Holding Out Your Cup
In yoga the other day the instructor said to us as we lay on our backs in the resting pose, Now just receive…lots of benefits from this resting place. They make it sound so simple, so natural. Just receive.
Instead of just receiving we as parents, women, human beings fix, control, analyze, doubt, agonize over, get all guilty and make it oh so complicated.
When was the last time you received a compliment without going into a long excuse or explanation instead of just saying thank you?
I see these little gifts as moments of opportunity for a free re-fill.
When my husband says, You look good or a friend says, I like that idea I am going to practice simply saying thank you and receiving the benefits of being acknowledged and appreciated.
When was the last time you received the gift of time and filled it with busyness?
I also see these moments of opportunity, a time to hold out your cup for a free re-fill.
When my kids are sleeping, like now, I am going to seize the moment and exercise, write, breathe, rest and reap the benefits, standing strong with a full cup.