Gratitude is a super power: Let's dive into it.

IMAGINE THE SUPERPOWER OF EXTREME FOCUS, DRIVE AND ABILITY TO WORK AT A PROBLEM WITH LIMITLESS MOTIVATION, CREATIVITY AND PROBLEM SOLVING CAPABILITY.

I “MONK” PUT FORWARD TO YOU A THEORY TO DAY…

WHAT IF BY LEARNING TO BECOME MORE GRATEFUL EACH DAY FOR THE GOOD AND THE BAD, PRACTICING ACCEPTANCE AND HAVING FAITH THAT IT IS WITHIN OUR POWER TO MAKE A BETTER TOMORROW IF WE SO WISH IT TO HAPPEN AND BELIEVE IT IS POSSIBLE. THAT WE ARE ABLE THROUGH GRATITUDE TO TEACH OUR BODIES TO REPEAT DESIRED ACTIONS THAT WE WANT TO PERFORM FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR SELVES AND OTHERS. WITHOUT THE RESISTANCE THAT COMES AS A RESULT OF PROCRASTINATION, DISTRACTION, DIFFICULTY FOCUS OR BOREDOM.

WHAT IF THROUGH PRACTICING BEING GRATEFUL EVERY DAY WE CAN TEACH OURSELVES TO VOLUNTARILY RELEASE DOPAMINE CHEMICAL INTO THE BRAIN WHEN WE PERFORM A DESIRED ACTION.

BECAUSE OUR BRAINS WORK ON DOPAMINE WHEREBY WHEN WE COMPLETE A PARTICULAR TASK OUR BRAINS GIVE US A HIT OF DOPAMINE AS A REWARD FOR US TO CONTINUE AND REPEAT THE SAME ACTION.

WHAT IF WE TEACH OURSELVES TO TAKE CONTROL AND TAKING CHARGE OF THE DOPAMINE SYSTEM IN OUR BODIES BY REWIRING OUR BODIES THROUGH REPETITION OF PRESENCE, AWARENESS AND INNER BIOLOGICAL PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTROL… TO TURN EVERY THING INTO A GAME PER SAY..

WHAT IF THE FIRST STEP TO LEARING TO MAKE YOUR OWN FUN, RELEASE YOUR OWN DOPAMINE IS FINDING WAYS OF MAKING A GAME AND FUN OUT OF EVERY DAY ACTIVITIES… IE HOW MANY SWEEPS DOES IT TAKE TO SWEEP THE FLOOR WITHOUT MISSING A SINGLE SWEEP.

Our brains release dopamine when we accomplish a goal that our brain perceives as being worthwhile to our survival and thus worth spending vital energy repeating for replicable results.

On a daily basis we are flooded with dopamine from smartphones, social media, sugary and fatty foods that occupy almost every isle of the supermarket. Our television sets flash and billboards beam with the newest gadget or must have doohickey and materialistic gizmo that MAINSTREAM SOCIETY SAYS WE MUST HAVE. Entertainment is at the tip of our fingers and little do we realize how reliant we have become on such comforts and pleasures for our daily doses of dopamine.

Drugs and alcohol are more readily available to us than older generations would like us to believe. Everything around us is designed to give us a dopamine spike in return for profit. The system is broken.

We have so much that is so easily and readily given to us that we feel no natural need and desire to go out and obtain anything of value. It’s not that a person is bad because they are lazy, demotivated, unfocused and lack drive…. They live in a society where the easiest fix of dopamine comes from a television or phone screen. Our brains do not help us naturally gravitate to completing the important tasks that we set ourselves because these tasks simply do not produce the same dopamine as quickly or as effectively as easier sources

Not to mention Serotonin, oxytocin, cortisol, epinephrine (ADRENALINE); other critical hormones and neuro-chemicals in the body are also out of whack as a result.

So in this confused concrete, metallic and electric world that mankind is stumbling through, where does GRATITUDE COME INTO PLAY???

We have a choice each day: the thoughts that we think, the actions that we take and the emotions that we feel… It’s tough in the beginning to become proactive in thinking, feeling and acting…. But it is possible.

By practicing being grateful each day for the small rather insignificant things that we previously would have taken for granted: e.g. A bed to sleep in, Food on our dinner table, Friends and companions that hopefully want the best for us… We begin to rewire our brains to feel the same kick of dopamine whenever we say “THANK YOU”.

