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Quit stabbing yourself!

8/17/2019

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I read something posted in a Facebook group the other day that immediately caught my eye. Even though I wasn’t tagged and hadn’t spoken to that person in months, within a matter of seconds, I made the entire post about me. 
And this is how incredibly creative my mind is. 
 
I reasoned (in seconds, mind you) that this person had thought about me specifically, gotten angry, posted this post, in hopes that I would see it, and that I would read it. And then I would feel the bad vibes and become emotionally affected by it.  

And sure enough, there I sat, for approximately 1.5 minutes, emotionally affected by something that was NOT about me.
 
Even typing it, it sounds ridiculous doesn’t it? My teacher Anand put it best — I was so grateful to find this nugget in my notes on what he says about taking things personally:
 
“Taking judgements personally is like watching people walk around with knives, and taking someone’s knife and stabbing yourself with it.” 
 
I would add that we tend to give the bloody knife back to the owner (energetically) and thus, surrender our power to rise above the situation.


Did I just talk about stabbing in the Yoga Hive newsletter? You get the idea. 

What makes this even more potent is the Full Moon which happened at 12:29am this morning, Mountain Time. I subscribe to an astrology newsletter called Mystic Mama, and she writes this incredibly poignant paragraph for today's Full Moon in particular: 


"It's easy to focus on others, but if we keep our focus on our Self and do what we feel moved to do, we create space for others to be informed and inspired by our actions and be led by their own free will, rather than through any kind of pressure or intimidation.This Aquarius FULL MOON encourages us to witness what is being illuminated and unhinge from the ties of public opinion to continue to unfurl who we truly are."

 
Join me this week in being acutely aware of judgements we’re taking personally… and if we can’t stop our creative mind, just NOTICING it is a great first step! Second step is meditation. Third step is meditation aaaaand fourth step? You guessed it. Meditation. 
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