A Shift to Love

Kindness

Kindness

Kindness

 

K

indness is not coming home after a hard day of work and turning on the TV, plopping down on the couch and downing a tub of ice cream when you committed to meditating.

The voices will say, “Oh you deserve it! Take a break! Stop being so hard on yourself…”

If you buy into their game and go along with their bad advice, you’ll later be beaten up for listening to them — especially when your meditation practice is gone, and you’re struggling again.

That doesn’t mean you can’t come home, turn on the TV, plop down on the couch and have some ice cream.

You just do it consciously.

Mindfully, compassionately and with full awareness.

In this way, you create integrity in your life. You stop being led around by the nose by those unhelpful voices.

When you consciously create and keep your commitments, you are proclaiming that you are in charge of your life and that you are a trustworthy steward of it.

That’s the ultimate kindness.

 

In lovingkindness,


If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, Living the Zen Life: Practicing Conscious, Compassionate Awareness (Volume One).

If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, Living the Zen Life: Practicing Conscious, Compassionate Awareness (Volume Two).

If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, Living the Zen Life: Practicing Conscious, Compassionate Awareness (Volume Three).

If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, A Shift to Love: Zen Stories and Lessons by Alex Mill.

If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, Meditation and Reinventing Yourself.

If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, The Zen Life: Spiritual Training for Modern Times.

 


  Alex Mill trained in a Zen Buddhist monastery for nearly 14 years. He now offers his extensive experience to transform people’s lives and businesses through timeless Zen principles.

He is the creator of three powerful 30-day programs, Heart-to-Heart: Compassionate Self-Mentoring, Help Yourself to Change, and Your Practice, as well as the online Zen meditation workshop, Taming Your Inner Noise (now offered as The FREE Zen Workshop).

Alex has also written seven books on Zen awareness practice. The latest are entitled A Shift to Love: Zen Stories and Lessons (Get it for FREE here) and the 3-book series Living the Zen Life: Practicing Conscious, Compassionate Awareness.

He is a full-time Zen Life Coach who offers guidance and life-changing support to his private clients worldwide. Book a call.