Good morning everyone, happy Sunday! Today's topic is this funny dialogue between thoughts and emotions works. And the subtopic is befriend your thoughts and emotions. So this was published in medium.com medium publications.
And yeah, I'm going to go ahead and read what was published because I thought I've crafted the article. It's written and published and so let's get with it. I've been thinking of doing an episode for the last three days. Somehow I've been putting off because I had other things which are going on.
So you know what, I'm going to first tell myself, yeah, I did put off writing the podcast episode. But I did show up myself spontaneously for some of the events which I never even expected. Like I attended a wonderful performance, violin performance in person by a combination and combination. I have never even heard of them but one of my friends said, hey come on will you come with me?
I need some company. I said wow, I love to attend performances. But then I don't set an intention to go for performances and things like that. I'm kind of lazy in that aspect of, you know, desiring, wanting and getting it done.
I'm more off behind the screen person. With that said, I said, I showed up for that spontaneous event and I showed up for many of my garden and walking outside events which normally of course in winter, you don't do much of those. So I'm seeing that I'm not showing up for some of the intentions like writing and podcasting as regularly as I used to show up in winter. You know what, I'm going to tell myself, hey Lili, that's completely okay.
You are a human being and you can't do it all. It's okay. It's okay. The first thing is you have to be loving and compassionate to yourself so that you fill yourself with love and love and love.
You fill yourself with love and compassion, not in an egoistic way, but in a very, very old compassionate lady or a man or a man or a woman who advises you. It's okay. That type of conversation I'm having with a little, little, little, little baby that I inside of me so that I can fill myself with love and compassion. And that overflows when I speak to you, my dear lovely audience, and give that love and compassion so that you can fill your entire body, soul or whatever it is with love and compassion and talk in a similar way to your inner child.
I would say inner infant. You know, infant doesn't know anything, but it's full of curiosity, full of love, just wanting to, just seeking for love from everybody, right? So connect with that inner baby inside of you. Anyway, I'm going to start my podcast reading my article.
I'm a person who believes and learns to be in the present moment and not worry too much about the future, but again in a responsible way. It's not that I don't care about the future, but then I want to be in prison. I'm always training myself. How can I be in the present moment?
Okay. And then work in this particular situation. Okay. That's what I mean by in a responsible way.
Today's writing prompt. It's again a writing prompt, you know, advised by one of the sub- publications. So today's writing prompt actually scares me. Okay.
What is the writing prompt? What do you need to do by the end of the year to make this year meaningful? So the question is what do you need to do? Okay.
Okay. Now this is my emotional brain. That is my emotional brain. Okay.
So I'm deciding to go through this fear by creatively writing the conversation between my emotional brain. Let's call it TV, AB, sorry, AB and the thinking brain, the TB. Now, TB, thinking brain is asking, why are you scared? Because emotional brain is saying, well, the word scares comes up at the spur of the moment.
The truth is I'm so used to being in the moment, in the present moment, learning about it and finding value in living in the present moment. But I don't like hearing this type of question about future. What will you do in future? Hey, life is unpredictable, right?
Kobe does start us a lot. Okay. Now, this is the TB. Okay.
Thinking brain. Answer from the thinking brain. Hmm. Okay.
After writing and conversing with me and taking a deep breath, how do you feel? How do you feel? AB, emotional brain. I feel great thinking brain.
How does that show up in your body? Any sensations? Emotional brain. I'm breathing deeply.
Three deep breaths. Inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth. I am feeling happy. I am thoroughly enjoying typing and answering your question, the prompt question.
I don't have any sensation that is bothering, which normally shows up when I am emotionally disturbed. I have sensations in my body and having worked on my emotions, thoughts, body, using different strategies, now I know where my emotions shows up as a sensation in my body. Sometimes it's in my chest, inside of my chest. As though something is not right.
As though the breath is when I breathe, it's not going into a deep breathing into my body. I don't feel it in my heart or lungs or whatever. I'm not talking in a medical way, but I'm just saying as a very colloquial way. I don't feel that complete breathing in and out, in and out, in and out.
So the sensation is somewhere in the center of my chest. Sometimes it's in my stomach. Sometimes it's in my throat. It's like, you know, I can't gulp and I can't speak or something.
