Sitting With Ourselves

This is a present moment practice that allows us to connect more deeply with all aspects of ourselves. From this place we can notice all of our inner stirrings, our thoughts, emotions, body sensations and even the movement of our energy. As we become more aware of ourselves, we also become more aware how the energy around us is affecting us and how to best navigate those affects.

We often are tempted to turn this practice into one of overthinking, analyzing, judgement and planning. It is not meant for any of these things. Instead the practice becomes the most effective in supporting us when we are able to sit with ourselves and observe without a need to judge or react. We move from judgement and a need to change what is, to a place of curiosity.

Curiosity opens us to exploring why what we are experiencing is and how we are reacting to it. From this place of openness we can express how we feel and decide where to focus our energy in order to allow the experience to best serve us. When we judge what is present we close down the opportunity for healing and growth. The signal that we are doing this is usually frustration or feeling hopelessly stuck.

Letting go of judgement sounds like a simple task, however we have been programmed since birth to judge and be judged. Almost everything we do is based on some sort of judgement about whether something is good or bad, valuable or invaluable etc. Sitting with our programmed judgments is usually a great place to start. Notice when you are judging, label it so that you are conscious of it, and then allow yourself to be curious about it.

Where did this judgement come from? What do I believe about this particular subject? How do I feel when I am judging this? How do I feel when I am being judged as this? Do I believe that I am or am not this or is it something that I feel a great deal of resistance towards? Why? How does or has this judgement served me in the past? Does it continue to serve me? Am I ready to let it go? Is there anything else that I need to know?

When you create space and allow yourself to relax and not need a particular result, the answers will come to you easier and easier. It’s okay if you don’t always get an answer just allow your awareness to move to the next thing.

The most important part of this process is to relax and allow whatever happens to happen. Letting go of expectation allows us to relax and trust that whatever results from the amount of time we spend will be exactly what we needed.

This practice allows us to connect deeply with ourselves, learning to first love and trust ourselves, and then to hear our inner guidance in a way that creates greater alignment and expansion.

As we expand our practice we move more and more into present moment living and a new level of creating. We become much more in control and purposeful in our creation, because not only are we no longer wasting our energy in the past or future where nothing can be done, but we are also creating our own energy from a place of self love and clarity and this changes our vibration and expands our possibilities!!

Sitting with yourself can look like a lot of things including:

-Deep breathing exercises

-Meditation

-Time in Nature

-Journaling

-Sitting Quietly

-A bath or shower

Be open as you look for the right tools. Be gentle with yourself, this may be very uncomfortable at first, especially if you have been avoiding trauma.

It can be helpful to remember is that you are either acknowledging it and giving yourself the opportunity to grow or ignoring it and allowing it to silently affect you. Either way is uncomfortable, even painful, one promises a new way of Being.

If you feel the value in this practice but find yourself struggling to get there, Crystal Clarity offers a Creating Your Practice 4 week Package that helps you find the right tools and apply them on a regular basis in order to create the motivation you need. You may also find that Personal Guidance is helpful, you can use this time to reflect on what is or isn’t working, to ask questions or to just get an impartial perspective!! We have some great Social Distancing Specials on all Services.

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Many Blessings of Complete Self-Acceptance,

Crystal*