Start where you are.
It's the best advice, really. It's asking a lot to make someone who is used to eating 3 fast-food meals a day to immediately adopt an organic plant-based diet. So we start small. We weave a green smoothie bursting with vital nutrients and raw energy into their day, and allow them to eat the rest of the meals however they desire. It's interesting to watch the shift. They feel better from that one single change, and this starts them on a new trajectory towards better health and well-being. First fix the food- then watch in amazement how the other areas in their life unfolds.
Start where you are. I love that. It also applies in meditation, as Susan Piver writes:
This is something I'm still learning to grasp. Letting go of expectations, enjoying this precious moment, unattached from outcomes. It's been a process of teaching my spirit to not be defined by external constructs and labels. To be unattached from my annual income. To be unattached from the notions of being a homeowner or a mother or a wife. To be unattached from a certain number on the scale.
Because really, we have everything we need, right here, right now. We were born complete, with abundant love, joy, grace and creativity.
When you start where you are, sometimes you realize that where you are is just where you need to be.
When that happens, you can finally relax.
And be yourself.
It's the best advice, really. It's asking a lot to make someone who is used to eating 3 fast-food meals a day to immediately adopt an organic plant-based diet. So we start small. We weave a green smoothie bursting with vital nutrients and raw energy into their day, and allow them to eat the rest of the meals however they desire. It's interesting to watch the shift. They feel better from that one single change, and this starts them on a new trajectory towards better health and well-being. First fix the food- then watch in amazement how the other areas in their life unfolds.
Start where you are. I love that. It also applies in meditation, as Susan Piver writes:
In meditation, it is not helpful to be mad at yourself for the inability to be peaceful. Start where you are. Start with sorrow. Start with rage. Start with boredom/anxiety. Start with high hopes. Start with disappointment. Start with your very own body, breath, and mind. Your experience IS the practice. There is nowhere else to go. Within your own experience, the entire path can be found.
Because really, we have everything we need, right here, right now. We were born complete, with abundant love, joy, grace and creativity.
When you start where you are, sometimes you realize that where you are is just where you need to be.
When that happens, you can finally relax.
And be yourself.