Be Your Own Source
You are capable of anything .
Therefore be your own source.
There seems to be a damaging mindset in today’s society where people feel unworthy and undeserving of love and grace. I wonder who taught you that? Who told you that you were not good enough? Who told you that you do not deserve all that is amazing in this world and beyond?
I encourage you to lift your head up, straighten your spine and embrace ALL that is you.
There may be days when you’ve made mistakes, or you didn’t get what you wanted, or you’ve failed at a task even though you tried your hardest. DO NOT BEAT YOURSELF UP. Learn from those lessons. Try again. And please, dismiss these negative thought patterns.
Maybe its your family who speaks down to you. Maybe its religion. Maybe its your friends. I’d encourage you to muster the strength that’s within you and do away with any source of negativity in your life.
When you have low energy days, which we are apt to do because we are human after all, you have to tap into those things that bring you back to center. I’m not saying, “go to your happy place.” Happy is an emotion on one side of a polar extreme. I’m saying to go to the place of center where you just ARE. Just BE there. Find a CENTER place of BEING.
On my low energy days, after a few moments of self pity..which happen less and less because I know I’m awesome, sacred and HOLY, I tap into the things that bring me to a center place of being.
I find that I need to write when my mind is full of things and thoughts. I find that I need to read books on spirituality, ritual, customs and traditions. I find that I need to listen to music, watch a dance, see a play. I might need to go on a walk, bake a cake or just sit in silence without any voice of judgement and just drink a cup of tea.
Most of these things center around what I like to do and experience in life. Knowing what stirs my soul helps me find my way back during low energy bouts.
What stirs your soul? Where do you like to be? The answer could be a million things.
I’m not focusing on people or religion on purpose. Perhaps for some your family brings you to center or saying a prayer works. Do that if you want. Just know that’s not my focus. Because sometimes people may annoy the hell out of you and your religious ideology may not be cutting it.
I’m trying to get you to understand that the power of contentment lies already in you. You can be your own source.
I know this may be antithetical to some of your religions. I think those of you thinking that should go find a website that caters to your beliefs then. But for those of you interested in knowing the strength of your own power, I encourage you to explore the things that bring you to center. It can be an activity like listening to music. It can be a meditative practice like chanting. It can be, just being with yourself and not doing anything at all. The next step towards maintaining centeredness has to do with the patterns in your thought process and how that translate into your life but first, I find that when I am at a low energic state due to negativity, I first have to do the “Sheena things” that bring me to center. Dealing with my thoughts help me maintain center but that’s a post for another day!
Just know you are capable of anything .
Therefore be your own source.
While my focus isn’t on happiness, I like some of her suggestions in the article below.
I find this article featuring the Dalai Lama interesting.
“The root source of our happiness is the value of our way of thinking” ~ Dalai Lama
Moral Thinking is the Source of Happiness
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Again, this somehow fits in perfectly with my life right now. Strange.
I love what you are saying about getting back to center. Not your happy place! Not an extreme, just center. This is wisdom.
xo
Eco Mama
In psychology there is a term: locus of control. Those who have an external locus Believe that there are forces outside of their realm of control which determine what happens in their lives. These people often resort to catastrophic thinking and hopelessness. They rely on outside forces to act before they can. However those folks who believe that within themselves is the power to change and make choices have high self efficacy and are often more content with their lives.
Just a morsel. Miss you!