I have trouble changing toothpaste - as a child it took many long minutes before I managed to put the new blue minty gel covered toothbrush in my mouth, I hate the taste of plastic bottles - as soon as soon as I taste the plastic I can't drink anymore and if someone changes the teabags we use I know as soon as I take a sip. I like my water unadulterated and drink a lot of it every day. So, needless to say I was worried about this 2 litres of prep that I had been reliably told tasted foul. My usual way of tackling this would have been to get very grumpy, take ages to taste the first mouthful, faff around and make myself and anyone in the vicinity pretty miserable.
Instead I thought of everything I have been learning from my journey into mindfulness and Buddhism and realised that the only thing that would make the suffering worse was me. My response to what I had to do would be the only influence on how much I suffered. Realising this I made a choice to do things differently. I made up the solution - which had a strange overtone of lemon smell and took ages for the powder to dissolve - in a jug and worked out how much I had to drink every 20 minutes. I then recited a positive affirmation using my wrist mala to guide me. I simply said 'I can do this'. Then started to drink. I can't pretend it made the solution taste any better but it made my experience better and a lot shorter than it would otherwise have been. I have been using positive affirmations for a while and have seen benefits but this has probably been one of the most visual examples of how beneficial they can be. So what I have learnt?
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