20231108 - Body Scan

Lately I've been thinking a lot about accountability and taking ownership of my own bulls**t. As humans we tend to blame the world for our own shortcomings. We blame others for the things that are wrong in our lives and make ourselves the victim of our circumstances. It might be our partner, our boss, our job, the government, our own mind, our parents, our conditioning, or a million other things. It might feel nice in the moment. "It wasn't my fault, I'm not responsible." But it takes away our power. Fundamentally it's a childish position (and I don't write this as a judgment). Children are slaves under their circumstances, as adults we are not. As adults we have the power to actively choose how respond to our life. We are respons-able. But when we blame things outside of ourselves we give away this power. For our ego it can be quite challenging to take ownership of our shortcomings, but when we do we also take back our power to act. And it feels great!