Mind
Reflect on your intention: What do you want to gain from your self-development practices, and how does your mind contribute to or hinder your ability to achieve it?
Principles to Choosing Practices
Nothing to Prove
Remember that you have nothing to prove to anybody, not even yourself. This is a self-reflective exercise that is supposed to bring harmony.
Be a Child
Choose something that challenges you and start looking at it as if you were three. Everything is exciting at that age, albeit sometimes scary.
Everybody is Creative
We all have activities that we do just because they lift our spirits. We do not even need to be good at them; just enjoy them and be inspired.
A bit of Inspiration
Any of these suggestions or other activities you can think of that can contribute to an embodied engagement with the mind. The idea is to disidentify with the continuous internal chatter that prompt us to believe that we are not good enough and that we always need to do more. It is true that to continue to grow, we have to work at the edges and challenge our abilities, but we can do that without getting attached to the idea of perfection. We try, and if things do not work out we can move on or try again. In this dimension of growth, we challenge ourselves to get out of our comfort zone in ways that are meaningful and uplifting. If you like control, try activities that force you to take yourself less seriously; if your creativity diverges into procrastination, try bringing small tasks to fruition. If you are already balanced, congratulations! There may be something that still has a bit of an edge. Explore the edges and expect the unexpected, but above all, trust the process and have fun with it.
Practices: study, write, draw, sew, bake, dance, act, code videogames, record podcasts... feel inspired...anything goes.
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