dailydatewithgod

It goes without saying that change is inevitable. We can choose to see that as a burden or a gift.  Depending on the day it might be both. The most fundamental and powerful gift we can give ourselves is to change our perspective.  We often want this for others, usually, so they will see things our way.  However, tapping into the capacity to make our own little tweaks empowers us to flex the muscles of breathing through changes and navigating potential fears that arise. Perhaps you have experienced a time when you resisted a change because all you could see are the negative potentials stemming from it.  As you look back now, you realize you did not know the positive potentials which were also present. Being open to tweaking our perspective gives us the grace to walk through life and not get so hooked by fear of the unknown.  This is not necessarily easy given our biological imperative for survival which keeps us on the lookout for what might go wrong. One tool I have learned through my daily dates with God is making little tweaks which slowly lead me into releasing the possible fear that seems like it wants to grip me and cripple my power to choose my attitude. A powerful practice for me is acceptance.  When I am not accepting of a person, situation, feeling, or whatever and it seems like miles of grueling work to get to a place of acceptance, I have to start with a tweak.  The tweak is to acknowledge that I am not accepting at this moment. But, I can accept that I don’t accept right now.  It is a simple tweak coming from a place of acknowledgment which emanates from my heart.  It can quiet the loud judging mind which wants to condemn me as not being spiritual enough to be in a place of acceptance yet. The tweak of accepting my non-acceptance makes breathing room for accepting me exactly as I am in this moment.