If you make a promise to your mother, or your child, to anyone you love, you don’t break it do you? Not unless you have a really good reason and it’s completely unavoidable.

So I ask you why you find it so easy to break the promises you make to yourself. The class you were going to do, the better food you were going to eat, the early night you were going to have. You know the things - yours will be unique to you, but they tend to be the vows you make to yourself when you are at a low ebb, when you see the light of how to help yourself and you pledge to make things better so that you can feel better.

Then you abandon yourself again.

I wonder why you, who would not do this to anyone else, continue to do this to yourself.

We get these little messages sent to us from time to time, these little whispers. You need more sleep, they say, you need some time alone. You need to do some yoga every day. You need to say no to that person next time. And we think we are going to do them. We really mean to do them.

Then life intervenes - things get busy, other people need your attention, you spend two hours looking at your phone.

I ask you, dear ones, to write down the promises you make to yourselves and to be as honourable towards yourself as you are towards your beloveds.

Don’t you want to feel happy and well? To burst with health and generosity? Don’t you want to smile at the world and have it smile back at you?

Start keeping your promises.
See what happens x