Good Risings

Today we talk about Lashing Out. Many external factors impact our emotional and hormonal responses. Remember, feelings are not facts and emotions are not actions. As an example, anger is not aggression and happiness is not uncontrollable laughter. 

The point is our emotions are not in control of our actions. Our awareness and the ability to utilize reason overcome our emotions and feelings. 

Awareness is a relatively rare level of enlightenment and self control is a difficult skill to master. Understanding this principle is often all we need for forgiveness. 

The process of Forgiveness. This may start with a Pros and Cons list. Then understand and analyze the list and remind yourself of the choice to understand and forgive. 

We can empathize with the experience. In the absence of understanding we can wield compassion.

Forgiveness is rarely one and done. It is a choice we make over and over in our lives. 

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Good Risings is a mindset. Join Jacqueline MacInnes Wood & Bryan McMullin for a daily dose of Good Vibes & Mindfulness.

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This week I will be joined by my colleague and friend Jesse MacBeth. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Pennsylvania. You can find Jessie at www.abetterlifetherapy.com

Today’s Question: I have been trying to get my feelings back for my partner for about two years. Do you have any advice?

Answer: This is a very complex question. You are asking this question and not simply leaving the relationship. I would like to know if anything has changed. What are the dynamics now? Is there a bigger item at the root of this? How much is the other person involved? Have you let your partner do all the work hoping to rekindle those feelings? Also, how were things in the beginning? What were the feelings like? 

Usually it seems that people are looking for the same feelings they had at the beginning. Has there been a betrayal of trust? Has there been a major shift in the relationship? Were you super excited and they were luke warm? 

What does it mean to have feelings in a long term relationship? In the beginning these feelings are usually fueled by hormones and they do not last forever. Real life does allow those hormonal surges to last forever. 

Have you lost feelings truly? You are still here two years later, why? I would be curious why you haven't ended it? Is this that you miss the feelings of the honeymoon phase? Are you simply feeling lonely?

Consider this, do you want to be the one making the effort or do you want your partner? Try to start by asking the question, what is the balance here? 

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Show Notes by: Brett Burris

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“Do not judge me by my success. Judge me by how many times I fell and got back up again.” -Nelson Mandela

This week we have been focusing on Strength. Today the topic is Spiritual Strength. 

What is Spiritual Strength? It is the ability to connect with and draw from a power or force that is greater yourself. It can give you the strength and courage to overcome challenges in your life and achieve your goals. It can also help you to connect to your higher power and provide you with guidance and support in difficult situations. Spiritual Strength can also help you to find meaning and purpose in your life.

Ways to achieve Spiritual Strength can be: Spend time with your higher power. Prayer and meditation can help you to connect closer with your higher power. Spend time in nature. Connect with others with similar beliefs in nature, practicing yoga, or in your place of worship.  

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Good Risings is a mindset. Adrianne Nina  for a daily dose of Motivation.

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This Pandemic has been termed as “The Great Resignation.” People wanted to take control of their lives, professionally, personally and financially. 

Today during our conversation around Burnout, I want us to focus on Sacred Rest. 

This is not just sleeping. This is a sabbatical. 

Sacred Rest is a time you take away from doing any sort of labor. This is time spent on yourself. This is time motivating your personal passion. Sacred Rest is the time to rest your mind, body and spirit. This is an ancient practice that was present in day to day life. This was the sabbath. This was a day of no labor.

This can be just creating your own sabbath. A day of personal rest. Be more intentional about how you spend your day. What distractions can you tune out? What are your actions giving back to you?

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Mercury is entering Pisces today which creates two interesting energies. 

Mercury and Pisces are a fantastic transit that really focuses on conversation. Connection through conversations is a relevant energy. While Pisces represents the nonverbal, Mercury represents the verbal.

This could be asking us to register what is nonverball but is communication. These can be; body language, subtext, tone, inflections to name a few. Scientific research has proven that 94 percent of communication is nonverbal. 

The other energy from Mercury entering Pisces is a creative transit. 

This energy wants us to focus on your creativity. This can be your  passion projects such as writing, dance, painting, or song. 

Julia Cameron, author of “The Artist’s Way”, says, “We are all creative because we are created by the creator.”

This means creativity is natural and not being creative is unnatural. Creativity is healthy. We are all creative, we just have different media to show it.

“Unused creativity is not benign. It metastasizes. It turns into grief, rage, judgment, sorrow, shame.” says Brené Brown

Remember today focus on your creativity and your communication, be it verbal or nonverbal. 

