Commitments You Can Make
by Merrill Harmin
Commit to doing all your meditations and other spiritual practices daily and commit to a strategy that will support you in winning that prize. (A goal without a strategy is a distraction.)
Commit to making your life a spiritual practice.
Commit to your physical well-being, such as eating and exercising healthfully. (And of course commit to a strategy toward that goal.)
Commit to being devoted to someone or some cause. (Devotion takes our attention from our ego-mind selves to our heart-divine Selves.)
Commit to becoming accepting, non-judgmental. Allow life to be as it is. (Consider a strategy of noticing all non-acceptance and letting it go.)
Commit to becoming more unselfish, acting more often without concern for personal gain. (Consider a dual strategy: Notice and let go of all selfish impulses and initiate more acts of pure kindness.)
Commit to spending more time with people and in places that nourish the heart, and spending less time with people and in places that stimulate just the opposite, such as negative people and un-peaceful places.
Commit to becoming a positive person. (Consider a strategy of noticing times when your thoughts are negative, complaining, worrying, etc, and letting each thought go.)
Commit to the simple proposition of doing good and being good. Make that the guideline for all daily choices.
Commit to watching yourself often during the day, getting outside yourself and just noticing what you are then doing-thinking-feeling. Without judging. (It's like watching thoughts during meditation.)
Commit to keeping alive a message that is healthful to you. (Like holding onto an affirmation.) Examples: "I am not the doer; I'm just an instrument." "All is OK, even when I don't see it that way." "I always did the best I could; if I could have done better I would have." "No one is to blame for anything; all always do the best they can." "I forgive myself and all others; I hold no regrets or resentments."
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