Hi friend!

Let me ask you a question we recently asked 1,500 people around the world:

If you had a whole day just for you… No obligations, no one to impress, zero judgment, what would you actually do?

The answers were beautiful. People said they would rest. Be near water. Walk in nature. Cook, dance, read, listen to music, sip their coffee as slowly as they wanted to.
One person said they’d be Pippi Longstocking for a day. Another said they would lay naked on the earth, dance among the trees, and rejoice in having a body.

Do you notice something? Almost nobody said “do more.” What people are truly longing for is the thing they’re not allowing themselves to have right now, because they’re judging that they wouldn’t be doing enough if they chose it.

So here’s my invitation: what would it be like if you could take an hour a day just for you? To do whatever the heck you want. And if you can, take at least half a day every week where you get to do whatever nurtures you?

Now, I can hear some of you already saying, “I can’t… I’ve got this, and this, and this…” I hear ya.

And it’s probably the this and this that have you feeling like you don’t have your own life, your own space, your own energy, or dominion over your world. This tool, if you choose it, can start to change that.

How do I know?
About 15 years ago, my sister — a mother of four (okay, five, if we count the husband), running a hair salon, busy beyond belief, finally heard me after a decade of me suggesting this. She said, “I can’t quite manage an hour, but I’ll do half an hour.”

So she woke up half an hour early every day and sat in her backyard…
A backyard filled with dead grass, because they couldn’t afford the water bill. And out there on her half an hour a day, she came across a very simple question I’d shared:
What else is possible?

She asked it.

The next day, her neighbour came over and said, “Hey, we’ve been re-doing our yard and we have too much grass – would you like some?” That neighbour gave hr enough grass for her entire backyard. Then came back and offered her flowers, too.

All from her making the choice to nurture herself. To take some time and space for her – the thing she would have judged in the past, because somehow all of her energy was supposed to go into everyone and everything else.

We so often think that taking any time, any space, anything for us is selfish. What if that is actually the essential element?

Because here’s how it works: when you’re nurtured, you nurture. When you gift to yourself, you get to gift to others. When you refill your own batteries, other people wanting and needing things no longer feels like it’s draining your last drop. It feels like, “Oh cool, I’ve got energy. No problem.”

There is almost no greater gift in the world than us contributing and having that contribution received. And it works with us too, us contributing to us, and being willing to receive it.

So, half an hour a day. Whatever nurtures you. Would you be willing to choose it? 

What else is possible you’ve never even considered?

Grateful for you,
Dain

PS: If you haven’t explored it yet, https://access.me/ is a living library of Access Consciousness classes — thousands of hours on money, relationships, bodies, happiness, and more. It’s one of the resources at the top of my own list because it keeps gifting new awareness and space every time I listen.

P. P. S – If you’re feeling a bit stuck on things and could use a little more support, head on over to check out my You Got This audios. There are audios for pretty much everything 

And for more information, tools, and resources, you can visit my website:
https://www.drdainheer.com