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Ep 74 Why journaling is a powertool for corporate leaders · The Pausecast

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  Hey, happy New Year, friends and leaders all around.
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  I am excited because first of all, it's the new year and what
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  better way to start a new year than to journal to write down,
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  what is it that you are envisioning for this year to
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  come or for this year, that will be different.
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  What do you want to leave behind?
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  What are the things? This is the time of of We're
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  Dreaming is peaking for most of us.
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  So this episode is dedicated to journaling.
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  Pause the journal came out almost a year ago and it is such
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  a powerful tool. That's why I created this
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  episode really aligned and designed for corporate people,
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  all of our peeps in the corporate world.
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  We don't talk about journaling too much but believe it or not,
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  I actually made this journal. There's a whole section in here
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  and how to use it for teams. How you can use it to really
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  Have a unified field so to speak where we're all working on the
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  same goal or project, let's say. And you can actually all process
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  it through journaling, whether its individual.
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  And then you come together to talk about what that process is
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  like. It's actually a really cool
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  concept and I'm excited to hear if any of you are up for trying
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  it. Well, let me know because I
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  actually haven't heard of anyone using it in reporting back in
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  the work world and I would love to find out.
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  So, and with that, go ahead. Head and check out this episode,
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  which is all about using journaling as a power tool.
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  Hi, I'm Rachel O'Meara. I'm the host of the podcast.
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  I'm also the author of pause harnessing, the life-changing
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  can. All learn.
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  And that's what the paws cast is all about.
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  Well, I again, Rachel here, and today, I am excited to talk
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  about why journaling is a power tool for leaders.
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  It's a power tool for everyone but really for corporate world.
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  Leaders Executives. My sense is it gives you an edge
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  that will help you be more strategic, be more, productive
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  be more, clear and confident everything you do no joke.
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  So let's jump into why journaling is a power tool for
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  you as a leader in the world of corporate.
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  And if you don't know this, I have a journal called pause the
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  journal. I have it right here.
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  In front of me, it's called pause the journal.
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  It came out this February and it's about how to use
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  intentional writing to create your dreams.
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  It's 90 days of journaling and prompts and blank pages, so that
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  you can maximize this as a power tool.
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  So, if you're who's Journal Journal fan these days, who here
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  is a fan, just let me no, give yourself a high five in the air
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  or pat on the back. If you are Journal, are right
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  now, maybe you're more like me. Like, literally, I am
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  intermittent journal or some people are intermittent.
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  Fasters, I'm an intimate and journal or meaning.
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  I'll go journal for, like, 10 days and I won't journal for
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  like a little while, and then I'll go back in, and I'll do
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  like four days. And then I want you at all, or
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  maybe I'll do a couple days, but I really just depends on my
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  needs, and I know, I sense when I need it.
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  So whether you're a intermittent journal or like me, or Journal
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  fan, Fnatic are you just kind of like nope, journaling is not my
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  thing. It's all good.
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  And and if you actually on that side of the spectrum where
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  you're saying, yeah you know what if it's just not for me,
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  cool, like I love that you're here.
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  Even to be open to possibilities of what's different.
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  Because what I'm going to share with you, my just tempt you to
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  try it again. Okay.
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  So here's what's going on with journaling and I think this stat
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  speaks for itself, but overall when you Journal your well-being
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  and your mute mood can Can improve.
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  And what that means is we've, we've actually had research done
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  where if you journal for, as little as two minutes a day for
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  even two consecutive days then in actually has to be
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  emotionally significant for you, right?
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  So it's not like, I went to the store, I bought bread, I came
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  home and went to bed, like, that's a little dry, right?
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  So it's literally like timer for 2 minutes.
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  Did you experience today and how did it emotionally significant?
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  How was it emotionally significant for you research
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  tells us that it improves your mood and well-being.
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  I think that's pretty amazing eyesight that all the time and
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  it's true, right? So we're actually allowing our
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  brains to design our future which is actually the next
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  reason why it's a power tool. When you write about what you've
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  done in the day or your experience is, or even imagining
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  how you want to feel or be in your day, and that's what the
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  world of positive journals. All about, then you are creating
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  a terrific way and I'm actually a little conduit in the past to
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  be intentional with yourself so that you're set up for success.
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  And I think about this like visioning, right, we all know
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  this from the athletic World athletes Vision there, a race,
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  their game, their pregame race right when they're back.
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  Back on the floor, doing nothing other than visualizing, they see
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  themselves out there in the field, doing their race winning,
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  doing what they need to do going through those motions.
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  And that's exactly what the journaling provides for you,
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  right? You can design your future, I
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  think that's awesome. When you Journal, you can
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  literally drop in and be more present.
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  You can notice using your five senses and write that down,
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  right? So what do you experience about
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  your day? It actually allows you to be
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  more creative as well. And you cannot, you cannot only
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  have to describe what happened but you get to share.
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  What happened? Maybe you felt more excited and
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  you say that maybe you felt nervous, maybe maybe you were
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  hungry, right? It's just about how did it make
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  you feel and giving yourself that?
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  That platform for literally free form drawing or writing and see
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  what appears there might be Visions.
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  You have or like you let yourself doodle and you could
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  just come into that space, the really excellent ways to just
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  prime your your creativity as well as be present when you
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  Journal another reason it's a power tool.
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  Is it activates new neural circuitry.
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  I think that's really really awesome and you may know or
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  heard of the author. Henriette and clauser, she wrote
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  a book called, write it down, make it happen.
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  And what she says is that when we write it stimulates a bunch
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  of cells in the brain called the res, the rectangular activating
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  system. And what that does is it
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  actually signals to to our cerebral cortex in the brain to
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  wake up and pay attention. So literally, when you are
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  writing your telling your brain, hey, wake up.
