The Calendaring Workshop was extraordinary in many respects.  Among other things, it was, for me, a wonderful opportunity to check and see if, and how, I have been living my life according to my values.

The exercises showed me that, very often, I do live a life aligned with my values.  I was shocked.  I have been believing that I couldn’t rest until I had done much more work to improve myself and the conditions in my life.  I assumed that I couldn’t be happy until everything was handled according to some unexamined specifications. 

As Cheri states in her book, “That Which You Are Seeking is Causing You to Seek,” “We always choose our beliefs over our experience.” That has certainly been true in my case.

Gratefully, I can use R/L to turn that insight into a life-long practice. With R/L, I record what’s true.  Every time I choose my Life experience over a belief or an assumption, I record that, which strengthens that habit and perspective.  I can begin to screen for what is working rather than listening to conditioned voices’ tantrums about the ways I should improve and how things should be different. 

Initially, I can record, “What the voices say …, but what I know is true is…”   Eventually, I’ll drop the first part and live only in what’s true.

What’s true is gratitude for our Practice, our Sangha, and this tool of R/L to support me living the Life that comes alive through me.

Gassho.

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