5 December 2021 — BREAKING PROMISES TO ONE’S SELF

It would seem that I value other people more than myself as I would never break a promise to someone else but am incessantly promising myself I will do certain things and fail to do them!!

The difference perhaps is that my promises to myself are based on hope and the desire to be different, to be ‘better’ etc. ‘Hope springs eternal’ the saying goes, meaning that it is human nature to find fresh cause for optimism and people point to the fact that despite the odds one never stops hoping that one might win the lottery!

The answer perhaps is to accept the way I am in each moment — TO LOVE MYSELF WARTS AND ALL and trust that change WILL come about. Change happens I believe when the mind realises that the present way of behaving/acting is seen to be causing suffering in some way.

ACCEPTANCE of course, is the KEY to change.

PONDER POINTS: On reading this I felt ….. I felt I could relate to it because …I felt unable to relate to it because ….