31 Keepsakes continues with Keepsake #4: Be in ~ charge (of our thoughts)

Hello and Welcome to the sharing of 31 Keepsakes: 31 Days and 31 Ways to Love, ourselves and one another, throughout this holiday season and perhaps throughout the New Year.

We’re kinda practical here though and right now only focused on these next 27 days. 🙂 Hee.

Each of these keepsakes are gifts for you, treasures I’ve found help me to

• mommy my heart,
• mentor my moments and
• marry my life.

And I’m sharing 10 keepsakes for each of those arenas in that order.

Sorta.

That’s the goal anyway. But every now and again, my inner Scrooge comes a knocking.

Did you hear what my Inner Scrooge tried to convince me just yesterday? The nerve…

But dont you worry bout a thing.

I’m mastering being gentle (Keepsake#1) and being grounded (keepsake #2) and having great success booting out my inner Scrooge.

For now. 🙂

How like him thought, trying to sabotage the Keepsake wonderfulness. You can relate I’m sure, how we go about our days with the best of intentions and whammo, outa nowhere it seems there comes the inner Scrooge. Methinks today’s keepsake will help curtail his intrusions.

Oh, where are my manners. Hugs to you if this is your first visit. Don’t you worry bout a thing. You can enjoy all the Keepsake yum by taking a peek

here: Keepsake #1: Be Gentle

and here: Keepsake #2: Be Grounded

and here: Keepsake #3: Be Comfort

and now we’re about to open our 4th…but first….:) we need to create our setting.

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Create your setting:

We do this with each keepsake. We choose a space that is all ours where we won’t be disturbed by ‘other’ while we’re opening. And we take a few moments to calm our thoughts and ready them to receive the keepsake. So go ahead and create your setting.

* What matters most to me is that you find a quiet space to sit in or stand in that’s already yours while you read this one. If you don’t have access to your own space, maybe find a quiet corner somewhere where you can sit undisturbed, and trust me, I’ve made the quietest corners out of parking spaces or park benches or even standing waiting for a subway.

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Keepsake #4: Be in ~ charge

For this keepsake, we’re going to:

a) think of a memory to rekindle the meaning

b) hear why I chose this keepsake

c) think together about how to use it

d) consider how you can begin right now using it

Let’s open up Keepsake #4: Be in ~charge

The meaning of Be in ~ charge

Meaning: Be in ~charge is often associated with obligation and requirement (see definition). Ask yourself: when is the last time you thought of yourself as being ‘obligated” to what you think? or given that charge?

Kinda cause for pause huh? Yep. I know.

For this sense of “Being in~charge”, I’m thinking less militaristic, less harsh in other words, and a lot more calm and gentle authority like Julie Andrews in Sound of Music. 🙂 For this meaning of ‘Be ~ in charge,’ it’s the idea of owning the moment, being obligated to your thoughts at every moment…

Visuals Kay…for this one? Instead of thinking about an object, let’s think back to an experience.

Try to remember being little and remember something you owned that was very important to you.

Maybe it was your doll, or toolbox, or jumprope, or pet, or treehouse.

But it was yours.

Take a few moments to think back.

Kay got it?

Now think about how  you developed a great sense of ownership with that childhood ‘keepsake.’

You probably looked forward each day to spending time with it.

You decided how you were going to use it, when, where, what you would do with it, and who would be allowed to share it with you.

Remember?

Why I chose this Keepsake: Be in~charge of thought

(For those new to opening the keepsakes, this is the section I talk about how this keepsake helps me mommy my heart).

We own our thoughts. So we wanna stay in ~charge of them.

When you make a conscious effort to obligate or take responsibility for your thoughts, we discern more readily what we are going to allow ourselves to focus on, what we are going to allow ourselves to think, what we are going to allow ourselves be influenced by or not. In short we mommy our moments when we take charge of thought. So in giving you this keepsake to be in ~charge of your thoughts, it’s an invitation to explore that whole concept. 🙂

How we can use this Keepsake:

We need to be in charge of our thoughts. So this means just as much holding and comforting as it means be discerning and selective on what we ponder.

Tip to try: See if you’re stewing on anything. The moment you are, use this keepsake. Be in charge of your thoughts. Don’t allow yourself to stew, fester, dwell. Own the moment. Be in~charge. Start seeing ways to kick out the inner Scrooge (the Bah Humbug voice).

Leave a comment below how using this keepsake or any of the others is working for you (or what you get stuck on).

So grateful we’re sharing this together. 😉

Big hugs til the 5th Keepsake…

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*If you want to talk in more depth about how to use the Keepsakes, send me an email at tre at thought by thought dot net. Looking forward to talking with you more.