A gorgeous day in beautiful Sedona. I was playing tennis today as I do a few times per week. Tennis, like most sports is filled with activities that are both successful and sometimes not so. When I play without a lot of mind chatter the game appears to flow and time seems to go slower. When I get caught up in the score or when I am playing particularly poorly; I create tension and a not so joyful experience.
Playing tennis also reminds me that I am always doing the best I can. Just as all of us are doing the best we can at every moment. I believe we operate from a diminished perspective. In each lifetime we make choices that are limited by our knowledge, experience and judgments. We use words like “should have and if only, we could have done it better.” If we had more time, experience, education, more loving parents, the government, the weather, etc. We blame others for our misfortunes.
And most of us are harder on ourselves than anyone else. We become our harshest critics. This self judgment can create a self imposed energy barrier that can trap us and deplete us. When I get to this place in my life I like to return to a sports metaphor of sorts. If I am out shooting a basketball and trying to make a basket and I miss my target. I don’t become all unglued and look for a source of blame or lack of experience or my genealogy or parenting. I simply pick up the ball and shoot it again. And eventually if I shoot it enough times I begin making many more than I miss.
So if you find yourself in a place in you life where things are not going quite as planned. Stop, take a couple of deep breaths and remember this simple sports metaphor. “Just pick yourself up and start all over again” For in truth, you are an amazing, gifted, wonderful, loving being of light who has come here at this time to shine! And you don’t have to be wealthy, famous or physically gorgeous. You are you, always doing the best you can each and every time without exception. Pause and enjoy your magnificence! From my heart to yours, Thomas