What Is A ‘Daily Practice’? How Do I Start?
As I mentioned last week, a commitment to your personal growth and spiritual awakening requires daily practice. That’s why I like to call it a ‘Daily Practice’. If you want to reach a goal like playing a difficult song on the piano or guitar then you practice a little bit every day. You break it down into little pieces and you try to master each piece.
Spiritual growth is no different! If we desire to uncover our own true nature then we build habits like faith and gratitude. We learn to manage our mind and not allow our thoughts to control our lives. We learn to listen to our true nature through mediation. We learn to manage our body with breathing exercises. This is facilitated by having a ‘Daily Practice’. We wake up each day and we engage in using our tools. Over time, we feel a change happening. We feel more blissful!
It’s baby steps. Do a little bit each day. And just like Weight Watchers emphasizes, if we mess up one day we don’t beat ourselves up, we just recommit and start again in that next moment.
As time goes along, one day we realize that we’ve shifted from seeing life as leap frogging from problem to problem to experiencing life as an opportunity to love and be loved.
YOUR ‘Daily Practice’ is YOUR unique set of habits that you use on a daily basis to help you cultivate inner peace, joy, and calm. Mine has morphed over time but seems to always have some combination of the same elements.
Getting grounded
Journaling
Gratitudes
Affirmations
Inspirational reading
Prayer
Meditation
Breathing exercises
Movement (yoga, stretching, walking)
In my new series, On The Trail With Susan, we will begin to explore these elements! I am excited to teach you what I have learned to help you start or enhance your Daily Practice. The best way to start is to pick one of the items on the list above and commit to doing it every morning for at least 5 minutes. Do that for twenty-one days and you will feel a positive difference in your life!
Let’s get started this fall in Season One with Getting Grounded! (Fall series starts Nov 4, 2021!)
I will teach you why it is so important to get yourself grounded each day. Together, we will practice 4 grounding techniques that you will love!
