The Daily G.I.F.T. from The GratiDude

Take a deep breath and come back to your own life. It’s waiting with your Higher-Self.

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The G.I.F.T. Today

Grateful-to realize that my life experience is continuing to expand and that I am attracting higher vibrations and dynamic personalities.

Intention-moments of meditation stitched together by long exhales

First-make sure we have some Joe for Joe ha ha

Things-edits and updates

Morning Platitude from The GratiDude

Even if we are fully present, mentally, and emotionally, all of our best efforts can fall short. We overshoot our target, our timing was off, or we misjudged the energy of the other players we are participating with, in any case the result is something less than what we had hoped for.

This is going to happen almost every day for us so the real question is how are you going to recover?

This could be a big learning opportunity, which most people call failures(that word is so full of baggage and bullshit and fear and generally speaking, keeps people from trying anything because they’re so scared of failing that’s a whole other blog topic I think), or something small such as a typo in an email.

No matter how big or how small the situation, the event, or the outcome treating yourself with kindness and grace in facing your shortcomings is always the rule of engagement. It does no good to beat yourself up when you find yourself making a mistake when instead you should be celebrating the spirit of giving a shit and noticing you made a mistake and caring.

As I’ve written here before, I learned this lesson firsthand when I was caught by a world-renowned neuroscientist, Mr. Joseph McClendon III calling myself an idiot for making a mistake in an email I was rereading that I had already sent to a golf course owner. This was in 2002 in Doran Andry’s opulent offices in the Irvine Orange County area.

When Joseph a.k.a. “Coach” pulled me into the conference room and explained what I was doing to myself by talking to myself that way and conversely what the opportunity was to begin positive self-talk through daily affirmations. It was a life-changing moment that I’ll never forget.

This experience was made possible through the kindness of Doran Andry who I was visiting that day to go have lunch with and mentored me and was completely generous opening kind with a guy that he just met on an airplane only months prior.

So just like Coach called me into the conference room and explained to me the magic in the power of neuroscience for our own personal happiness and self-development, I am likewise committed and I feel obligated to share all these tricks and hacks with all of you because I love everyone everywhere all the time every day.

That’s how I feel.

This applies to your moment-to-moment life by being forgiving and kind to yourself when you notice that you have become disconnected from your breathing. Even wise old yoga instructors will tell you that everyone gets disconnected from their breath, some more often than others and the key is just being kind and graceful in the return.

A way to look at it is in your internal dialogue instead of saying “look what you’ve done you’re holding your breath. This is why you’re feeling anxiety. You need to start breathing regularly right now!”

You can instead be kind and have fun and say something like” wouldn’t it be nice to be present and to take a deep breath right now?”

Yes, higher-self, it would be cool to come back to the generous present moment of now.

I’ll take that deep breath now thank you.