Do you realize it yet???

Our minds are so so powerful.......they have the power to expand or shrink our lives, to help us feel confined...... or free, motivated..... or drained, happy..... or sad...you get the idea......but the world really begins and ends in our minds, and what we feed our experience......I really believe that so fully.....and it is in the decisions we make.....the work we do....the time we spend, where a new experience, and narrative can be created.......I know and see so many people that feel awful, and are so overwhelmed and unhappy.....and it hurts my heart for them.....because it doesn't have to be that way.....and I know because at one time....in my 20s....my mind was absolutely a dumpster fire, and again at the end of my marriage.....two big places that required me to claw my way out of the prison of my mind.....and it can be done.....I am proof.....so I speak from a place of understanding and compassion, not judgement and having no understanding.....I have not just accidentally found wellness in my mind and soul......I have worked REALLY hard at it.....and what we FEED our minds is the key.....and where we choose to place our attention.....what we choose to LET IN.....and it is why I do the work I do, and believe in it so deeply.....mindset CHANGES EVERYTHING...........EVERYTHING.........and taking the time to shift our mindset is the most important work.....lamenting and rolling around in what is......versus accepting it, and making a plan to move beyond it, is completely different work......and one brings wild unhappiness, and the other brings freedom and peace....but why I write about it today again, is that I have been watching some things about neuroscience, and the science behind it all.....and how it relates to manifesting our lives.....and I have been watching SO many people lately suffer at the hands of their mindsets:( And the work to shift it is worth all of the energy.....that is what I just watched happen in my coaching series....the women go from wondering how they were going to overcome their exercise obstacles....feeling so low in regards to exercise when I met them at the beginning of April, to overcoming their mindset as we chatted through it....and making a plan and doing it! Their last session found them bubbly and smiley and happily talking about their future plans to keep going and feeling confident doing so! MAGIC:) And the change happened IN THEIR MIND, before it happened physically.......so I challenge you if you are reading this to really look at your mindset.....how is it hurting you? Or how is it contributing to your growth and expansion? And maybe it is! Which I love for you:) But maybe it isn't? I know for me, that as soon as it dips, I can feel it so much sooner now, because I feel good so often.....and I immediately try and pick it back up.....a hike....a meditation.....a workout......music......chatting with a friend, something......to shift the low stuff......and again I want to make it CLEAR that I don't think we should shoo away our pain......we should feel it ALL, and work with it.....and our moods.......but what I mean is the staying stuck.....I work with a woman that has been in a bad mood since I met her 20 years ago! :( And I feel awful for her.....it all becomes a habit......we get comfortable feeling how we have felt, and we get comfortable feeling good too:) So today I challenge you to feed the good:) I am taking 4th graders on a field trip today, so say a prayer lol:) Mindset matters.....and I am always here for anybody that wants to work on theirs, and move themselves forward:) Reach out:) Have a great day:)