Edit the Shit Bits

I saw a few posts recently encouraging people not to compare their lives with the curated, picture-perfect Instagram highlight reels of the rich and famous, or the photogenic family next door.

Of course their lives look great when they only show the best bits: holidays on tropical beaches, freshly decorated homes, healthy bubbly babies.

Of course, comparing their reality with your snotty, grubby toddler in the midst of a Melbourne winter, with damp laundry hung all over the living room may taint your perspective with a fluorescent green shade of envy.

Mindfulness offers us the option to edit our reality.

With mindfulness we move to conscientious curation of both our internal and external world.

We practise reframing our circumstances in light of our deepest values.

We intentionally choose what we do, who we surround ourselves with and where we spend our time.

We learn to catch our thoughts before they spiral into unhelpful patterns that cause distress.

As we develop a mindfulness practice we shift towards a life created out of faith rather than fear. Mindfulness is the edit button, in real life, in real time.