You’re never on the wrong path…

You’re just not managing it quite as well as you could be right now.  So how do you know if you’re on the right path?  How do you know if you even have a right path? “If you have life, you have purpose”, so says Caroline Myss in Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday program, the inspiration for this article.  Everyone has a purpose, and everyone’s purpose is different.  It’s just a question of figuring out what that is.   Don’t fret though, because you never lost your purpose.  You’re reading this, which means you must be alive, which means you have a path and a purpose!

First of all, you have to have no judgements, no expectations and give up your need to know what happens tomorrow.   Don’t judge your life as it is now, just accept it (you don’t have to like it, just face up to reality).  Don’t expect anything.  Don’t expect to be living in a bigger house because seemingly everyone else’s is bigger.  Don’t expect things haven’t happened to you, as in ‘I can’t believe it happened to me/it shouldn’t have happened to me’.  Well, it did, and there’s nothing you can do to change the event (only how you think about it now).   And it doesn’t mean you’re on the wrong path.  You are never on the wrong path.  All the decisions you’ve ever made are helping you make decisions now and every decision you’re ever going to make. 

The right path feels right.   You’re being true to yourself and not betraying who you are. If your boss is unkind, or you’re constantly feeling like you’re the one making all the sacrifices, or you’re drained of life, you’re not making the right choices.  Again, you’re not on the wrong path, you’re just not managing it as well as you could be right now - “If your life path begins to harm you, you’ve taken a detour”.  And there can be many life paths, as many paths as there are decisions.  If you’re family life is perfect and you couldn’t be happier, but your job is boring and unfulfilling, then in that area you need to choose a different path, a path that feels right.  It doesn’t necessarily mean you have to quit and find a new job, but maybe find out if there is something else/more you can be doing.

You don’t even have to know where the path is taking you, you just have to know you’re making the right choices for you.  So stop, take a deep breath, look around you.  What do you appreciate in your life now?  What doesn’t feel good?  What can you do to change it?  What can you do to ensure you appreciate everything in your life, to ensure you are on the right path?  Now do it!

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To help your bowels move with ease, Put your feet on top and bend your knees

Welles Step

It’s not the done thing to talk about bowel movements, but I just wanted to share this little gem of advice with you that costs very little but makes a big difference to your everyday life.

Thanks to Thomas Crapper, toilets became commonplace in the 19th century, giving us a sanitary way to dispose of human waste.  But for what we gained in hygiene, did we loose out elsewhere?  According to Dr William Welles, we did.  Through his research, he found that squatting was the best way to eliminate waste from the body, and that toilets do not support the abdomen in the correct way. Bowel cancer most commonly occurs at the beginning of the ascending colon or the rectum, the areas that aren’t supported when using a toilet, but are supported when squatting.  Further research suggests that constipation, varicose veins, hernias, haemorrhoids and appendicitis are all attributed to the use of the toilet.

So the simple solution is to use a step (a child’s bathroom step is perfect) and hug your knees into your abdomen when on the loo.  You’ll find it much easier to pass a motion/have a poo/whatever phrase you’re comfortable with!  Steps are widely available, cheap (if you’ve not already got one lurking around somewhere), and it’s a very easy thing to incorporate into your daily routine.   So don’t be ashamed, remember, even the Queen poos.   I wonder how many Welles Steps she’d need for all her bathrooms?!!

“To help your bowels move with ease,

Put your feet on top and bend your knees”  Bess Purser, 2009.