Tag: Habits

Inktober

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Above is this year’s #inktober so far up to ‘day 17’.

This is my third year of doing the #inktober challenge and I absolutely love it. It’s simple, each day there is a prompt for you to create an ink drawing, although you do not have to follow the prompt, and then post your ink drawing to Instagram using the #inktober.

Art is one of my favourite things to do, and in recent months I have fallen away a little from my habit of doing a piece of art each day, even if it is just a quick pencil sketch. When I am doing my art I’m in the moment, focused and free from the mind and its distractions.

So I’m glad to be back in the grove and doing it each day. Like all things, small easy steps build a habit and when we are focused on the small daily routine, then the mind is silent as there is little risk. If we focus on big giant leaps, then alarms ring and the mind sabotages as its poor little ego is at risk.

Step by step keeps us focused now in the joy of doing not thinking about the ‘big’ outcome.

Seeing the trigger

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The more we realise at the first instance when we are reacting from the mind and it’s ego and step away, the less we can get pulled into reacting.

Once we go down the path of the reaction and the mind takes over, it’s like a powerful magnet that drags us further and further in and the harder it becomes to back down with others. Our ego will not want us to be wrong.

The moment the trigger is about to be pulled, just, physically and within, walk away and let go. Before the reaction takes hold.

Once this habit forms and it will take a long time, the more peace we will have within and with others. It’s all about seeing what triggers it and catching it before the gun goes off.