dailydatewithgod

I am not someone who typically goes easy on herself.  I have been told more than once that I am harder on myself than others.  I have ideas as to where that comes from but at this point, it doesn’t even matter.  It is something I work on giving over to God all the time.  It is not inherently bad to make sure you are on top of things or not letting yourself get away with slacking in life, but taken to the extreme it is hard to breathe.  Not breathing is not being alive. Making room for some ease and self-compassion is one of the daily lessons God works with me on.  Looking for the cinches in my life which are evidence of my moving forward and living more from the heart are what I learn to keep my eyes on.  It is not about being without messiness or mistakes.  It is about seeing them and choosing to do differently next time.  I look at the situations in my life that I handle with so much ease they are a cinch and require very little thought.  The cinches where my connection to my heart is what is guiding me.  My mind sees it as a cinch because it does not require a lot of thought.  This does not necessarily mean one is not present, it is more about what energy one is present with.  When my heart opens and guides my vision, it is a cinch to remember what I like about someone.  When my heart is in the driver’s seat, it is a cinch to let it go when my ego is bruised by an interaction with someone who was not in his or her heart.  If I reflect at the end of day on the number of cinches of the heart I experienced, I can see how much I have opened and grown into being more of the truth of who I am.  Cinches are the little whispers of evidence in my life that there is a reason to continue to practice ease and compassion for myself and others.