Wowza! This is a good one...
Anything you do to overcome or prevent, causes a spotlight on the very thing you are wanting to overcome and prevent. You cannot take enough action to compensate for the Energy that you’re flowing. ~ Abraham-Hicks, Daily quotes 5/18/18
Some people seem to have it. They're really good at working out consistently, eating healthy, doing the right things for their health... and it seems natural and effortless for them.
Most of us are not in that camp. I certainly have never been the sort of person to be super motivated to work out. And hardly EVER have I had the willpower to stick to a food "regimen" for more than 3-4 weeks.
Never. EVER.
Last week I shared with you that in Family Therapy there's this cool tool we use called a Family Histogram.
Doing my own histogram helped me discover that my great-grandmother's forbidden love for my great-grandfather, their illicit affair, and their early deaths leaving my grandmother an orphan, had affected my life in ways I hadn't realized before.
Back in 2002, when I was doing my fieldwork to obtain my second Masters in Counseling from Columbia University, I learned to do an exercise that shed a TON of light on the patterns in my life.
One of the most enduring gifts I received back then was learning how to do a good family histogram.
Say, what?!
That's right. I want to invite you to toss 99% of your resolutions out the window.
Why?
More often than not, resolutions (1) arise from dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs, and (2) have an inherent "fix-it" approach.