Casey Lepper Counseling

One of the phrases I find myself repeating most often is- we don’t see things for how they are, we see them for how we are. I find it so simple and so true. Our mental state and collective subjective experience changes how we perceive things, be it people, places, things or ideas. We perceive a mountain to be taller and steeper the heavier our backpack. The more loving and supportive our relationships, the more we project love on the external world. When we are critical of ourselves, we tend to look at everything else with an eye of criticism. Take some time to be mindful on how you’re choosing to be aware. Do you notice more faults, errors and mistakes? If so think about how this is affecting the overall reality of your being.
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It is a choice and you have the power to decide what world you live in. ✨

Highly recommend this book for anyone on the fence about jumping into meditation. Daniel Goleman and Richie Davidson take you through their 30+ years into studying meditation. Thanks to many technological advances in instruments used to study the trait and state affects in meditators- they are able to publish and outline scientifically valid conclusions prompting even the biggest skeptics to reconsider. There’s far too many benefits to type but one particularly fascinating scientific result points to mediation as being able to slow down the shortening of your telemeres. Telomeres are tiny caps at the end of your DNA. As we age, they shorten. Not only does mediation slow down the shortening but it can also add length resulting in significant change for cellular aging. Mediation increases telomerase activity- the enzyme responsible for reversing telomere shortening. Check out the authors’ work or Elizabeth Blackburn’s telomeres research which earned her a Nobel Prize.

If you go towards the pain you feel instead of turning away, you will discover the place that needs work. Take the time to reflect rather than ignore, project, displace or repress. Ask yourself why this hurts so bad, why it’s staying in your thoughts. Find the true root and take care of the pain in a tender way. Make peace with pain, shed a layer and step forward. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”

Words on from relationship queen 👑