Today’s meditation (Every Choice Can Be Smart) focuses on the first concept from the S-M-A-R-T acronym. The letter S is for “stretching more than you can reach.”
This means not only being open to new ideas, approaches, and practices but being willing to explore them and try them out. Stretching more than you can reach requires curiosity about the world and a desire to go beyond the limitations of your present knowledge and experience.
This mental stretching prepares your mind for making smart choices in every circumstance that arises in your day, just as stretching before a workout prepares your muscles for whatever exercise you will be doing.
Day 9 – Every Choice Can Be Smart
“Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.” ~ Chinese proverb
OUR CENTERING THOUGHT:
“I make smarter choices every day”
OUR SANSKRIT MANTRA:
“Eem Hreem Shreem”
My reality is pure intelligence and abundance.
Happy Meditate
Journal Questions
Today’s meditation teaches us the value of stretching our ideas before making a decision. Write in your journal your ideas on what “stretching” means when it comes to making smart choices.
Practice mental stretching with a decision that you are currently working on. Perhaps it’s buying a car, in which case you could consider other cars or ownership options you may not have thought of before, and talk to people who may not be car experts, but who have a point of view that could be useful. Write down how opening up to new perspectives can help you make a smarter decision.
Reflect on how flexible thinking can keep your decision process fluid and not stuck behind an obstacle. Write down an experience you had where an apparent solution had hit a wall, but your mind didn’t stop and eventually came up with a creative way around the obstacle.
Reflect further on today’s experience.
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