One Apple A Day #813 - I choose
I choose.
These words came up in my meditation, and just thinking about it makes me feel powerful.
Anytime I choose to do something, I bring all of me into it.
On the contrary, the thought of the things I have to do is enough to drain my energy.
One of the things that make my morning practices so powerful is that every day I choose to do them. I don't have to. If I don't feel doing them, I just skip them that day.
The choice is an integral part of the practice itself.
However, life is full of things we have to do.
Beside the computer on which I'm writing right now, lies my notepad with the list of things I have to do today.
Just looking at it makes me quiver.
Luckily for me, my friend Luca taught me an excellent little exercise that I can do when I'm facing something I have to do.
I just think about the thing I have to do. Then I answer a few questions, in my mind or writing somewhere.
What's so vital for me that makes me feel I have to do it?
What needs do I meet by doing it?
How will I feel once those needs are satisfied?
Then I rewrite the task I have to do as "I want to feel [list of feelings], so I choose to do..."
If you give it a try, let me know how it works for you.