Lockdown 271

Lockdown Day 271 - 22 December 2020

I recently read a book about fasting from words. How it spoke to my being. Have you ever tried keeping criticism, judgements, complaints, sarcasm and gossip (CJCSG) to yourself? 

These words are just as harmful to self (thoughts and inner mantras) as they are to others. All of them are driven by lack of gratitude.

Without gratitude these words quickly cause you to habitually become negative about anything or anybody. Protecting your heart by building a wall of negativity has the opposite effect. Gratitude and negativity both affect your relationships with everyone around you. 

To fast from CJCSG, teaches mindful silence in conversations with yourself and others. If you can hold out for 42 days, you might experience how these words are substituted with different forms of gratitude and thankfulness. 

Also, you start seeing the good in others first. Beginning with yourself. To love yourself with no holds barred is probably the most difficult thing to do. To be grateful for how and who you are, just as you are is the start of changing your words, which then changes your perspective, ultimately changing your relationships, be it with your friends, family or the lady at the supermaket till. 

2020 Was different. So why not edit the presents and the hoo-ha and give yourself the gift of self love and your closest the gift of being quiet together. Kind words will follow. Feel the Morning Star shine from inside and watch your different Christmas bloom. 

"When wisdom speaks, understanding becomes attractive."

Proverbs 15:2a