[VIDEO] This 10-Minute Mindset & Meditation Practice

Builds POWERFUL Self-Love

Do you want to calm your mind & feel whole?

Then give yourself the love that you seek! Click the VIDEO to find out how.

Do you have 10 minutes?!

Then join me!

In today’s VIDEO, we apply the 5-Star VICTUS Mindset & Meditation (M&M) practice to calm our minds, feel whole, and practice loving ourselves more.

Give yourself the love that you seek.

In last week’s M&M video, we focused on how to remember and honor our Highest Self .

Today’s M&M video focuses on loving and accepting ourselves.

The two videos go hand-in-hand.

Because sometimes without one, we cannot do the other.

One of the greatest blessings that I’ve experienced since becoming a mom to two young kids is the magic of having the proper perspective. From the first time I held their tiny bodies in my arms, I was able to see the tremendous beauty in their existence. I could see not only their promise and potential, but the inherent worth that they had. From the instant they existed, they were worthy. Precisely as they were. Then and now. Not because of any accomplishment that they have or might one day achieve. They are not perfect, but they do not need to be perfect to be lovable and loved.

The same can be said for all of us. We are worthy precisely as we are. And we are lovable, no matter what.

But something strange happens when we experience negative emotions. When an obstacle or difficulty crosses our path, all manner of negative thoughts, self-criticism, and comparisons flood our minds. And, instantaneously, a chemical cocktail of hormones can stress our nervous system, put our minds and bodies out of whack, and cloud our perception for days, weeks, or even years.

When we over-identify with our emotions and thoughts, we can truly become trapped. We can mistakenly believe “something is wrong with me” and find many ways to put ourselves down. We might call ourselves “stupid,” for even the most minor of errors. We can get caught in cycles of seemingly unending rumination. And, if we’re not careful, our regret can transform into shame. We don’t just regret the mistakes that we’ve made, or plan how to be better next time; we tell ourselves that we’re “just not good enough.” We’re “not worthy.” Sadly, the more entrenched these thoughts become, the more we repeat this habit of negative thinking and feeling, the more these neural loops run on autopilot. The more they become our identity.

Practicing mindfulness is how we avoid this mental trap. Because mindfulness allows us to create space and separation between our thoughts/emotions, and who we are. Mindfulness allows us to cultivate inner wisdom. The more mindful we are, the more we can recognize that we are the watcher who can see our thoughts as they arise and fade. Meditation allows us to see how these thoughts come and go, and they are not necessarily true. Thoughts and feelings are no longer sticky. They’re fleeting. And it’s freeing to realize we don’t have to identify with any thought or emotion. Freedom is possible, for me and for you.

So let’s build the observer into our daily M&M practice.

Better yet, let’s make the observer the wisest watcher it can be.

This is why, in last week’s M&M Video, I call the observer our “Highest Self.”

By doing so, we can do more than observe. We can see with a critical eye, one that’s capable of assessing whether our thoughts and emotions are helpful or harmful to us. So that we can remember we’re in control. We get to decide whether or not we want to adopt a particular thought and emotion, or simply allow that thought and emotion to pass until it dissipates.

Yes, when we adopt the mindset of our Highest Self, we’re primed to parent ourselves from the best vantage point, the way a loving parent would guide us:

• A loving parent does not make a child wrong for experiencing negative emotions.

• A loving parent knows how to soothe a child, regardless of the negative emotions they’re feeling or thoughts they’re thinking.

• A loving parent does not label a child bad or wrong.

• A loving parent always remembers the potential that is in their child. Even when there are opportunities to improve.

• And a loving parent never forgets that their child is worthy of love and acceptance — always.

The sad truth is, as life gives us our growing pains, we can forget what this feels like. Assuming we were blessed to feel it at all, in the past. And we become accustomed to the inner critic that’s taken root in our mind.

When self-criticism becomes normal to us, it takes time to make love our new normal.

Which is why today’s M&M Video focuses on giving ourselves the greatest gift: time to love and accept our ourselves.

Time is necessary to practice this skill. To make loving and accepting ourselves the default.

All it takes is 10 minutes. To play the M&M and give ourselves permission to think any thought that we may have. To feel any feeling that we’re feeling. To acknowledge all of it. To soften and relax. To just be.

We must allow ourselves to be human, perfectly imperfect. And, most of all, practice radical acceptance. To love and accept every aspect of who we are.

There’s no need to remove all the negative thoughts and feelings that we have.

There’s no need to label ourselves, to say that we bad or unworthy.

It’s okay to acknowledge how our lives might be hard.

And it’s fine to have one or many opportunities to improve.

We just have to remember to love ourselves through the entire process. Because we’re worthy. No matter what.

I hope that these M&M‘s bring you peace today, and strengthen the love that you always have for you.

Until next time…

The M&Mer in me honors and respects the M&Mer in each of you.

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I’ll be posting more Videos with guided M&Ms, so that we can meditate together & entrain our brains to adopt empowering beliefs.

All it takes is 10 minutes a day!

Five minutes to entrain our brains with positive self-talk &

Five minutes of focused meditation.

That’s literally all it takes to build a sustainable M&M practice, to become the Best YOU that you can be:

Empowered.

Peaceful.

Centered.

YOU!

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