Confidence

Developing confidence in my own daily practice has taken many years. Optimism comes easily to me. It sustained me through the struggles of my youth. However, true confidence in my daily approach to life was forged by challenges to my optimism. Facing potentially unsolvable problems, especially physical diseases, tests practice definitively. 

Confidence in my daily practice sustains it. Over and over again, getting into the confident rhythm of my daily practices has dispersed clouds and renewed energy. Eating correctly, exercising sufficiently and meditating daily are the foundations of my confidence in daily practice. Focusing confidently on promoting my own health and mental well being allows me to apply my humanist values more naturally in the moments of my life. If I am healthy and joyful, I have no inclination to be selfish or aggressive.

Confidence in my own intention to live my values every day promotes harmony within my being. Harmony within my being promotes harmony with my environment and the beings in it. Peace and joy grow from harmonious living. A harmonious human life is a confident state of being that endures through life's challenges.