Daily Mystic Messages - Drawstrings
I was putting on one of my most comfortable pairs of sweatpants as I sat down to record today. I noticed that it had drawstrings and I thought, “Wow, how amazing are drawstrings?”
Drawstrings are comfortable but what they do is they respect the fact that you change.
You can change from day to day. Your body can change from day to day and they let you feel comfortable and snug within those changes. How cool is that?
All too often in our lives and in ourselves, we are shrinking and pushing ourselves into that box of perfection. And while that might be a nice idea or a really pretty package, it doesn't give us the chance to expand into a more fully expressed version of ourselves.
It doesn't give us the chance to color outside the lines, to expand and to contract in a natural way in our lives. Expansion and contraction is a normal thing, and when we try to control it and we don't give ourselves the opportunity to move with it, we just wind up trapped, stuck.
It's like that pair of jeans that's really kind of stiff and you'd go to put it on, especially after you wash it. And it's like, ‘Oh boy’. It takes a minute for it to really break in. And it might never feel really comfortable to wear no matter how good it might look on the outside.
Don't get me wrong, it's totally fine to enjoy uncomfortable clothes because they look awesome, but it doesn't really let us breathe. And when it comes to Self Love, what we want is to give ourselves some space and some time to breathe, to grow, to expand.
So if you want to get comfortable in your own skin, give yourself drawstrings.