A few things were key for me when my awareness expanded around the concepts of enjoyment, play and creativity. Here are a few tips that really helped me open my heart and free my soul.
CREATE THE SPACE
Look at your schedule and see how you can create tangible space. What can you let go of? What task/responsibility is no longer serving you? Think about what you would rather be doing with your time and energy. Then write down small action steps that you feel inspired to do in order to achieve these desires. Schedule them into your routine. Listen for how your heart feels.
PUT HEALTHY BOUNDARIES IN PLACE
Always be willing to disappoint others before being willing to disappoint yourself when it comes to the space you create for yourself. Full disclosure… this may put you in situations where you have to practice speaking your truth. And then you may start to become curious about what your truth even is. In time you will learn valuable things about yourself and others throughout these hard conversations. As long as you always speak from a loving place you are not responsible for how the other party receives the information. Do not feel guilty for the time you create for yourself. To honour yourself is to love the shit out of yourself first.
HONOURING YOUR SELF WORTH IS MAKING YOURSELF AS IMPORTANT AS OTHERS.
Take a look at yourself from above. Watch yourself. Observe. What patterns do you notice where you have expectations on yourself, others or even Source. Expectations of who you have to be, or why you have to do something. Expectations of how others should fit into your values and expectations of how you should fit into other people’s values. Expectations of who God is and what “he” should be doing for you or what “you” need to be doing for him.
Expectations. Create. Blocks. When we approach life from this perspective we create layers of limited versions of ourselves which make it even harder for us to hear what our actual truth is. We may over extend ourselves and end up voluntarily giving up our most sacred, most valuable time for ourselves. Over time, these patterns make us feel depleted, unworthy, tired.
Now is the time you will take small steps forward towards feeling lighter, freer, playful, creative. You have made the space to explore what you enjoy, you have honoured your sacred time with healthy boundaries, and have chipped away at the layers that have grown over your past.
IN THIS SPACE YOU WILL FIND MORE MOMENTS OF PRESENCE, JOY, INSPIRATION AND LAUGHTER ALLOWING YOU TO FEEL OPEN AND FREE TO ALL THE GIFTS OUR UNIVERSE HAS TO OFFER.
