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Ohhh. Hi hi hi and big hugs.
Welcome (back) to the continuation of #31Keepsakes…
Thank you for sharing a moment of warmth and reflection tonight….a moment to pause, breathe, and open together a little treasure or keepsake to help you hug your right now and feel the good that you are about this moment.
I’m Tre and just so very grateful you’re choosing to share with me this way.
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READY OURSELVES TO RECEIVE Keepsake #7:
To ready ourselves before we open up the keepsake, we like to
~ cozy up with something warm
~ locate ourselves in a spot that is quiet and where it’s just us
~ still our thoughts and
~ listen to our heart….
So if you need to take a couple of moments to do that, please do and come on back here when you’re ready.
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Hmmm. Okay then…Let’s open open open.
Keepsake #7: Be Protective of our thoughts…..
Roll up your sleeves with me on this one.
Ask yourself 2 questions:
1. Have you ever considered the value of ‘guarding’ your thought oasis?
2. Have you ever intentionally resisted entry or booted out unwanted thoughts?
Well, tonight, that’s what we’re talking about when we open up Keepsake #7: be protective our thoughts.
LET’S LOOK AT THE MEANING
Definition from the dictionary:
- How could I have done that
- I should have done that
- Oh I wished I would have thought of that…
2. impatience
3. frustration
When we listen to the shoulda coulda woulda trio?
They dump, blame, accuse, and worst of all make us dwell on last night, yesterday, last week, 2 weeks ago, a month ago, a year ago, relive the scenario and make us dwell on stuff we can’t change. Not for those moments.
When we allow entry to impatience?
It speeds up our anger and makes us miss the right now because we’re too busy being impatient.
When we mull around in the land of frustration?
Well, we don’t get a whole lot of anything accomplished with a sense of joy. And who wants to mull about this month? That’s the inner Scrooge’s job, not ours. Our job is to squelch the inner scrooge. And keep him out for good (hence the lock).
1. Locking the door of thoughts to shoulda/coulda/woulda:
- defends our right to not be pulled to dwell on the past,
- helps us stay in the right now this moment and
- enables us to be expectant of good (remember? Keepsake #5?)
2. Locking the door to impatience bars out accusation, ridicule and blame lets us stay in the right now and be gentle, grounded, comforted (Keepsakes 1, 2, and 3)
3. Locking the door to frustrations lets us excercise our ‘in ~charge-ness (Keepsake 4), forbids annoyance and let’s us be calm (keepsake 6).
See why the lock is so important? 🙂
HOW I USE THE LOCK:
I do 1, 2, 3 several times a day :). I really do.
If shoulda/coulda/would tries to creep in, bammo up goes the lock.
If impatient tries to wheezle in, bammo again, it’s so outa there.
If frustrations occur, and they adore rising up when I’m learning something new, bammo again! Up goes the lock.
Here’s a secret: we are always in the right now.
So whatever we chose last night seemed right for our then right now.
And whatever we chose 2 weeks ago seemed right for our then right then now.
See?
Keeping it super simple, we are learning how to stay in the now and be true to our hearts.
And we are growing and learning and being truer to our hearts daily, hourly.
Whenever the pull to second guess a choice I made comes, I bolt the lock.(I kick out that pull first).
I’m not a bit opposed to self assessment and growth, goodness no.
But, I forbid the tendency to beat myself up about a choice that maybe wasn’t as wise as I’d choose now.
TAKE IT WITH YOU
Tonight, as you’re tucking up, think about anything you’re holding onto that you’ve been upset with yourself about.
A choice you made.
A behavior you expressed.
An attitude you harbored.
And if so?
Give yourself permission to boot those accusations out of thought and lock the door and forbid their re-entry.
It may sound simple.
I know it’s not.
But it is vital.
Protecting our thoughts from would be intruders of condemnation is perhaps one of the most important investments I’ve made with my thoughts over the past recent years.
If you need help doing this for yourself, please be in touch. I welcome the opportunity to work with you.
So…
There you have it friend: Keepsake #7: Be protective of our thoughts.
Can’t wait to hear how you’ll use this one…starting this moment!
Big hugs til the next keepsake…..
Tre ~
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*** WELCOME NEW READERS TO #31 KEEPSAKES 🙂
All we’ve opened is right here waiting for you too!!!! 🙂
These keepsakes have a background story, the why for why I am offering them.
You can read about that here: Why the 31 Keepsakes?
If we were in a room, picture a big wonderfully bountiful trunk housing a bounty of overflowing keepsakes, plenty to go around and not stuck in some corner far from view but right in the center of a gathering circle.
Start here Keepsake #1: Be Gentle
then go here: Keepsake #2: Be Grounded
then go here: Keepsake #3: Be Comfort
next, go here: Keepsake #4: Be in ~ charge
next, go here::) Keepsake #5: Be expectant of good
and for last night’s keepsake, go here: Keepsake #6: Be Calm
You don’t have to peak at any of these just yet if you want to stay right with us…whatever you are most comfy with. 🙂
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