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The goal of this week is to help identify the thieves of consciousness. 

Today we focus on moments of weakness. This is a tricky topic due to the subjective nature. This can be tricky because there are no broad sweeping statements that can be made about moments of weakness. 

 Moments of weakness require our forgiveness for our own well being and also for them. This simply means we close a chapter regardless if we stay in the relationship or end it. 

When we fall short of small goals, and feel shame, the only way forward is forgiveness. This is an opportunity for us to learn why we fall short. This is also an opportunity for us to reevaluate our values.

Remember, in moments of weakness, forgiveness is the only way forward. 

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This week I will be joined by my colleague and friend Jesse MacBeth. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Pennsylvania. You can find Jesse at www.abetterlifetherapy.com  

Today’s Question: How do I get an emotionally avoidant partner to engage with me? I am trying to improve our relationship but no matter what I do, nothing really changes things. 

Answer: This should not be met with accusations but should be met with trying to understand how each person is feeling. Discuss triggers related to the relationship. The emotionally distant partner may feel as though things are going well. The discussion should try to answer why each person feels a certain way. You should try to validate your feelings and help each other understand what you need from each other. 

What is the difference between avoidance versus just communicating differently? It seems that with the label of Avoidnant, it is easier to justify your feelings, like you have validation that they are not as committed. However, it may be that they just simply communicate differently. 

Trying to have the conversation through discernment therapy may actually trigger the response that they really are truly not engaged. Maybe they did not know how to have this conversation. 

Through this, we should learn, we really do not always have certainty. Labels are easier to utilize and accept, than the difficult conversations at times. Labels also can be seen as critical of them and this breaks down the communication. Labels are rarely helpful in this scenario. 

Discernment therapy is an observation of both parties, not only the one that is leaning out. This therapy is meant to evaluate all parties and how each can improve the relationship. Both parties have a role to play in figuring out how to move forward. Also “I don’t know” is not a bad response but maybe it is an internal issue one person is struggling with. 

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“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.” -Marcus Aurelius 

Today we focus on Mental Strength. What does Mental Strength mean? It can be defined as the ability to maintain focus and composure under stress or difficult circumstances. It is the ability to overcome obstacles and setbacks. It is the capacity for us to stay positive and motivated in the face of adversity.

There are many benefits of Mental Strength. Motivation, how to deal with stress and adversity. 

Here are some ways to practice and grow and improve your Mental Strength: 

Practice self compassion by being kind and forgiving to yourself.  

Set realistic achievable goals

Do not try to accomplish too much

Accept setbacks 

Take care of your physical health

All of these can help you to grow, improve and become stronger Mentally. 

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Good Risings is a mindset. Adrianne Nina  for a daily dose of Motivation.

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Today’s focus on how to deal with burnout, is dealing with the Productivity Trap. 

Oftentimes our career burnout is related to our value being associated with our labor and performance.  

We have been conditioned to feel this way. From the good grades, or stickers for our performance during our education, our rewards for chores well done, or even a trophy earned playing sports.  

So the association of our worth being related to our productivity is how we feel about ourselves has been a learned trait.  

Raises are typically merit based. So we try to be over productive. We do not feel the work we do is enough. We are not worthy of a raise unless we give more of ourselves. This is the productivity trap.

This can result in stress, emotionally or physically. It can result in mood swings. Overall it is not a healthy life.  

How do we end the trap? What if we decide we are divine and are enough? What if our wealth is not related to work, but that we are simply enough? What if we realize we are worthy by just giving enough and not more? 

What is your balance between work and play? This week be sure to play just as hard as you work!

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Are you experiencing career fatigue?  Join our Single Serving guest host, Katherine Searcy, for a week on career burnout.

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The Moon is now in Gemini and is creating a trine to Mars and Aquarius and Venus and Aquarius. When we have trine it means certain planets are creating a trine to other planets in their same elements. 

Aquarius and gemini are both air signs. Which gives us positive energy around relationships. 

Today, focus on how you can use communication to build better connections.

One important thing to appreciate about the air element is their relationship energy. 

Consider what is the role of questions to help build better connections with others. 

The quality of our relationships and connections are a product of the questions we are or are not asking.

A gemini is the zodiac’s journalist. They want to know who, what, when, where and why. Make sure you are asking the people you love deep open ended questions. Ask them their goals, their fears, their desires, their longings. When you know how to ask these questions, you are letting them know you are invested, you care and you really want to know them on a deeper level. 

Make fifty percent of your dialog open ended questions today and watch your relationships change!

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