SEPTEMBER 10TH 2021  MOODS, EMOTIONS AND INTERNAL BODILY STIMULI...🦾🧠👣❤️ 

 FOR GENERATIONS THESE INTERNAL SIGNALS HAVE BEEN MISINTERPRETTED, MISUNDERSTOOD, LEFT UNADDRESSED AND WHO'S NEGLECT HAS CAUSED THE PAIN AND INNER DEGREDATION OF THE MINDS AND BODYS OF BILLIONS GLOBALLY.💔😡🥵🤮  WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, OUR EMOTIONS AND MOODS ARE NOT SOMETHING WE CAN PERMANENTLY ESCAPE FROM... 🥴 THESE COMBINATIONS OF CHEMICAL RELEASES, PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS, HORMONAL SECRETIONS FROM INTERNAL/EXTERNAL STIMULUS, MAKES DEALING WITH OUR INNER WORLD A TRICKY BUSINESS.

😵🧐🔪  TO BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND OUR INNER WORLD, WE MUST FIRST REALIZE THAT OUR EMOTIONS ARE NOT JUST SOME BIOLOGICAL BI-PRODUCT OF THE PAST THAT WE HAVE OUTGROWN. 🤓🤠THEY ARE NOT JUST SOME INCONVENIENCE THAT IS TO BE SUPRESSED WITH MEDICATION, RECREATIONAL DRUGS OR WILLFULL BLINDNESS🤕🤒.🍂  OUR EMOTIONS ARE OUR BODY'S WAY OF COMMUNICATING CERTAIN INFORMATION AND PATTERNS TO US IN AN INSTINCTUAL AND IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZABLE WAY. EMOTIONS ARE NOT OBJECTIVE AND WERE NEVER MEAN'T TO BE. 🤯🙄🌿  

HAPPINESS, SADNESS, ANGER, DISGUST, FEAR, SUPRISE, : THE 6 UNIVERSAL EMOTIONS THAT WERE CATEGORIZED BY PSYCHOLOGIST PAUL EKMAN.🤔🌳🥀 EACH IS RECOGNIZABLE SUBJECTIVELY WITHIN THE VAST MAJORITY OF HUMANS ON EARTH. HOWEVER NO PERSON FEELS THESE EMOTIONS OR THE HUNDREDS OF NUANCED EMOTIONS THAT LIE IN BETWEEN THIS WIDE SPECTRUM IN THE EXACT SAME WAY.🤗🦚  

🏞️  OUR ENVIRONMENT AROUND US DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT THESE EMOTIONS STILL EXIST WITHIN US, AND ARISE AS WE GO ABOUT OUR FUNDEMENTAL DAY TO DAY TASKS.🎑  OUR EMOTIONS ARE ONE OF OUR BODIES METHODS OF SIGNALING TO OUR CONSCIOUS AND SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, THE INTERNAL STATE OF AFFAIRS THAT EXISTS WITHIN US. 

TO LEARN TO TAP INTO THIS INFORMATION SOURCE AND UTILIZE IT FOR MOTIVATION, WILLPOWER, JOY, FULFILLMENT, EXCITEMENT, PEACE.... AND TO LEARN TO CONTROL AND EMBRACE MOMENTS OF RAGE, HATRED, FRUSTRATION, SORROW, JEALOUS, SPITE, FEAR AND INNER PAIN.🎎🎆  BY BECOMING PRESENT WITH OUR EMOTIONS AND TALKING TO OUR BODIES AS THOUGH THEY WERE A GOOD FRIEND OF OURS, WE CAN BEGIN ASKING OUR SELVES.. 

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF. WHEN FEELING.  ANGER : 

+ HOW HAVE I BEEN MISTREATED?

 + HOW ARE THINGS NOT GOING MY WAY? 

+ WHAT SITUATION DO I NOT FEEL WENT FAIRLY TOWARDS ME?♥️  

FOR JOY: +WHAT AM I DOING THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY? +HOW AM I LIVING MY LIFE RIGHT NOW SO AS TO HAVE NO REGRETS? +WHAT INTERNAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES AM I LIVING BY THAT ARE MAKING ME FEEL COMPLETE AND CERTAIN IN MYSELF?  

FOR SADNESS: + WHAT ASPECT OF MY LIFE DO I FEEL IS OUT OF MY CONTROL? +WHY DO I FEEL HOPELESS IN SOME SITUATIONS? +WHAT PROBLEM DO I NOT KNOW HOW TO FIX RIGHT NOW?

