In checkIN: 8 steps to more creativity, possibility, and inspiration, one of the skills shared in step one – checking in to the physical environment, is comfortable or uncomfortable?

The checkIN was the first tool I created. I created it as a personal teaching tool to facilitate mindfulness at the beginning of a class. I did not want to read from a script. The 8 steps were a map for my mind. I later included four skills for each step.

This post is not about the checkIN. The title of today’s Sunday excerpt from abetterway. using inner resources to create your own algorithm is discomfort.

As for reflective questions for Quiet Time:

1. Do you know what a regulated state feels like? If not, check out Thursday’s blog. In something more. week two I share a simple image for identifying one’s state.
2. Are you open to considering the regulated state of wellbeing to be the stabilizing source of energy? This means all other energy states or feelings/emotions/moods exist based on their relationship to the balanced state of wellbeing. Consider this in an experiential way throughout your day/week. Energetic states outside of a regulated state can be considered ‘communicators’.
3. Read through the last paragraph that begins with ‘when bumped…’. Are you open to noticing this experience throughout your week, along with the skill of compassionate awareness: noticing without judgment, comparison or criticism.

This may be an opportunity to share a strategy taken from storyitell – part III. Allow me to share ‘tips’ – recognize resistance and onboard thinking. Can I get onboard with doing the next thing?

You may follow @sallysifer FB page or Instagram to use tips shared by James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, along with the Orange Theory Fitness Transformation Challenge, to focus on three new habits for 8 weeks. I like to use segments of time to focus on simple new habits that can contribute toward desired outcomes.