Softness

In everything I am doing today, I notice how much effort I am expending. I rub the hardwood floor with a little too much muscle, I pray with too intention, I eat with too much hunger.

How can I loosen the grip? I first just allow myself to notice this, without any effort to try to change it. I bring the comfort of acceptance to myself. I invite comfort in. Comfort is a way of touching the soft side of life.

I know I need to be supportive and nurturing to myself. I was talking with a friend last week about taking care of herself and bringing comfort into her daily life. She honestly said, ‘I think I am too stingy with myself.’  Her comment struck me. I invite all of us to look at that comment honestly in our own lives.
Is comfort something we believe we have to earn, or can it be something we just allow and integrate?