July 26, 2021

These agreements are formed from the Toltec wisdom which is designed to help us unlearn beliefs that take away our happiness and vibrant self.

1. Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or gossip about others. Use the power of your word to offer love.

Why?

Your word is the power you create. It is through the word you manifest everything. Our words are containers of power!

Impeccability of the word will give you immunity from anyone putting a negative spell on you. When you become impeccable with your word, your mind is no longer fertile ground for words that come from negative black magic. Instead, it is fertile ground for the words that come from love.

Life can be very easy when love is your way of life. This is your choice. Love in action only produces happiness. Love will give you inner peace. It will change your perspective on everything.

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

2. Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

Why?

Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally. Nothing people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds. If you take things personally, you eat their emotional garbage. When we really see other people as they are without taking things personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do and we avoid many upsets. There’s a huge amount of freedom when you choose not to take things personally.

3. Don’t make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Why?

Because we don’t understand something, we make an assumption about the meaning. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions, we simply assume. The way you keep yourself from assumptions is to ask questions until you are clear. The day you stop making assumptions you’ll start communicating cleanly and clearly.

4. Always do your best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment. It will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse, and regret.

Why? This fourth agreement is about the action of the first three - under any circumstance always do your best. When you choose to do your best, you’re going to: live your life intensely; be productive; be good to yourself; create action – and action is about living fully. Keep your attention on today. Always do your best today.

Every day, choose to activate these four agreements. If you break an agreement, begin again tomorrow, and again the next day. It will be difficult at first, but each day will become easier and easier, until someday you will discover that you are ruling your life with these four agreements. And, you will be surprised at the way your life has been transformed.

-Adapted from the resource: The Four Agreements