A kind of real magic any one of us can perform, a kind of magic I do believe has the power to change our experience of reality, if not reality itself.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp

The Book of Faded Green

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I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it. — Tyler Kent White

My hair stylist is, as many of them are, a down low psychotherapist.

The Camp House

Anyway she told me about a Christian author, Ann Voskamp who wrote this contemplative book called 1000 Gifts

I am totally guilty of pessimism and negativity

My Saturn Return had a lot to do with becoming aware of my negative perspective and how the voices I’d taken on were polluting my experience, my life, my capacity for joy

Seth taught me how to do this.

Oprah helped really popularize and mainstream the concept of gratitude journaling

It’s connected to the practice of Julia Cameron's Morning Pages which were popularized around the same time period.

The Book of Faded Green was my first instinctive experiment — life changing

Years later, I used re-framing to change my relationship with Abundance and escape poverty

Even several years after that, it became The Money Shift

The concept of the exercise in The Money Shift can be adapted to any number of things you need to shift.

The name of this blog, this podcast SHIFT YOUR SPIRITS has always been at its core, a message about the power of reframing

It’s a kind of Neurolinguistic programming

Re-programming

The past year was really hard for me because of my relationship with one family member. Someone who married into my family.

I’ve never had “feuds” with anyone or falling out with any family members, not really

I’m a Leo — we are triggered by a desire to protect those we believe are in our charge…

Carrying around anger and outrage is debilitating

And it’s not like doing The Money Shift for one month means those negative voices never creep back in.

Reframing negative voices is chiropractic … shifting shifting shifting in the right direction, then back sliding with each little life encounter pulling in the other direction

I usually practice what people would call Gratitude Journaling in the car.

Driving allows me to look around and observe, and when I’m feeling desperately dark, I just start naming anything I like and can remark on positively

Anything I can grab onto to start that shift when I’ve forgotten myself.

I was just thinking about how I needed to do another round of more focused, intense, committed Gratitude Shifting when a meme popped up on Facebook

It says:

Did you know you can rewire your brain to be happy by simply recalling 3 things you’re grateful for every day for 21 days?

I thought, why yes. yes I do know some version of that concept if not this exact statistic. (Unverified by the way, but who cares, the spirit of it works for me.)

Susan Hyatt suggested it as a challenge to her Facebook friends and asked if others wanted to participate with her.

And like I needed anything else on my To Do list with a daily check in …

But the synchronicity was there and sometimes my spontaneous decisions are the best, so I just did it.

You may have seen me posting on my personal page or in the SYS group.

I missed a day - who cares - I just picked up where I left off.

I’m trying though to pick 3 DIFFERENT things every day and not just repeat versions of the same thing.

Because my stylist told me one of the things she loved most about reading this woman’s book who did the 1000 Gifts, was how much, after you run through the obvious list of things, you really have to contemplate and observe and reach into the most mundane moments of your life to find new sources of beauty.

For instance, she talked about being moved by a particularly meditative passage on washing dishes and observing the miraculous surface of soap bubbles.

And I thought YES, the magic in the mundane.

This is something Toni Morrison talks about and has been in my consciousness since I was a teenager.

So, I thought, yes, won’t it be interesting to see where you might go after 21 days.

What will it take to discover 1000.

And that math makes me think of the power of the 3 x 3 strategy

And so I feel like this is a new magic spell we could do.

It has threads running through so many Shift Your Spirits themes and memes.

You could even do this as part of your Reboot — the free writing, journaling part of the process.

Finding a list of 1000 things at 3 per day would essentially be 3 Reboots.

And here’s the secret about the Reboot — you don’t stop after 3 months anyway, you do it indefinitely. That’s what happens when you fall into that practice and it becomes such a source of peace and energy.

No pressure if you want to take on this challenge.

Break it down in chunks.

Work it in stages.

This first part is 3 things per day for 21 days.

Let’s do that part first and see where it gets us.

And I think it might be cool if people post their daily gratitude in the Shift Your Spirits community. Hell, post that every day. Don’t be shy. Stick a cool picture.

If anything, for lurkers and scrollers, it still impacts us because we see that, in the moment, and we see others commenting and chiming in, and maybe we do post ours or maybe we don’t.

But we think it.

Everyone’s shifting together.

Listen, we are diving toward extinction of our species and the death of our planet.

In the last 2 years or so … Hmm.

We need to pull out of this nose dive fast.

People shifting, in their own bubbles, shifting against one another … Shifting into each other, connecting, networking ...

Like the foaming clouds of soap bubbles in your kitchen sink...

That’s magic.

And I do believe that could change the world.