more we give ourselves a little self-love, the more we are also able to create more unconditional love to give AND feel/receive unconditional love back. If you're not feeling the love, why not start with you first? :) 

Imagine how much happier you could be feeling!