Micro Investing in Yourself

Understand what health is and whether you want to cultivate it. (If you don’t, this blog is not for you. Save some time and stop reading now).

Let’s use the Ayurvedic definition, articulated 3,500+ years ago:

samadoshahasamagnischa

sama dhatu mala kriyaha

prasanna atmendriya manah

swasthaitiabhidiyate - Ashtanga Hrdayam

A person is called healthy when the dynamics governing function (doshas), the digestive capacity and process, and body tissues are all balanced; wastes are eliminated regularly; senses and mind are clear, and the person has a feeling of luminosity and pleasantness deep within.

Now you have a clear rubric for assessing your own current state of health or dis-ease.

Cultivating health is not rocket science. Here’s something you can do right now to start.

Exercise:

1.    Look at the definition above and determine where your state of health leaves something to be desired. Are you having indigestion every afternoon? What about that persistent shoulder ache? Or maybe you feel dull in the morning even after a full night’s sleep. Jot down the areas you see need attention.

2.    Now write down 1 - 5 things you do regularly that you know do not support your health. They can be directly related to your health challenges or not. (These can include thinking or saying specific things)!

3.    Look at your list. Which one of these are you willing to trade for an action that does support your health?

4.    What is the easiest, simplest thing you could do that you know supports your health?

5.    Make your trade.

Congratulations! You have just started micro-investing in yourself. Make a commitment to return to this process in one week and check on your ROI.

Leave a comment below and let me know: how’s your health? What trade are you making? What ROI are you reaping?

Start Where You Are

This moment is the only moment of life we have to live. Our past exists as memory in the present moment. It doesn’t exist anywhere else.

Our future exists as imagination in the present moment. It is made of probability and potential.

Here, now, is where the body lives and breathes.

Here, now, is where action happens. Where we choose. What we choose in this moment creates the ground from which the next moment will arise.

Lest this type of reflection send you in paroxysms of anxiety and self-judgment (“Here? NOW? Oh God, what if I f*ck this up??”) , I invite you now to take a deep breath…and exhale. Go ahead. No one will even notice (except you; and since you happen to be the center of the known universe, it matters).

Your mental-emotional palate thus cleansed, consider that because this now moment IS the moment of life, here is precisely the place where you can effect change.

Life is the original “come as you are” party. You’re here! Congratulations. Now recognize there is nothing between you and moving toward what you want to experience in your life.

What is one step you can take toward what you deeply want for yourself? Do it now.

Start where you are.

Leave a comment below and let me know: What do you deeply want for yourself? What’s one step you can take toward creating that?