I won't express something, but I'm not able to express. You know that type of a thing? So I know that those sensations are there. But now after this writing conversation between thinking brain and emotional brain, I'm taking the deep breath.
Wow. None of those sensations are there. They have all disappeared. That's what I meant by saying.
And those sensations do bother me. Do bother me. Okay. And I don't have any of those.
Sorry guys. Okay. Now the thinking brain is saying, okay. Now can you answer today's prompt question?
Now can you answer today's prompt question? Emotional brain. Absolutely. Now thinking brain is saying, go ahead.
Emotional brain. Ha ha ha. I feel so funny about the whole thing. I don't need to do anything to make this ear meaningful.
I don't need to be scared either. I don't need to do anything to make this ear meaningful. And I don't need to be scared either. I can choose.
The key word is choose. I can choose to embrace my strength, to embrace my strength of being present in the moment, which is actually more meaningful for me. Being present in the moment for any work, for anything, any event, any experience is more important. That is more meaningful for me.
If you're not what is meaningful for you guys. Okay. So I can choose to embrace, embrace my strength of being in the present moment to answer this question. Thinking brain.
Come to the point, Lalita, please. Sorry. Emotional brain. Right now.
I'm already living by following a meaningful be-marry model. Meaningful body. Physical. Meaningful.
Meaningful. That means taking care of my body. Meaningfully. Taking care of my emotions.
Meaningfully. Studying about it. Learning about it. Processing about it.
Implementing. Testing it out. What I read. What I watch.
By just implementing it my own self. Then M. B. Body.
Emotions. M. Mind. E.
Environment. R. Relationships. And I.
Ideas and Concepts. So that is be-marry. So again I'm going to read that. Right now.
I'm already living by following a meaningful be-marry model. By consciously integrating body. Emotions. Mind.
Environment. Relationships. And ideas. Ideas and Concepts.
I. Ideas and Concepts. To make this year meaningful. I want to become better.
By doing at least one activity every day in each of the following domains. Look. First the emotional brain was scared. Emotional brain conversed with the thinking brain.
Now look. The answer is popping up. Okay. So what is it?
I want to become better. That's it. Become better. Not do.
Not earn so much of money. Not hold this or this. Blah blah blah. Become better.
Okay. That's what my life experiences start me at age 62 plus. Okay. Sorry guys.
When I speak a lot I have the sensation that through. That's another thing. Okay. So I want to become better by doing at least one activity every day in each of the following domains.
To keep my body healthy and active. B. To learn about emotions and get better at handling them. E.
To keep my mind active by learning new things. New things. M. To become aware of my physical environment and keep it clean to the best of my ability.
Environment. E. To end relationships with family and friends and fellow human beings. R.
To understand ideas. I. And concepts. And share my knowledge.
You know especially with so much of evolution. Quick evolution. Quick evolution. Digital.
Digital revolution. And then so many things are changing quickly. Right. So I want to understand ideas and concepts and share my knowledge.
I would like to give a shout out to Nul Bostani for very detailed statistics on what to focus on when it comes to making money through medium partnership programs. Thank you Nul Bostani. And thank you for reading. I have quoted one of my previous articles.
Try this. Interrupt Changing Others. Go ahead guys. Go and read that.
With that said. I just want to say a very happy Sunday. And also go ahead and check this article. Check the podcast.
As I said. You can subscribe to my article. There is a link for getting emails. You can also listen to my podcast.
And since this podcast is available in various platforms. I really do not know what is the call to action that I should add at the end because you can subscribe and Spotify or Apple or whatever whatever. So I have no idea and I have no statistics to track. Okay.
But I do have statistics in my Spotify. That's the one platform that I use to record this episodes. These episodes. And then I do see that interestingly even though I'm in my 60s my target market seems to be in 30s.
You know, 20s to 40s. So they seem to be interested in listening to my podcast and reading my articles. Yeah. I'm not so great in using this to have a search engine optimization.
And that's not I don't think that's my true interest or a real want also the real want in the phrase. Invert it. Come on. Whatever.
But with that said, I want to end this episode and you have a fantastic day and enjoy every moment of your day. Thank you. Bye bye.