47 ~ How Daily Reflection Leads to Aligned Choices (Tool Box Edition)

Do you know if your current daily activities align with your desires?

Join us on Desire is Medicine as  we lead you through a clarifying meditation.  By reflecting on the past 24 hours, you'll explore how your actions either nourished or drained your energy, providing you with valuable insights into making choices that either are in alignment or not. This gentle exercise fosters awareness and encourages you to observe your habits without judgment, allowing you to see their impact on your physical and emotional well-being.

In this episode, we guide you through breathing exercises and mental timelines to revisit your latest activities. From your morning ritual to your evening wind-down, discover the subtle nuances of how each activity affects you.

This practice is part of a broader Tool Box aimed at helping you create space for what you genuinely desire. Reflect honestly and gather the wisdom needed to enhance your future experiences, all while cultivating a mindful approach to how you spend your time and energy. Tune in and take the first step towards a more fulfilling life.

Explore the topic of energy accounting further by listening to episode 26, How to Have More Time and Energy.

Chapters

• 0:08 Exploring Desire Through Meditation
• 4:09 Reflecting on Yesterday's Moments

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:08

Welcome to Desire is Medicine. We are two very different women living a life led by desire, inviting you into our world.

Speaker 2: 0:16

I'm Brenda. I'm a devoted practitioner to being my fully expressed true self in my daily life. Motherhood relationships and my business Desire has taken me on quite a ride and every day I practice listening to and following the voice within. I'm a middle school teacher turned coach and guide of the feminine.

Speaker 1: 0:36

And I'm Catherine, devoted to living my life as the truest and hopefully the highest version of me. I don't have children, I've never been married. I've spent equal parts of my life in corporate as in some down and low shady spaces. I was the epitome of tired and wired and my path led me to explore desire. I'm a coach, guide, energy worker and a forever student.

Speaker 2: 0:58

Even after decades of inner work, we are humble beginners on the mat, still exploring, always curious. We believe that listening to and following the nudge of desire is a deep spiritual practice that helps us grow.

Speaker 1: 1:12

On the Desires Medicine podcast. We talk to each other, we interview people we know and love about the practice of desire, bringing in a very important piece that is often overlooked being responsible for our desire.

Speaker 2: 1:25

Welcome listeners to another episode of Desire as Medicine. Today, catherine and I are very excited we're going to be bringing you another toolbox episode. Toolbox episodes are mini episodes that help you play with desire, and today's is actually linked to another episode that we did another toolbox, episode 26. If you want to refer back to that later, which is about how to have more time and energy, and in that episode we take you through an activity that helps you track how you spend your time and energy, and we also have a really cool spreadsheet linked in there, which we think is super cool. So you can go back to that another time.

Speaker 2: 2:10

But for now, we want to go deeper into this. Because we thought it was so important. We're going to be taking you through a meditation today that will help you reflect on how do you spend your time and energy. Specifically, in the last 24 hours, how did you spend your time, how did you spend your energy and was it draining for you or was it generative Meaning, did it give you energy? Now, why are we doing this again? Now, why are we doing this again?

Speaker 2: 2:43

Because when we know how we spend our time and energy, it can help us make informed, aware choices. We can actually have more of our desires, we can make space for them because we know how we are spending our time and energy and if it's draining or generative for us and we want to have more of our desires. So why not spend a few minutes and get into reality with how we're spending our time and energy? And sometimes that can be skewed. We can look back and it can be a little bit distorted. We don't really have an accurate view of how we spend our time and energy, and so this will give you a little bit of a drop in, so you can be in reality and just noticing it. No judgments, we're not trying to change anything, we're just going to notice. So with that, I'm going to turn you over to my lovely co host, catherine, who is going to be taking you through a beautiful meditation so you can just sit down wherever you are, get relaxed and enjoy.

Speaker 1: 4:03

Thank you everyone. Take this time to take a deep breath in and really gently, slowly exhale with every inhale and exhale just relaxing deeper and deeper into your body, feeling your chest rise and your chest fall, your belly fill and your belly release, bringing all your attention and all your power back to just this moment, here and now. There's nothing that needs to be done, nothing else you need to think about. You're just here, fully present now, and with every breath, you feel yourself dropping in further and further in your body, feeling yourself honing in your attention further and further, feeling yourself honing in your attention further and further. The more you bring your attention to your body, the more relaxed you actually become, feeling areas where your muscles are relaxing, where your breath is deepening and even slowing down, becoming even more aware of where you are in this moment and where you have been. So, with this next breath, take a deep breath in and think back to yesterday morning. 24 hours ago, you woke up to a brand new day, and what was the first thing that you did? Did? Potentially, it was a glass of water, maybe a bowel movement, maybe some gratitude. Being grateful for this is another day, because every moment of life is a gift. Nothing is guaranteed. Think back to that morning action, that action that happened yesterday morning and as you feel into it, how did your body feel during and after? Did you feel expansive? Did you feel expansive? Did it feel generative in your body? Did it feel restorative or, potentially, did it feel draining? There's no judgment here. There's no right or wrong. Just what happened yesterday morning at rising time. Then see if you can speed up your day and your mental timeline. Continue to breathe nice and slow and feel into your afternoon, feeling into if you are hungry, if you are willing to pause and give yourself real nourishment. How was the meal? Were you able to enjoy it with others? Were you able to go slow enough to really absorb the nutrition of your food? Were you able to feel the blessings of how it was created before it was consumed? Were you able to pause and take some breaths before and after eating to help your digestion? How did you feel after that meal? Was that meal everything or was it lacking or was it lacking? No judgment, no changing anything. Whatever happened happened and it was yesterday. It's done, it's fine. This is just reflection. Nobody can jump into your mind here and read your audit. This is just you and you, friends, just you and you Continue to breathe and stay with yourself and your memories of yesterday as you move forward and potentially think of your end of day at work.

Speaker 1: 9:18

Potentially think of your end of day at work, maybe conversation with a friend or a coworker, maybe even dinner. What's the next big moment of your day yesterday? How was that for you? Can you feel your body deeply, deeply relaxing and letting go, or are you feeling yourself getting tight as you think about yesterday? Was your evening time spacious, full of alchemy and integration, or was your evening filled with something else?

Speaker 1: 10:15

We're going to fast forward even a little more to that moment where you were getting yourself ready for bedtime. To that moment where you were getting yourself ready for bedtime. Did you have a chance to be with yourself and just feel into the gratitude for the day, all the blessings that you had while you were alive? Are you able to think about that glorious win that you had in the day, or was something else happening at the end of the day, potentially feeling into all the things air quote that potentially didn't get done? I want to invite you to take a deep breath in. I want to remind you that you did your best.

Speaker 1: 11:06

Exhale out Another deep breath in reminding you that you should feel very proud for being you. Exhale out, exhale out In this moment. You can begin to wiggle your toes and your fingers, feeling into this moment where you can bring some gentle honesty. How have the past 24 hours been for you? Where did you really see yourself truly nourishing yourself? Where were the moments where you feel, oh yes, that was completely restorative? And where are the moments that were draining for you? Where were the moments that were just energetically expensive? Nothing to do or change of yesterday. This is only information for you to have moving forward. May this exercise inform your tomorrows Big hugs. Thank you so much for joining us today, until next time.

Speaker 1: 12:33

Thank you for joining us on the Desire is Medicine podcast Desire invites us to be honest, loving and deeply intimate with ourselves and others. You can find our handles in the show notes. We'd love to hear from you.