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Using mindfulness to help you feel good enough? This is what you are missing
As someone who got started on her mindfulness journey out of a desperate attempt to fix the feelings of not good enough I carried with me into my life and relationships, the idea of mindfulness, that I was simply supposed to accept negative thoughts and feelings, didn’t make sense.
I wanted to change those feelings and thoughts, not offer them a place in my head and my heart.
I wanted to be different and do differently not accept where I was.
Mindfulness was supposed to make my life better, not keep it at a stand still.
All of these barriers to BEing in the moment with myself as is, good enough, stemmed from a misunderstanding of how a mindfulness practice could create change in my life and help me feel better about myself.
This is what I was missing:
Mindfulness + Action = Intentional Change
In other words, my mindfulness practice was the start of making change in my life, NOT the end of it. It was through the subsequent actions I took, grounded in love and acceptance that actually gave me the power and space I needed to make changes in my life.
To that end, if you want to make changes in your life rooted in self love whether those…
