Maybe it will mean a slimmer version of you, maybe a healthier one, maybe a stronger one with more muscle. You focus on the input: what kind of food are you eating? Are you eating mindfully? Do you have a compassionate intention when it comes to your eating? Are you exercising mindfully? Are you giving yourself a good environment to support these changes? If you focus on the inputs, you don’t know what the plant of your weight loss change will result in. Focus mostly on the inputs: what are you bringing to the change? What is your intention? What is your effort? What is your enjoyment and mindfulness? If you do this with weight loss, then you don’t focus on the weight loss itself. Instead, focus on creating a good environment.
Don’t attach too tightly to the results of a change. So Grow a Plant when you’re making changes: you don’t control the outcome, so you can’t get fixated on it. You control the inputs and environment, but not the outcome. You can water it, give it more sunlight, feed it some nutrients, give it good soil, make sure bugs aren’t eating it. You don’t control the outcome, but you do control the inputs. “You don’t control the results of growing a plant-it will grow however it grows, because we don’t have god-like powers that can control how a plant will grow. Love is both the path, and the mover.” ~ Leo Babauta, Essential Zen Habits() Love can transform bitterness into softness, anger into kindness, self-hatred into self-compassion. It motivates me to let go of attachments that lead to frustrations, because why fight with someone you love? Love can move you to be mindful, to appreciate the reality of this current moment, to appreciate and embrace impermanence as something beautiful, to be grateful, to make the most of this dewlike life. It motivates me to work out, because my love extends to me, and to my kids for whom I’m setting this example of an active lifestyle. It motivates me to be vegan, because my love extends to animals. This feeling of boudless love, not for one specific person and not even limited to human beings, can motivate me to get up in the morning and write.
“In the end, after letting go of my ideals of perfection, after letting go of my striving for goals, after wanting things to be a certain way… what am I left with? I’m left with Love.
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