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Morning Meditation from The GratiDude
I’m telling you I have found a surefire way to get yourself out of a messed up or bad mood or a funk as it’s often called. Because when you think about it, funk in a negative sense is not the good kind of funk like Parliament, funkadelic or Bootsy Collins kind of Funk but the bad kind that you don’t wanna have around.
When that hits you what’s going on is most definitely 100% of the time and ego-based reaction, you are feeling something in the realm of fear can need for control or something having to do with a disruption of your very fragile ego construct as it’s called.
When that dark cloud hits you, doing even the smallest thing for someone else reestablishes your awareness of the interconnectedness of all of us and the relative insignificance or the transient nature of whatever difficult situation you’re going through.
No matter what the situation, including the gravest and most difficult situation, such as grieving the loss of life of the Deere loved one time and processing of emotion and integrating the experience. You can move forward and resume your life and be productive and happy again.
As my brother Shawn always tells me those moments “if it’s still hurts it just means that it ain’t over.”
And dammit he’s always right when he says that, and it makes me laugh and pisses me off simultaneously as you might be able to relate to.
I don’t talk about it much because otherwise it comes across as being self-serving and it’s not the reason why I do it, but for the sake of this example the other day, I immediately jumped in my car and went down the street and gave out fresh new clean, dry socks that I keep in my car at all times.
I’ve posted about it once before, but I buy bulk socks on Amazon and that cheap when you buy 100 pairs at a time or more and socks are the number one thing that unhoused people need for health, well-being and comfort outside of shelter and food.
It’s also humbling and a reminder of me that I’m no better than any of those addicts or folks suffering from mental illness out there on the street and I easily could’ve been one of those with just a couple of more turns in the wrong direction. I certainly had the potential for addiction and from there with the wrong moment and the wrong experimental drug I could easily another statistic.
And when I hand out the socks to the men and women, I do it a really humble way and I just go yeah man so hard to keep socks dry out here when it rains every five minutes and I also tell them that I love them just so they can hear it.
Just casually…like “it’s all good bro you know I love you, man.”
Or I slide in “God wants us all to have clean, dry socks, bro you know that.”
Which is nothing compared to this young woman here in the video who just lost her 12-year-old brother and all she can think about is how she wants to help other people, and that there are other people suffering and have it worse than her.
I love her so much.
She is so incredible.
Watch all of it please.
If you’re not sure whether certain behaviors or actions or practices merit your time or energy, I can tell you one way to test it out. Fast-forward to your deathbed or two when you’re in that assisted living facility and you don’t have any more liberty to choose where you go and when you go somewhere.
I guarantee you will never regret any moments that you spent helping and assisting other people.
That will be something you will look back and cherish as one of the more useful practices and endeavors that you experienced in your lifetime.
Conversely behavior that is self-serving, self-absorbed, inconsiderate, or selfish will be the very equivalent of the under the mattress for the princess and cause you on ending discomfort that you addressed, and release will be relentless.
Small choices every day make the difference, and it starts by staying connected to your breath so that you give your higher self and the voice of something bigger than you the chance to have a fair audience and compete for airtime with your tiny little ego voice.
I cannot overestimate the importance of your breathing and learning to become comfortable in stillness.
Your stillness has all your answers.
My stillness has all my answers.
Do you see how that works?
That’s all for today as I’m going to go put a peg in the ground and chase a ball around with my homeboy Roberto Dinero out there at Laurel Oak, which is Managed by my Mentor and Partner, Big Daddy MG Orender, the legend, and the hammer.
Wish me luck I’m a bit rusty on the Links, but I always have my speaker charged with my 70-proof sunscreen pasted on and an attitude of gratitude in the bag.
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KC
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