I promise that even if you just give up one of the things on the following list of 15 items, your life will change and you’ll start to feel more happy, healthy and hot in no time. Are you ready? Let’s begin.
You need to give up…
1. Approval seeking
The approval seeking cycle can run pretty deep in some people. Once you learn to see that what other people think of you is none of your business, then your life will begin to blossom and you can breathe a sigh of relief. Own your decisions, don’t second guess yourself and stand strong in your unique perspective on life.
Affirmation: I don’t need your approval. I am enough.
2. Blaming others
The ‘blame game’ can be a natural reflex for people that are always willing to point the finger and not assume responsibility for their role or involvement in certain events or (in most cases) family dramas. Blame is a toxic energy that harms your spirit and sticks to it like shit to a blanket. When you become aware of it and banish blame then you will feel so much lighter, happier and healthier.
Affirmation: I take responsibility for all of my actions.
3. Hanging onto the past
The inability to let go of your past is like keeping it alive in the present. Ask yourself if you want to lug around the same baggage year after year. Or do you want to live in the present moment where the magic happens?
Let it go.
Affirmation: I let go of my past and honour it for helping me to get where I am now.
4. Speaking with food in your mouth and eating too fast
This is a two-part mastication thing to give up. Poor table manners are not very hot. So if you have your mouth full of food then please refrain from speaking – this will make you look hotter than you could ever possibly look spraying burrito chunks all over the place as you are emphatically explaining the details of your day.
And two, slow the eff down and chew your food. All of the magical digestive enzymes that make it a hell of a lot easier on your stomach to break down the meal happen in your mouth before it descends down your gullet.
Affirmation: I eat with consciousness in order to nourish my temple.
5. Thinking you have to be perfect
You are perfect, just as you are. Yes, there are things you can do in order to improve the quality of your life but everything right now, in this very moment, is perfect.
Affirmation: In this moment, I am enough.
6. Judging and ‘shoulding’ on others
My Nana Mollie used to peel the banana from the non-stalk end – really it made no sense. When questioned she would say it’s ‘A way’ and not ‘THE way’ – meaning that there multiple ways to do things in life.
It is our own programming that makes us think we have things figured out better or more efficient than someone else. Actually, it’s pure arrogance to think we have the right to tell people how they should or shouldn’t behave.
Judgement of others is an inability to see that there are infinite perspectives and ways of doing things.
Affirmation: I accept others for who they are and keep my two-cents to myself.
7. Emotional manipulation
Ooh this is nasty. It can creep into your life as blackmail, silent war or most of all entitlement issues that make you feel like you’re allowed to play and toy with someone else’s feelings in order to get your own way.
“Change or I’ll leave you.”
“Grow up or it’s over.”
Ultimatums are very common ways people emotionally manipulate others. And they don’t work,
Sadly, we know the buttons to push within our loved ones and sometimes when we don’t feel very good about ourselves we know how to go in for the kill and push them in order to get our own way. Sometimes emotional manipulation is so well hidden you don’t even know it’s there.
Affirmation: I promise to remove any and all traces of being a sociopath for the greater good of the people around me – especially my loved ones.
8. Addiction to drama
Oh my god! OMG! Are you serious? Are you effing kidding me? She did what? Oh no she didn’t!
Yes life can be dramatic. As Shakespeare once said:
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
Being overly dramatic can have serious effects on your life. You get drawn into energy that doesn’t belong to you. You thrive off business that doesn’t belong to you. Lose the drama.
Affirmation: I refuse to unleash my inner drama queen, instead I choose to focus on energy that serves me.
9. Ignoring your intuition
You know, the gut feeling that tells you to follow your heart or avoid a certain path. You need to stop ignoring your inner whispers and listen to the voices (unless they’re saying crazy stuff). By following your intuition you all for things to manifest a lot more easily into your reality.
Affirmation: I honour and cherish my intuition.
10. Hiding your dreams from your loved ones
Is you vision board hiding under the bed, or behind the door? Own your intentions. You don’t have to trumpet them to the world with a megaphone, but not expressing your desires to your loved ones is a powerful affirmation to the Universe that you’re not ready to receive your wishes. Manifesting requires fearless bravery.
Affirmation: I am worthy of my goals, dreams, wishes and desires.
11. Feeling the need to be right
Very dear friends of mine introduced me to this question: Would you rather be right or would you rather be in love?
When you let go of your stubbornness and focus on agreeing to disagree you have just discovered the magic recipe for relationship harmony.
Affirmation: I would rather be in love than right.
12. Limiting beliefs, labels and statistics
You might have been told that the odds aren’t good, something isn’t likely to happen or that the statistics aren’t in your favour. Rise above it and hold the belief that anything is possible. Miracles happen every day.
Affirmation: I am a limitless being and anything is possible.
13. Control and safety
Seeking safety and control in the various areas of our life can be extremely cumbersome. It can show up as imbalance in relationships, weird obsessive behaviours and depression. Letting go of the need to be in charge all the time and comfortable can be the quickest path to liberation.
Affirmation: I release the need for control and it feels amazing.
14. Seeking happiness externally
Nothing can make you happy, you choose it from within. It’s not anyone’s responsibility to make you feel a sense of happiness.
Affirmation: I am responsible for my own happiness.
15. Not jumping out of your comfort zone
Feel the fear and do it anyway. Just jump.
Affirmation: I am open to new adventures in my life.
