Have you worked on yourself so much over the years…

That sometimes the thought of doing *more* work on yourself
just seems hard, and painful so you don’t want to do it?

I’ve been there too…

But Inner Work can totally be fun!

In fact, it’s my new #1 rule for working on myself:

Only if it feels good and is fun.

Oh, and it has to be easy too…

I’m *so* done with stressing myself out about something
that’s supposed to help me be less stressed.

Know what I mean?

So I only do Inner Work that’s fun, easy, and feels good
now.

Woo-Hoo!

I love what my friend Diana said on Twitter along the same
lines:

“If you’re not enjoying your healing process, then you’re not healing.”

Yes!

Healing should feel good and be enjoyable.

So, what I want to suggest is this…

If the thought of working on yourself hurts, seems hard, or
makes you want to eat a cupcake or watch TV for hours…

The stuff you’ve been doing hasn’t actually been Healing
Work…

It’s been Stressing Work.

That’s why you still feel yucky even after you’ve done all
this work on yourself.

Ugh.

No more of that, k?

What if you choose to make sure that any Inner Work you do
from now on is fun, feels good, and is easy?

That’s what I’m all about these days…

And I’ve been having such nice healing experiences…

Like, last night I spent the evening outside in my yard…

Which may not sound like a very big deal…

But I was in the Dark.

Alone.

I used to be afraid of the Dark.

(I mean it – I’d had this low-level anxiety about it for
about as long as I can remember…)

But because of the fun new inner work I’ve been doing with
myself…

And the new inner freedoms it’s giving me…

I was able to enjoy spending time in my yard at night by
myself…

For the first time. Ever.

And it happened because I changed the way I do my Inner
Work.

I had so much fun in my Garden Lounge.

Here’s a picture of it during the day – since my
iPhone doesnt’ take pictures well at night:

The other way I’d been doing it (by stressing myself out and
overdoing it) didn’t work.

Bringing enjoyment, play, fun, and creativity into my Inner
Work *did*.

So how about you?

Are you curious about how your Inner Work could be more fun?

Are you curious about how you can “work on your stuff” and
enjoy it?

Leave a comment and tell me what you’re thinking about all this…

But only write to me if it would be fun, okay?

New Rule: Wednesday (the weirdest named day anyway) is now called Requestday. It’s the middle of the week, and if you’re anything like me this week, asking for and receiving some help would be nice.

New Rule: Salt should be self-regulating. If more of it winds up in a dish than is going to taste good (especially if that dish is homemade raw chocolate ice cream) it should quickly apologize and excuse itself out of the dish.

Hey Mister Too-Much-Salt. Get outta my ice cream!

New Rule: When I have bad breath, a little blinking light will alert me before others around me become aware of it. This may require nano-bot receptors in my nose calibrated for detecting bacterias.

New Rule: It’s totally acceptable to tell cops who pull you over for not having a front license plate that they (and the law) are lame. And that if they have a power drill in their trunk, you’re happy to put the plate on with them watching.

New Rule: Cops should hold signs that say free hugs and stand in malls and by the beach. Hugging a cop might do a lot for my judgments of them.

Do you have any new rules for this week?

New Rule: I don’t have to title my blog entries before I write them. I can write what comes and then look back and name it at the end. First things can be last – thankyouverymuch.

New Rule: The Internet will now be called the Intergarden. Each website is now to be thought of as one of many, many flowers in the Intergarden. (Mine is now pink!) We, the bloggers and web visitors, shall be viewed as bees, birds, butterflies, humming birds, and other nectar lovers.

(Calling all creatives: Please use this post as the IntergardenWiki. What else will we experience in the Intergarden? Sites are flowers…what else?)