"WHY ARE YOU FEELING THIS WAY" 

FOR DISGUST: + WHAT IS CAUSING ME DISCOMFORT RIGHT NOW AND A DESIRE TO GET AWAY. + WHY DO I FEEL A DESIRE TO PUT DISTANCE BETWEEN MYSELF AND THIS PERSON/SITUATION +ARE THERE ANY OTHER TIMES WHERE I HAVE FELT THIS WAY?? 

FOR FEAR: + IS THE THING I FEAR WITHIN MY CONTROL??? NO?? WHY??

THANKS TO REGGIE AND HELENA ZAKOVA FOR HELPING ME FIGURE OUT TODAYS LIFE LESSON.. IF YOU SPEAK CZECH, GET HELENA'S FASCINATING NEW NOVEL "SAUDADE DOWN BELOW!!"  https://www.mobaknihy.cz/saudade.html

 CREDIT FOR TODAYS PERSONAL LIFE LESSONS TO  @reginald_of_dunvar @helenazakova.wrt @spisovatelka.na.cestach

PIP EARLY BIRDS #2🌴🦅🕊️ 

 TIME!!! DAY 2 OF EARLY BIRDS AND WE ARE LATE FOR WORK!!   WOKE UP LATE, IGNORED ALARMS, GOT TO WORK LATE… 📳🔆  SO WHAT'S THE LESSON…   TIME HAPPENS TO ALL OF US WHETHER WE WANT IT TO OR NOT.   TIME IS SHIFTING, PASSING, CHANGING AND UNLESS WE LEARN TO MANAGE IT IN THIS 3D WORLD AS EFFECTIVELY AS POSSIBLY… 

✖️➗➕➖⏬⏏️  WE WILL ALWAYS BE A STEP BEHIND. HURRY BUT DON'T RUSH IS THE MINDSET WE LIVE BY AS REGGIE AND MONK. 🔱  WE WANT TO USE OUR TIME AS WELL AS POSSIBLE FOR TAKING ACTIONS, FORMING POWERFUL RELATIONSHIPS, AND PLANNING WISELY…. 🆙 WE DON'T WANT TO RUSH THIS PROCESS HOWEVER AND END UP MAKING HUGE MISTAKES THAT COULD COST US FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES... 🏁🏆  

WE ARE ALL BOUND BY TIME HERE ON EARTH, SO WHAT CAN THE EVERYDAY PERSON DO TO GIVE THEMSELVES MORE TIME IN THE DAY TO GET THE IMPORTANT THINGS DONE…🥇🎖️  ASKING OURSELVES, “WHAT DO I ACTUALLY GIVE A SH*T ABOUT”... LISTING IT OFF: YOUR FAMILY?🎎 FRIENDS? CAREER? HELPING PEOPLE? SAVING THE WORLD? 

🥬🍾🏞️🌏🏝️YOUR CAREER? YOUR SOCIAL LIFE? ARE YOU SPIRITUAL? WHAT PISSES YOU OFF? WHAT MAKES YOU ECSTATIC?🎑🎊🎉  NOTICE WHAT MAKES YOU CARE,🐟🦚🤩🤡💥✌🏻👨‍🏫👨‍🎓👩‍🍳👩‍🔧👨‍💻 WHAT YOU ARE WILLING TO DEVOTE YOURSELF TO WITHOUT FEELING LIKE YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME. THIS IS A VERY PERSONAL PROCESS...THESE ARE YOUR VALUES, THIS IS YOUR TIME ON EARTH BEING SPENT… SO WHY NOT FIND A WAY OF SPENDING IT ON STUFF THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS👩‍🏭👩‍🎤👨‍✈️👨‍🎤👩‍✈️👨‍🎨 

 FIRST OF ALL WE MUST UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR VALUES ARE AS INDIVIDUALS AND WHAT WE FEEL IS IMPORTANT TO US.   MINDSET: IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE A CONSTRICTING TIME RESTRICTION SET ON YOURSELF EACH Day… AND THAT YOU ARE RUNNING IN THE RAT RACE DAILY TRYING TO GO AFTER OUR GOAL…  🤸‍♀️🚵‍♀️  

WE WILL BE STUCK IN A PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE OF STRESS.. CORTISOL🤧 AND ADRENALINE PUMPING THROUGH OUR VEINS, HAMPERING OUR ABILITY TO STAY CALM, FOCUSED AND RELAXED. 🤒😵  KNOW WHAT YOU WANT…   SET TIME SCALES TO YOUR GOALS… 😎  UNDERSTAND HOW TIME AFFECTS YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD… 🤠🤯 

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