It can be easy to get caught up in believing that things are terrible, that there's no hope or that things can't get better/worse than they are but in any moment we each have the chance to start over.  In that moment the brain responds best to simplicity, to keeping it small.  You may have heard the term "tiny baby steps".  There's a reason why this idea has surfaced in the collective conscious.  The brain, when faced with change, physically reacts because it has to 'do something different' and it prefers to do things automatically.  It has so much to do in order that we function well: heartrate, breathing, temperature, hunger, thirst, impulses, action, reaction, instincts, procreation.  Our brain does so much that we are usually not aware of and when we throw something new into the mix, it has to juggle and adapt.  The smaller the step we add, the more easily our brain assimilates the new thing and this gives it the opportunity to keep humming happily along at the same time.

A small thing might be something as simple as noticing my own thoughts or feelings; noticing energy in my body; seeing or hearing something a different way.   Mindfulness is what creates change for the brain and there are many opportunities in life to create more mindfulness.  When I reflect I see how much I once considered these opportunities traumatic because my minds ability to cope was overwhelmed.  The shift in awareness was so big that my mind/ego thought it would not survive intact.  When that happens, the ego believes it is facing its Armageddon, and that it is dying a death it can neither escape or fathom.  This can seem to happen once in a lifetime or hundreds of times each day.  It actually happens in each and every moment as one moment is all that really exists.  In this moment, we are born to our egoic self and we die again too, to be reborn into this new moment all over again.  Like Groundhog Day we get to do it all again, over and over until we have created enough tiny baby steps to make a lasting difference.  We have awakened the sleeping giant within and ignited our prefrontal cortex to enable higher functioning. This change in itself is gargantuan and can feel to the mind/ego a bit like the 'Big Bang' or like the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.  

We each reach this holocaust of our minds, this time of pruning and pairing in order to awaken more fully into who we are.  We each react in different ways to it and we will each judge others for the way they act, react, cope and function.  Eventually we will see that we and everyone around us is doing the same thing, the same way and that it's only our own perception of everything that is changing.  Groundhog Day only ends when we wake up to the true beauty we don't yet perceive in ourselves and our world.  Learning to love unconditionally whatever we perceive is one way we can wake up and truly enjoy what is.

Today I choose to take one more small baby step towards loving myself unconditionally.  I'm on day 14 of using my affirmation: "I trust myself" and each day of that has given me one more thing to accept about me in support of assimilating this 'truth' into my awareness.  What one step will you choose today to move a little closer to Unconditional Love for yourself?

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