Start your "No complaints diet" today!

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I posted this on my blog and thought it was quite appropriate to share Learning how to eat right, work out, and staying motivated can be tough at times. But keep you head up! No complaints! Here is why:

"Complaining keeps us locked in negativity, right? I mean, think about it. Who wants to hang out with someone who complains all the time? No one. So why complain even to yourself? This is the source from which self-disgust, self-hatred, and self-sabotage springs—and the ego loves it, this self-imposed separation.

Julie Hoyle, another wise woman and spiritual teacher, said the following:

If we are able to maintain this practice [of not complaining] the results are profound. When we complain, what we are doing is telling a story to ourselves in our minds and then verbally telling others about our personal response to what is taking place in our lives. The story centers on how an event affects ‘me.’ In an instant, we are able to see that we have bought into the validity of our thoughts & opinions & we want to broadcast them.

Again, a little heady. But if you don’t get it, don’t worry. This is all you have to know: just stop complaining. Try it for a week, see what happens. See how your life opens up for you. If you need more motivation, start a complaining fund—every time you catch yourself complaining, drop a quarter (or a dollar or a twenty, whatever keeps you in line) into a jar. The ego always wants to improve on the current moment. Don’t let it draw you down that path. Breathe. Find something beautiful. Focus Amy Jirsa is a writer, wanderer, yoga instructor and master herbalist. She makes her home in her studio, Quiet Earth Yoga, and on her blog, quietearthyoga.com." Never complain - By Amy Jirsa

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