the elevator ride back to joy
‘You can’t be grumpy if you are grateful’.
I saw this quote today.
Loved it.
It’s so true!
You can’t be grumpy or if you are, it won’t last long with the application of a bit of gratituding.
It reminds me of the books I read in the early days of my spiritual curiosity. Rhonda Byrne’s ‘The Secret’, ‘The Hero’, ‘The Power’ and in this case the reminder of the ‘The Magic’.
Gratitude is the magic that brings our attention to what matters, and in doing so reminds us of what we love and in turn brings us a feeling of abundance and joy.
Brené Brown talks about this too from her research of ‘happy people’. What she found is that the most joyful people were the people who practiced the most gratitude.
“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
A simple practice but a practice I hadn’t practised before!
I was always looking for what I could improve, what could be better, looking for mistakes & errors to correct and what was missing. It was my ‘job’. Risk mitigation & continual improvement. Why waste time on what was good or working?
But in my life, starting a daily gratitude practice – written in a journal helped me rewire my brain to see the good first before looking for the improvements. It brought a balanced perspective.
It served me well when the shit hit the fan.
I practised it and practised it more! IT was my most well honed tool losing my Mumbo little by little and then losing pretty much everything else that came after….
Intentional gratitude has become mainstream.
Who hasn’t done a 10 a day gratitude practice online?
They were prolific in Lockdown – I think I even ran one!
But now, my brain feels wired to gratitude as a baseline, a subconcious state of being, rather than a conscious act.
It’s an attitude.
It’s an embodied practice in the moment.
It’s an immediate elevator ride back to joy if I find myself sliding down the Hawkins Scale of frequencies.
I mean I do get grumpy.
Of course.
Mostly when I have had interrupted sleep (teens or Morts’ snoring) but as one of my clients pointed out (mirror up to self moment!) and reminded me I would miss them if they weren’t there lying next to me or failing to come home… so I return to gratitude for their presence, safety, health and put in ear plugs! and when they don’t work - I move in to another room!
I also get grumpy when someone else is projecting their energy on to me and I feel like I am under a heavy weight of resentment that actually has nothing to do with me but their perception of me. I say someone but if I am honest, it is the people I am closest to I feel it from most. And I have more to say on this but I will leave that until tomorrow…
Until then I will remain in the energy of gratitude and let grumpiness pass.
The Roast chicken is almost roasted and I can smell it’s deliciousness….
So from my desk in my boardroom, to perhaps your bedroom as your read before bed, … this is your reminder to be brilliant in the boardroom, the bedroom & in your body.
Love always
Ali xo
#remindertobebrilliant #thebrilliantyears #livebrilliantlyalive
“You light up lives Ali and the ripple effect keeps flowing outward like an enormous ship going out to sea, leaving wave upon wave behind touching hearts and sending inspiration through each spray and ripple.”
