#69 Monday Mindset - Have Tea With Our Demons

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Having Tea with Our Demons?

Having Tea with our Demons is a metaphor for practicing acceptance of our own Mistakes, Shortcoming, failures, poor judgements, or external circumstances. We may often try to fight these thoughts in an effort to change when things go wrong in life. Some of us may feel that we can self-deprecate ourselves into better actions and become self-critical and assign a sense of blame or shame around of our own limitations.

When we think of the phrase Silence the Enemy Within the question arises of how exactly do, we do this? Fighting these thoughts often only brings more awareness and focus to them through our reticular activating system and Where Focus Goes Energy Flows.

Learning to have tea with our demons is a practice of allowing our mind space to have certain thoughts, accept them as a part of our growth process and using those thoughts to understand the root cause. Understanding the root cause allows us to develop a plan of action to improve.

To improve our flexibility, we don’t force or fight our body into a new position. We gently allow the muscle fibers to expand one fiber at a time and consistently over time our bodies change. If it can happen in our body why can’t happen in our mind?

What rises to the surface in the moments when you feel the most overwhelmed, experience a feeling of impending doom for no good reason, or not enough in some way? What’s your go to self-criticism?

This is a pretty good indicator of our most prominent personal demon who could probably use a cup of Tea…