Wellbeing & Meditation
PEOPLE often ask me: ‘How do I go from knowing what is good for me to doing what is good for me?’
This is a great question – and partly why I write this article. Each week, I share some ideas about different things that hopefully will inspire you to think differently, look at things differently, open your eyes to aspects of life you may not be looking at and take care of your wellbeing.
I am a big believer in ‘ little and often’. Any change I have ever implemented successfully has always been done gradually. Transformation is the result of consistent positive change.
Frustration is the result of inconsistent positive change. The difference between frustration and transformation is persistence and practice.
If we as human beings could easily do what is good for us, many industries would not exist. There would be no diet industry for one. We all know what it takes to lose weight or to eat more healthily. But for some it is relatively easy to do this and others not. We are all wired differently.
Some of us are more easily attracted to healthy food. Some are more attracted to unhealthy food.
We all have things that are relatively easy for us to do. Some people have little or no trouble maintaining a steady and healthy weight. Others love to exercise. Some love to read books. Others love to sleep.
Some love to meditate. Some of us are more positive and some love being with others. Some of us are naturally harder workers. Most of us naturally have several good habits that help us and a number of less than resourceful habits that hinder us and even promote dis-ease and stress in our lives.
Ultimately it is all about building the good habits, having minimum standards in all areas and putting yourself in the right frame of mind to do what is good for you.
Cultivating better habits in the areas of exercise,