When you woke up this morning, did you start by asking yourself? What do I want to do today? Now for most of us that is not how we start our morning and that's okay Okay, but what we want to do you see the problem is most of the start our day and we're immediately into obligation mode And there's no real space for us to kind of Inviting that question about what do I want to in other words to cultivate a sense of felt desire within us for something Anything doesn't really matter what it is If we're in obligation mode It's like desire doesn't even enter the equation Now it's fine to believe that you have obligations to take care of things But all I'm going to invite you to do here in this video is to create a space in your life in which you start to explore That desire that's within you for anything Okay Obligation is fine, but if our life becomes completely full of obligation You know, we wake up first thing and I have to do this. I have to do that. I have to go to work. I have to Do a great presentation. I have to please the manager. I have to Bring the kids to football practice whatever it is right have to have to have to obligation all the time if there's no place where you can Have a boundary and start to sit with that question But what it is you want and to cultivate the desire for something in your life You're going to start to feel disconnected from yourself you are important and Sitting with that question is one of the healthiest things you can do for yourself believe me I always state that journaling is super important and to start to You know, what I'm not talking about here is like Really strict goals for yourself or something. Okay, although it's there's nothing wrong with goals. Goals are great But I'm really just talking about cultivating the feeling of desire within yourself And how healthy that can be to start to get excited about things that you genuinely want now Initially you may be facing when you start to do this is you haven't asked yourself that question for so long That when you sit down to be with that question nothing comes up Which is normal, okay? There's nothing wrong with that But if you sit there with that question long enough and frequently enough habitually You will start to get in touch with Desire for things and it's super important We know people for instance you have depression often times The things that once made them feel joy in life no longer bring them that sense of joy So there in another another way of thinking about that conceptually is They're out of touch with any felt sense of desire and So one of the the tools we can start to use is to really prioritize feeling desire again Now it's not even necessarily important that every desire you can in touch with Gets met Okay, because it won't some desires come up and they fade away But what we don't want to do is to Refuse or disallow ourselves from feeling the desire because of feelings of hopelessness or helplessness or frustration from the past disappointment may be we've had Just did allow now some of those desires will come up and some of those desires will be met That's what we want But the real fundamental thing is am I starting to feel desire for things? And that involves a practice and it's so easy to get into the practice of Cutting yourself off from that question that power to yourself that has genuine Authentic desire for things because as I said the way I put it is always obligation mode if you look at your day-to-day life Is it all obligation? Or is there a space where you can start to sit down maybe do some journaling on this and Find out what it is. I really really want that's gonna make me feel excited and hold the space in your life for that So that's a short video today a little tip, but it's in a profound one and Of course, it's not as simple as just watching a video on this the inner work the the work is Going to be with you on this. Okay. This is work. You will do by yourself personally Try and find a place where you're by yourself with no distractions. It's gonna require a little bit of stillness and a little bit of bringing your awareness into your body where you'll feel that desire and It is absolutely possible to do it doesn't take long it might take maybe a few days for you to start to get it back and touch with that To give yourself permission to start feeling like that again, but that is a really really core exercise for you to start practicing Especially if you've noticed that you've been feeling disconnected Hopefully so I'm gonna leave it there for now. I hope that was helpful and Thanks for watching talk again soon You