Simply Blessed

There is this 21 day challenge I have heard about where you commit
to no complaining for 21 days.  I like the idea but I decided to put a little
spin on it for myself.  I would like to go 21 days or more being mindful of
the consciousness I offer the world and myself.  The concept is – with my
thoughts, beliefs, actions, deeds, decisions to ask if it meets the following
criteria:

1) is it friendly? (to me or to the world)
2) is it beautiful? (yum, love that one)
3) does it lend a sense of peace and harmony (again, for me and others)

With this other 21 day challenge you wear a bracelet as a reminder
to not complain and you switch it to the opposite wrist if you do complain.
I took a sparkly bracelet of mine and I am using that as a touchstone
reminder for the questions: is it Friendly, Beautiful, Peaceful.   I’m not going
to switch it to a different wrist if it didn’t meet the criteria.  I don’t plan on
approaching this like the friendship-beautiful-peaceful police because that
would obviously not be very friendly, beautiful or peaceful for me — yet
what a great practice of mindfulness this could develop into.  Along side
of that is the benefits I will reap with unconditional regard for self and others.
I think this could truly be a life changing process.  I can only imagine how
that would trickle down into a beautiful unfolding of daily life.  The idea of
which is just so lovely to contemplate – to live inside a friendly, beautiful
and peaceful universe of my own making.

[props to The Field Center for inspiring this idea]