Stop feeding the machine

One of my favorite little handbooks for life is The Four Agreements.

If you’re not familiar, here they are in simplistic form:

1. Be Impeccable with your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don’t Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don’t Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

Probably like many of you, I have trouble sometimes a lot following this simple code of conduct.

The one I want to talk about today is, be impeccable with your word, and also, stop feeding the machine.

There is energy around conversation, and the more you talk about things that aren’t bringing any joy in your life, the worse you feel. I’m not saying that there isn’t a time and place to get things off your chest, or work through your feelings, but I often find I have the same old conversations with people about the same negative topics, and it’s not actually solving anything, it’s just feeding the machine (of negative energy).

Yes, I’m 100% guilty of that too. Don’t think I’m letting myself off that easy.

So, as a goal, if I’m having a conversation that isn’t serving the greater purpose of my well-being, or the well-being of the people I’m having the conversation with, I plan on changing the subject.

Nip it in the bud, so to speak.

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