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Time To Make A Daily Date With A Gratitude Story
If it ain’t in your calendar, it ain’t happenin’…

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Making A Daily Date With A Gratitude Story

This time we’re looking at the power of the Monkey Mind – your thinking mind – and its addiction to story-telling; especially the stories you tell yourself.

One of the things I have found with one-to-one clients and seminar students over the past decade is that they’re all as good as I am at telling themselves stories. We have spent most of our lives training our minds to evaluate, discuss, critique, re-tell, ‘what-if’, rehearse and even embellish stories about what goes on in life.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]

It’s not the experience that hurts; it’s the story we tell ourselves about it.

These stories often run in the background, half-unnoticed, while we’re doing other things. But they’re still there. The problem with these stories is that, whether you experience the event for real or just tell yourself a story about it, those thoughts trigger the same shifts in your body’s chemistry and emotions, as though the event were really happening.

Your body can’t tell the difference between what is ‘here’ and your mind’s stories. It treats them all as real.

So if we tell ourselves an angry story, we get angry sensations in our body and feel angry emotions. Tell yourself a happy story and your auto-pilot happy hormones are released, triggering the physical and emotional experience of happiness for you.

With this next gratitude technique, you can experiment with deliberately using this auto-pilot response, to shift our experience of life. It’s really simple. And it works! It’s a great way to tame and retrain your Monkey Mind to concentrate on gratitude, rather than complaining.

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Here’s a crib sheet for this week’s project. Click the image to view online. Right click it and choose ‘save as’ to download it.
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It’s time to pause for a snapshot!

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• How are you getting on so far? What are you noticing? Any insights? Any questions? Here’s where to share.

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• I’m curious: can you feel how important gratitude is becoming in your life yet?

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