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  Wake up, wake up, wake up. This is important and that's the
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  process of writing. That's why.
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  It's important when people think about well, should I write this
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  in a Google doc? Or should I put it on paper?
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  I always say put it on paper because you're telling your
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  brain, it's important. So when you have your to-do
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  list, you're going to pay more attention to it when it's
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  literally in a notebook versus on a Google doc because your
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  brain is signifying. Oh, this matters and then you're
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  going to retain it. You're going to remember it more
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  and that's the same for your Journal.
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  You're going to carve these new Pathways.
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  Isn't that cool? I love that.
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  When you Journal, another reason and this pathway is that it
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  increases by one. Well it didn't increase, but I
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  would say just accesses your innate gifts.
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  And I love this because again, I'm going to cite someone here.
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  I her name is Judith. Blackstone who wrote belonging
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  here a guide for the spiritually sensitive person.
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  She talks, she talks about the realization process, and this is
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  what journaling facilitates what she says is that this process
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  leverages an individual's innate physical and spiritual gifts.
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  She also says that when we use these gifts as entryways into
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  both, A human connection and with ourselves in our innermost
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  selves, our physical presence and engagement with others
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  deepens. Isn't that cool?
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  So, when you're actually journaling, you're paying it
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  forward in a way where you're going to be more present and
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  accessing, these gifts that are going to be more apparent for
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  others as you're with them, not just for you, but for others.
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  Oh my gosh. I'm getting excited.
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  I'm getting more excited. I just want to journal as I'm
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  saying all this. So what are you thinking?
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  Actually right now is your shit. As you're hearing me, this is
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  you kind of like it. 14. Well, what will this mean for
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  me? What if I do try this?
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  What if I want to do it now? I hope you're getting as excited
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  as I am. Okay, another awesome.
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  Power tool is a journaling, helps you develop more
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  self-compassion. Awesome.
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  I love that. Right.
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  So knowing that you're with yourself in this moment, any
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  given moment and you can still Journal a little bit on
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  autopilot, but the idea is like, when you're fully present for
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  it, instead of having that day to day to do list or something,
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  You can be here now. Oh boy, and be here.
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  Now, anyone know this, this phrase be here.
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  Now it was a book title. Anyone anyone book title from
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  the late Ram, Dass he wrote a book, titled be here now and it
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  was bad. It was back in 1971.
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  And I want to just read this to you because I find it very
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  inspiring for myself just be here.
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  Now, this is what does rights just be here?
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  Now, reflect on the thought that if you are truly here and now a
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  it is enough and be, you will have Optimum power and
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  understanding to do the best thing at the given moment.
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  Thus, when then meaning the future becomes.
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  Now, if you have learned this discipline, You will then be in
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  an ideal position to do the best thing.
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  So you need not spend your time worrying about then right?
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  Meaning the past. So that's from Ram Dass.
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  That's a quote. It's in pause the journal and
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  reading it to you right now on page 3, if you've got it handy
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  and self-compassion to me is a window into so much depth that
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  you can access where we can build and bring in more self
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  care for ourselves. Selves and things like that.
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  You can make more of your subconscious conscious and who
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  doesn't want to do that. So according to research, we
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  have 50 trillion cells in our body, OK, 50 trillion and your
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  unconscious mind is, uh, is actually meaning your
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  subconscious mind. Really whether you call it,
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  subconscious unconscious, it's 95%.
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  It's 95% of the time on meaning, you're only conscious five
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  percent of the time. So that's what we're working.
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  From the ground up, okay. So know that you're already
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  mostly subconscious. And this unconscious mind is a
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  million times more powerful than your conscious mind, which is
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  why it's so present and available in.
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  That's how we work in the routines, the patterns, the
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  things we don't even think about 95% of the time.
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  You're conscious Minds, prefrontal cortex alone,
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  processes 40 nerve, impulses per second.
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  Well, 90% of your unconscious brain processes. 40 million
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  nerves in pulses per second. Whoa.
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  So that's 40 nerve. Pulses on the frontal lobe
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  versus 40 million nerve, impulses per second.
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  It's basically, I don't even know, like 10 million times
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  faster, basically, and your unconscious brain.
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  This means obviously that were ruled by our subconscious
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  behaviors unless we do something about it.
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  Your journaling takes that into account, so that it takes
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  inventory. When you're writing in, what's
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  going on in your head, but surfaces insights, to your
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  subconscious. Spray and you otherwise wouldn't
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  have well like news flash. What amazing information is
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  that. So there you go.
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  Those are some amazing reasons why it's a power tool and
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  remember my friends you are Limitless.
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  You can use your Journal as a power tool at any time at any
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  day for you. You can dig deep and use
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  journaling as a way to access that, right?
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  And then I love this thought to know as and write as if your
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  dreams depended on it, right? As if your dreams depended on
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  it. So what?
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  If your transformation depended on you writing down?
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  What's going on for you now so that you can process it move in
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  a new place. Mmm.
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  So so good. Are you a journal or was this
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  helpful? I would love to know.
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  Leave me a message here. You can audio message me.
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  Just your thoughts or Journal about it, maybe Journal about
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  this episode, hey, what a great idea and have fun with
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  journaling. It really is a way to
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  intentionally right to create your dreams and that's what I
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  truly believe is that all of us can reach our dreams, but we're
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  blocking ourselves and that's why none of us are really living
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  our dreams. Probably probably have some
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  dreams that you would write down that aren't happening right now.
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  I know I do and it's because of my unconscious beliefs in the
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  blocks that I'm always working on.
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  So thanks everyone. Hope you have a great day and
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