Today's blog post came so super easy to me! I don't think I mentioned in yesterday's post that my theme for the week is practicing non-judgment. So, what's the opposite of non-judgment? If you answered LOVE then you get a gold star! Love, compassion, fearlessness, selflessness, kindness, gentleness...yep, all these things.
This morning I was in the middle of leading a compassion meditation practice with a therapy group at work when a client's watch alarm went off...yet again. In fact, it has been going off every 12 minutes for weeks! None of us can figure out how to shut that thing off! But it suddenly occurred to me in the middle of that meditation that we could use this watch alarm to our advantage and see it not as an irritation but rather as a lovely serendipitous event! Alarms, after all, are designed to remind us of something important...right?
So, the important thing for us to remember every 12 minutes we are at the day program is to practice self-love in that moment and say a positive affirmation--whether it was simply "I love myself" or "I am worthy" or "I am deserving of love like everyone else" or "I am awesome!" Every 12 minutes I am in a group with that particular client, we stop whatever we're doing to practice self-love for a moment and then return to whatever we were doing. I told the client--who apologizes profusely about the alarm--that actually I was very grateful for it and that he should apologize no more.
You can do this too! You have so many means of setting up reminders--through email, your phone, your microwave, an old-fashioned egg timer, your alarm clock--whatever means you decide to use, set up your self-love alarm clock today! Set it for whatever interval would be meaningful to you. Maybe it's every hour on the hour or every 3 hours. Maybe it's twice a day. If you are in a great deal of emotional pain right now, make it every 2 minutes! Don't hesitate--it feels amazing to give yourself love and you are always available to do it!
So what are your affirmations and what's your alarm interval? I wanna know!
DING DING DING! TIME FOR SOME LOVIN'!!
xoxoxo,
Brooke
Oh wow I had actually been thinking about setting two alarms on my phone, one at noon and one at 4pm to serve as reminders to practice a positive affirmation during my busy bee day. This just gave me the push to do that.
ReplyDeleteOne of the nurse trainers at my agency sets an alarm for noon that's a rooster to remind her of the shift in the day and she takes a moment to reflect on a good thing that's happened. When we're in training and it goes off she makes everyone do it too. actually kind of refreshing.
I love synchronicity!! awesome, Roz! Thanks for sharing!
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