DAY 26: Make A List of 'Human Survival Units'

Today's post is actually a combination of two chapters. The ideas both center around trusting your gut, your SELF in the truest sense of the word.

When we are faced with fear, failure, change (keep going - all those things we don't like) our true selves emerge. Our true friends also tend to surface. It seems that in transition, that space between letting go and arriving, the truest sense of self can be found.

Try this first activity: For 5 minutes make a list of your 'human survival units'- people who will be there when your world fails.



Who is on the list? Who isn't?

Then take another 5 minutes and write about whose list you might be on. Whose list do you want to be on?

In the end, ask yourself if you are spending quality time with those people you consider very important in your life. If not, why not? Are there a few people you need to put in the ejector seat? (These might be people who you feel obligated to see or people who are more like an old habit.)

The next activity was also focused on intuition, but in a way that shows us we tend to stop ourselves when we are closest to getting ready to make a leap - forward. We hesitate. It's scary. Risky. Just not done.

To be open to what the world throws at you - you need practice. Patti suggests this exercise:

Go outside and go for a walk. Hold up a hand and keep it open to catch whatever (an idea, an object) falls from the sky. Catch it, then name it. Then let it go. Do it again, 10 times.



What did you catch?

Mine were any where from rain drops, to money, to hope and curiosity.

Make a list of 20 things that scare you. For the next 37 days do one or two of them a day. Cross them off your list and you'll begin to see how it opens you up. To many things.