SL 365 | Day 22 | "Self-Love is not good for Marketing Campaigns"

Living in a shallow culture is a major barrier to a healthy Self-Love practice. When we're being influenced by others--whether through advertising, popular TV, social media, or the opinions of friends & family--we're no longer being intentional about our decisions. If we're not being intentional, then we can't know whether our self-love practice is working in our favor. So the antidote to Shallow Culture is really Intentional Living/Loving. A quick way to bring yourself back down to reality, so that you can be intentional, is to get grounded. I recommend a "get grounded trigger" that you put into place and can grab quickly when you're feeling out of sorts, influenced, heady, airy, cynical, or otherwise ungrounded. Getting grounded actions can be anything from digging in the dirt, to walking around barefoot, to moving/rearranging furniture in your house, to phoning a friend, to listening to a certain song that brings you back down to earth. Put the trigger into place NOW so that you don't have to think of a way to combat "shallow" when it arises in the moment. Be intentional now, practice-practice-practice, and the antidote will be your go-to without having to stop and think, "Great! What am I going to do now!?!"