So many fun games to play in the Silly Season. Here's another one. 

Do you find yourself overcrowded with people in your house or workplace during the festive season? Or is there always that ONE person sucking up all the oxygen or boxing you into a corner?

Here's a game to play at these times. The rules are simple. Whenever you start to feel you're folding, stapling, mutilating, or contracting yourself to fit into someone else's reality box, or you're gasping in the vacuum because they've sucked all the oxygen out of the room, or you feel pinned beneath the weight of your family/boss' baggage and expectations expand outwards.

How? Just consciously ask your edges to move out. How far? As far as you need in all directions until you become lighter and spacier. Can anyone hang their baggage on your hooks if you're pure space? Will you have any hooks left?

Practice this game. When you master it, you might even find people fall straight through you, flat on their face. And who said slapstick wasn't funny?

How often do you get stuck in life? A lot, a little or not at all? Do you ever get into a cranky pants rage or spiral into a frenzy of anxiety? Is that fun for you?

If not, and you'd prefer to have total freedom to see and walk around such roadblocks — to be able to change anything that's not working for you in life — start by asking one of these questions. 

​1. What if I had infinite, free choice? 

2. What if everything were just an interesting point of view?

3. If I had 10 second to choose the rest of my life, what would I choose?

4. What question could I ask?

5. What if form and structure had no significance?

6. Am I in judgement? 

7. What does this add to my life?

8. What's the value of competition?

9. What if I didn't buy the story?

10. What am I excluding here? 

The reality is, you always have choice. 

What have you decided you do not want in your life? People who lie, cheat and steal? Unreliable and flakey people? Bossy and know-it-all people? What else?

How much energy do you spend judging people in an effort to keep certain things out of your life? Does it ever work? Is it fun for you? Does it expand your life in ways you'd like?

If not, rather than judging and excluding, be in allowance and inclusive. 

When you exclude, you define the limits of what you are willing to receive and shut off your access to infinite possibilities. 

So when you notice you're trying to avoid someone, ask "What am I excluding here, that if I were to be in allowance of would contribute to my life in ways I can't yet imagine?"

Will this put you at the mercy of people? No. When you are aware and inclusive you will see what's going on and how to choose the bits that work for you. 

As a result, they may exclude you from their lives, because you're no longer fun for them. 

Are you compelled to always try your hardest to win, be right, better than, or different to anyone else? Or at least not to appear to lose or to be wrong?

How's that working for you? Is it fun?

Or do you feel trapped in a race for which you don't seem equipped and are never enough? Are you frozen by the fear of failure? Do you become depressed when you don't meet other people's standards or expectations?

Are you the same as anyone else? No. So how can an apple and a nightingale compete? Only by both becoming something else that they're not. 

So if you feel limited, frustrated, frozen or depressed by the rules of a race that doesn't exist ask "What's the value of buying into competition as real?"

Then ask "What is the greatest contribution I can be to my life, family, business and communities?" That's the generative kind of competition, which is all about being more of you. 

Would you like to create the life you'd truly like? Then step out of judgement and into awareness. 

What's the difference? Judgement, discrimination and discernment are fixed points of view, that you will die to prove right. You will often feel emotional heat, a useful way to sense the difference. 

Awareness is an interesting point of view you can change with ease. 

Judgements — regardless of whether they're good or bad — will serve only to control and limit you. Awareness gives you access to infinite possibilities. 

If you'd like to be free of limitation, ask whenever you find yourself coming to a conclusion about what someone (including you) has said or done: "Am I in judgement?" 

When you find you are in judgement, repeat as many times as required "Everything, even my/their strongest option, is just an interesting point of view."

If you dare, follow up with "What am I aware of that, if I chose it, would be the greatest contribution to me and my communities?"

What do you do when things don't fit into the form and structure you've decided your life must have? When things vary or change? Like now, for example. Old normal gone. Enter "new normal."

Do you say “Oh that's interesting. It's different! It's something I never thought about! I wonder how much fun we can have? I wonder what new better and beyond normal can I help create?”  

