Thoughts...

Today I awoke thinking about thoughts! I know it sounds crazy, but what causes that sticking point in your life--at work, with your kids, with your significant other, with your success...It always comes back to your thoughts!  Think about it...when you get dressed in the morning in your favorite outfit and you are feeling great, suddenly a thought strikes you and you move from feeling good about yourself to the negatives--I'm too fat, I'm too skinny, I'm too me, etc, etc, etc...Why?  St. Paul says that we need to "take each thought captive", that we need to think on all that is "good, noble, true..." and yet, we let our minds take over and we begin to wallow in self-pity, self-deprecation...This is not what we were created for!

In the Toltec wisdom, the first agreement is to "Be impeccable with your word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."  This means its for the building up of yourself and others.....easy to do it for others...quite the challenge to do it for ourselves...

Today, I challenge you to take your thoughts captive!  When you start to think a negative, berating thought about yourself, stop and simply say, "I am an amazing creation with a wonderful task to complete while here on this earth! I have been empowered with all the things necessary to do this--I am good enough....I am enough...I am loved....I am whole...."  Let me know how this works!!

In utmost love and truth,

Krystal