Hello and Happy Wednesday morning! We are almost in the mid-week. So, today's title for today's episode is How I Got Inspired Before During and After Watching this video. The subtitle is, I Got Inspired By The Title, Content and Delivery.
As you know, my model for creating podcast episodes is to first think, write, have my articles published, self-published or published in publications, send it to publications and they will publish and then that will be my content for regarding my podcast episode. Here is the yet another revelation which I would like to share is that when I, when I, okay, let me now gather my thoughts. My article is already published, right? So I'm opening that article and I'm reading it aloud for you.
I'm bringing my emotions, my guest years, my feelings while I'm talking to you, right? It's like revision, it's like doing a revision for an examination. I'm an old schooler in my 60-days, whatever. So, it's like, okay, my teacher taught me this lesson and then we used to do a lot of writing in those days.
Writing and I used to read aloud and memorize. Yes, my schooling was in India, we do a lot of memorizing guys. It was not application oriented fully. I think it was good that we were asked to memorize.
So, I won't give 100% marks for that but then 50% I will take that memorizing. The technique was good for us. Okay, anyway, I don't want to digress in the top. So, when I'm reading aloud, my own article in front of the mirror and creating as a podcast episode, there are a lot of things happening actually.
Probably, involuntarily, I'm also working on the communication skills, right? Maybe public speaking skills. Okay, so, and also I get to internalize what I wrote before and it helps me become a better writer, a better thinker, a better broadcaster and also I started my YouTube shots and also how to show up in my videos too. Okay, with that said, I'm going to repeat the title for today and that is How I Got Inspired Before During and After Watching this video.
The subtitle is, I got inspired by the title, content and delivery. I've been contemplating writing this piece for the past few days. You may ask, why? I watched the following interesting video on the internet about the tendency of our brain and how to train to be happy.
Immediately, I wanted to share it with you. So, in my article, I've given the link to the TED talk. Okay, I cannot see the title of the TED talk while I'm recording this episode, but it's something about happy brain, whatever. So I felt that I came in the way of my immediate need by setting conditions like, Hey, Lolita, don't just forward the link in the status, but write about it in your own words.
I don't know whether it's ego or block or whatever. I got the same words again and again as said in the video to describe what I learned. Oh my God, it's not everybody, guys. It's the childhood we have learning memory, right?
Road learning. Okay, has it happened to you? I felt like a loser. Love out loud.
Hello, man. Then I wrote some words and paragraphs and closed the draft. That's it. I allowed it in the draft for a couple of days.
Before watching the video, I got inspired by the eye-catching title and the credibility of the person. Today, I'm intending by giving myself a deadline to complete this piece of writing and send it to the publishers. Anyway, giving credit to the creator, I've given the link to the TED talk and accepting that I am totally influenced by the words of wisdom shared in the video. After putting it off for a couple of days and processing all my thoughts and emotions, here is the summary of what I learned and grasped.
Humans have a neural within bracket relating to the nerve or nervous system tendency to be unhappy. Can you believe it, guys? Humans have a neural tendency to be unhappy. We have two modes of the brain.
Number one, focused more to process information and keep us engaged. Two, default mode that keeps our mind wandering, this happens 50 to 80% of the time. In addition, humans have the evolutionary predisposition within bracket tendency to suffer from a particular condition to focus on threats and negative bias. These neural predispositions keep us from enjoying life.
Happiness has very little to do with the resources we have. It is an inner state of mind that needs to be cultivated, cultivated like a garden. Few practices to train the brain to be happy. Number one, morning gratitude meditation.
Think of five people you are grateful for. In this video, Amit Sood takes you virtually and I've given the number 9.16 minute to 10.56 minutes to five persons by engaging your five senses and expressing your gratitude. I love the part where you connect with your eight-year-old self. This practice will help you focus on what is most important in your life.
I have a gratitude journal. Actually, I started off with separate gratitude journal, start my day journal, thoughts and feelings journal, conversations with a higher self journal. So now I have a notebook where I have separate pages and then I just journal them. Sometimes it gets mixed also.
My manager or the data manager, he says, hey, I don't want to manage your data in two different folders, different books. Come on, come to one and we can put one search. We can put a search module or something and later on, we want to search something. We can do it.
So we can do it. Okay. Number two, afternoon validation intention and appreciation. When you feel like you are being judged and your self esteem is low, think about three people who care for you.
Guys, who care for you. It will bring you back into joy. I have been doing this actually. I've been doing this without my knowledge, without knowing the scientific reason.
The idea is not to think and be in a low mood, which is quite normal, but how quickly you can bring back yourself up to joy. Number three, the second moment of intentionality is when you get back home. See how novelty beats love. My God, I loved it, man.
Novelty beats love. The key is to find novelty where love is to the key is to find novelty where love is. The idea is to meet your family each day intentionally as if you do after 30 days. I love it.
For the first three minutes, when you are with your family, don't try to improve anybody. We do it all the time and especially from the Indian descent. We genuinely interested in what is of interest to them and creatively place. I love it.
Number four, when you see a stranger, you will tend to judge that person and it takes a few seconds to judge if that person is trustworthy or not. Giving kind the attention is very important than judging. So important, guys. I'm going to tell it again because it will sink into every cell of my body.
Giving kind attention is very important than attention. Sorry, judging. Even if it is in your mind and you don't say it aloud. When you see people for the first two seconds before you start judging the person negatively or neutrally align your heart and say a silent prayer, I wish you well.
Here's the thing. My sentence is something different. It's on similar lines. I say the divine in me goes to divine in you.
I don't know. The moment you have used the word divine, I am no longer thinking about how that person looks or how that person is looking at me or maybe that's about the looks and then what he will think or what she will think or how she will feel or how she will process. All those things are just not me. So when I say this, the divine in me goes to divine in you and yet another mantra that I have is I love you.
I thank you. I forgive you. I feel loved by you. I feel thankful by you and I feel forgiven by you.
Don't go into grammar, guys. But there is something here where I'm organically exchanging good, good vibes and it's like it's like adding to your oxytocin tank. Number five, once your attention is in your control, then reframe life challenges using higher order principles. What are those?
This is very important, guys. Gratitude, compassion, acceptance, meaning and forgiveness. Please note it down, guys. Try to bring yourself on gratitude mode, compassion mode, acceptance mode.
Is it meaningful to me that meaning and forgiveness? Okay, let it go, man. Since I speak in the choroyar and in Tamil also, Mitudu. Okay.
Have I trained my brain to be happy? Absolutely. How? Just by completing this piece, by helping my brain to move from the thought that I am a loser to staying in just two and a loser to from thought from that thought to staying in the game and completing this piece by smiling right now and feeling it in my entire body and telling my brain.
I'm happy now. Have I trained you to be happy? LOL. Okay, shout out to Klybya Fidelity for writing a wonderful article that I cannot describe in my own words, but her words are more powerful.
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