Or do you react with upset and say “This is strange/crazy/stupid. If they only did it this way life would be better! OMG how can I put up with this?”

How much stress or unhappiness do you have because you've decided things have to be a particular way? 

If you'd like less stress and more happiness in your life, ask "What if form and structure had no significance?" Then

• notice the form & structure in your life
• let go of any significance you've attached to it
• choose the form & structure that works for you, or you'd like to create and
• change whatever doesn't.

How? Ask more questions. There's a bunch here www.thedailyq.co you can start with. 

Do you use drugs of any kind? Hard drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, tobacco or alcohol to excessive amounts? Do you have any other compulsive behaviour, for example with food, exercise or helping/bullying people, or feeling bad, that you think you can't change? Are you a control freak working 24/7 to prove you're right?

What does this behaviour add to your life?

Do you use it to dull or heighten your awareness about something? Does it free you from pain, physical, emotional or intellectual? Does it create a space where you feel more you?

How real is that awareness, freedom and space? Completely, or not at all?

What if you could create real, total awareness, freedom and space which does not rely on anything but you?

If you'd like to find out, ask “What does this add to my life, and what information do I require that would empower me to create that in other ways?”

Visit http://www.marilynbradford.com/right-recovery-for-you.html for more information.  

Ever heard a story or two million recently? Are they True? Are they Fake? 

How much of story telling is someone trying to get you to do what they want? Or at least confuse you about what is really going on?

What if none of it were real or true? What if all stories were simply interesting points of view?

If you'd like to be free to create your own life as you'd like, ask "What would I choose if I didn't listen to, tell or buy the story?"  Then check in with what feels light to you and choose that. 

Repeat. I mean it. Every time you hear a story. ask "What would I choose if I didn't listen to, tell or buy the story?"  And check in with what feels light to you and choose that. 

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat X infinity.

Sure you can enjoy a story for the heck of it. At the end, say “Wow, that was a terrific story! Thank you [for the entertainment]! What an interesting point of view!" 

And then ask yourself "What would I choose if I didn't listen to, tell or buy the story?"  Check in with what feels light to you and choose that. You get the picture. 

Looking for something interesting to do while you're in lockdown? Give this a go. 

Sit comfortably. Close your eyes. Find the outer edges of your body.

Got them? Then ask yourself, are you only your body, or something else? Think of it in terms of a phone/mp3 player/CD/record with music on it, versus a brand new device/disc with no music on it.

If you sense you are more than just your body (the device/disc), then find the outer edges of you, the being (the music).

Got them? Wherever you found them, push them out in all directions until they are out past the outer edges of the universe, or farther.

Now open your eyes. Do you feel the same or different? Do you have the sense of more space or less? Did you feel any edges or not?

There are no right answers to these questions. Only your awareness.

This exercise is designed to heighten your awareness of you and space and to remind you that you are a being in a free-will universe, with infinite, free choice. 

When your life is not how you'd like it to be, or if you sense your freedom of movement, thought, choice or more is being limited or controlled by others, remind yourself you can choose to create it differently.

Start by asking yourself “If I had infinite, free choice what would I choose?" Then choose it and ask "What action can I take?"

At least, what if this exercise simply helped create a little more space for you in lockdown?

How often do you get stuck in a no-win fight? Do you enjoy it when other people won't listen to your opinion and only want you to see theirs?
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How much stress, anxiety and worry do you suffer from trying to prove who's right and who's wrong about something?

Does this help your work or business? Do fights create, or use your time and money? What does stress, anxiety and worry do to your body and health? 

Would you prefer to create greater ease in life for you and your body? Then practice these magic words “interesting point of view” every time you find yourself having a difference of opinion with someone. 

You're not saying anyone is right or wrong. You're acknowledging everyone has a right to their own (perhaps insane) point of view, including you.

Say it lightly, smile and move on, for example “Yes, I see, thank you. That's a really interesting point of view. I wonder what would be the most rewarding outcome for our business/relationship/health/life right now? What else could we look at?”

This invites in new ideas and information that you might both find interesting.