I’ve been thinking about the lesson that resulted from yesterday’s white plighted binge. I’ve come to a conclusion. It’s about self expression and making your needs known. I continue to work on that on a daily basis. Today another opportunity to become aware of expressing my needs rose to light.
When 12:00 rolled around, I was technically free to eat any food that I wanted. Yet I chose to eat a banana and some potato crisps that I had bought yesterday.
It struck me as odd that the exact foods that I felt controlled and limited to yesterday, became the food that I chose today. Then I had an insight. Like so many women, I have a tendency to have a good girl streak in me. That means that I am a real rules oriented gal.
Someone once told me that rules are often guidelines and that if they don’t work for you, it’s alright to question them. What a concept!
I realized that I easily could have questioned the hygienist and asked her about individual foods that I may have preferred to eat . Yet a part of me chose to suffer in silence.
Let me share this with you… Sometimes we just have to speak up and say what’s on our mind. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the form of a question or a statement, just as long as we make our needs known.
The next time that you have the opportunity to say something and you notice that moment passed you by, ask yourself, what can I learn from this?
I’d love to hear some stories of times that you felt that the moment passed you by and how you learned to do things differently the next time. Please share your comments and let’s learn from each other.