Toning up Your Mental Muscles!

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confusion is a common for many.  This dilemma often results from one not knowing and trusting their own mind.  Advice of friends, family, media all suggest what you should think or believe.  Not trusting one's self is often connected to this confusion.  The addiction to the approval of others and our many broken agreements we have made with ourselves erodes confidence in the faculties of our mind.   These faculties of reason, memory, will, imagination, intuition, perception begin to become dormant or utilized to argue for our inadequacy and dependency on the 'smarter' ones. 


Each one of us is gifted with these marvelous faculties to varying degrees, all of which can be strengthened through use.  Acknowledgement and appreciation of these gifts is a beginning.  Trust is built by keeping agreements; keeping agreements with yourself is a powerful beginning.  Knowing what you want, believing that you can and committing taps these mental muscles.  

 For today, trying asking yourself often, especially before you make a choice, “What do I know about this?”  Jen Louden