How to Master Discipline

Everything worth having is born from some inner sacrifice. We worship at the temple of celebrity, yet those with true talent treasure and conserve their life-force like a charm. They seldom drink and work draconian hours. That dedication is oft forgotten in the lights of fame. I know that my best journey is one of my own choosing. When my will chooses, the ego doesn't scream as loud. If my heart makes a commitment to eat raw or abstain from coffee, then those cravings and tremors become easier to ignore. It's all about the WHY, and what you are sustaining through your newfound choices. Self-love is the biggest beacon of good habit. It fills your cell to every pore and you forget your old ways. Keep it up. My cells are so full of green juice that I forgot my coffee. My heart is so full of song and prayer that complaints slip my mind. I hit a wall, a moment when the 'old self' wants attention. And this is where strength in stillness is to be found. It would be so easy to dash to the kitchen and make myself a coffee. Fuelled with countless excuses such as 'the menial one won't count'. And yet that backward action is so much bigger than it's triteness. It is a feeding of the old, a slip back into the ambiguity of complacent thought. My newfound habits and their sustenance have given me profound blessings. Yet such acuity is unusual to uphold. To function at this new level requires recalibration. To suddenly write where I used to watch TV. To dance when I would long me lying down. And to simply breathe and smile and be when my head screams for another chocolate bar. But yet, a voice awakens in me that is new and yet familiar. "Keep choosing the TRUE YOU", it firmly says. And nothing can be sweeter than this experience, a self I'm willing to share with the world that is content and free. And so, I breathe and smile and take another sip of water. I write my words, I tune inside and live. The bliss within me is so acute and profound that everything, all sacrifice is worth it. The true gifts of connection, joy and abundance are so worth me staying on my path. And so my friends, what are some new ways forward you're committing to? How can you redefine your habits, practices, rituals and routines in a way that serves you? I can't wait to hear from your comments below. With love, Alina xx