This morning’s podcast is about how you speak to yourself, not in the usual “You need to be nice to yourself or good to yourself if you want people to be nice to you” but more in the actual words and language that you use. Understand how you use language in your life to feel about the world and learn to change those little moments that affect your life in big ways.

Every word we speak or think is filled with emotion. Even words like laundry, car, sidewalk. Each of those words has a meaning and meaning is what helps us FEEL something. My point is that if you are frustrated or angry or anxious about something it’s not just because that “thing” has occurred, it’s what you tell yourself about that thing and how you understand what you are telling yourself.

You can recognize how you are speaking to yourself about that “thing” and approach it from a different angle.

I’m not suggesting that since you don’t like doing laundry, you shouldn’t ever do laundry or ever think about laundry what I am suggesting is that you think about something that makes you feel good that is far…far…far away from the thing that is aggravating you, or making you fearful or angry or frustrated and enjoy the feeling of bliss. Find your feeling of bliss. slowly walk from bliss around the edges of the item that is causing you issues. Slowly get closer until you feel your bliss start to slip, then back up again.

The object is to experience bliss…. always.

Meditation is a word that has gotten a bad rap.  Most people think it’s a long process sitting cross legged on the hard floor humming monotonous tones over and over when in fact, I practice active mediation.  Which is acknowledging moments of angry, frustration, anxiety and deliberately changing my current thoughts to something other than the words I am telling myself about the condition that is making me angry, frustrated or anxious.

In the attached podcast I explain my “go to” thought.  Usually, I can sift through my moments and recognize a contrast to how I want to feel and easily find a feeling of joy that I can use to reapproach whatever was irking me.  Sometimes I need to “actively meditate” about something completely different.  Something so totally the opposite, I use it like a reset button and I call it active meditation.

The beach.  The sound of the ocean, the sound of the waves and sea birds, the sound of people laughing.  The hot sun and the gentle touch of the warm breeze.  The sound of my book pages fluttering in the breeze.  I am easily enjoying this relaxing moment and that is my active meditation.  I find it very effective.

Some people would say, “eeewwww… I hate the beach… ”  But would prefer to actively mediate about an Museum of Natural History, or a Spring Meadow at Noon, or laying on a floating dock at a Lake House…  You get the idea.  Find your zen.  Keep it in your back pocket for when you realize you need to jump start your bliss, when you a reset.  Pull it out and use it!

Have an amazing day

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