2024- Week 31 - My Practices 1 - LEGging

Why Struggle? Podcast w Barbara J. Faison

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2024 - Week 30 - My Practices - LEGging (LEGging)

This is an episode about my Learning Evolving & Growing

My Practices Part 1 - LEGging

Life is sooo much about what we focus our energy on. Dr. Wayne Dyer’s quote is one I remind myself of, “When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.” Yep, it’s also one of my guiding principles.

In episode 2024 - Week 24 I talked about my beliefs and life philosophies. One of them I call - Learning... Evolving... Growing (LEGging baby!) = PRACTICE.

I hope you enjoy this excerpt from my book/audio/ebook, Why Struggle? Life is too short to wear tight shoes called Learning... Evolving... Growing (LEGging baby!) = PRACTICE.

When I initially wrote Why Struggle? I was convinced that life was about discovering yourself.

I even named my publishing company In Search Of Publications based on that belief. The longer I live, the more I believe that we are here to discover, create and accept ourselves at each stage of life.

Aren’t humans lucky? We can make a different choice anytime we decide. We don’t have to have a “bad day;” we can choose to have a “bad moment.” Again, even a bad moment is a conscious choice. Notice the use of the words: choose, conscious, decide. I believe words are powerful, and I choose mine carefully.

I have always been very curious. I have always been a creative thinker. I have always enjoyed sharing information with others. My curious nature has propelled me down very interesting roads and for that, I am truly grateful. One of my traveled paths has been the road of meditation and creative visualization. For years I dabbled with quiet time and struggled with making it a part of my daily practice until 1995. I was so desperate for peace of mind that I pledged to spend at least 10 minutes in silence in the morning. In a few weeks, I was more relaxed and able to accept things I could not change. I tried many forms of meditation and began using visualization exercises to add more focus. I usually sense things or hear thoughts versus seeing images. The daily practice has helped me become calmer and more confident. Meditating daily greatly

changed my life. Simply put, meditation makes me a better person for me and for the people around me.

Taking a few minutes to sit and be still allows me to gain clarity and make better choices.

It is not during meditation that I receive my ideas; it is because of the daily practice of meditation that I am more open to sense, hear or feel something that may be helpful. The practice of meditating regularly opens you up to opportunities you might not see otherwise. When I wake up in the morning, I usually have tons of ideas running around in my head. I

know it is because I plant seeds at night before retiring and simply by doing meditation or deep breathing, I have a garden of ideas waiting for me to share them with the world.

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