Speaker 1: You have more power in the first moments of waking
Speaker 1: than you have been taught to believe. That is where
Speaker 1: I want to begin with you, not with pressure, not
Speaker 1: with one more list of things you must do to
Speaker 1: become a better person. With power, quiet power. The first
Speaker 1: minutes after waking are very tender. The mind is soft,
Speaker 1: then impressionable, listening. The body has not yet fully armored
Speaker 1: itself for the day. That is why those first moments
Speaker 1: matter so much. Some mornings, my mind wanted to order
Speaker 1: fear for breakfast. Perhaps you know that feeling too. Before
Speaker 1: my feet were even fully awake, the mind had already
Speaker 1: begun offering me yesterday's worries, tomorrow's uncertainties, old disappointments, unfinished conversations,
Speaker 1: reasons to brace. You may know that menu most people do.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you something very simply, and I
Speaker 1: want you to really feel the question instead of rushing
Speaker 1: to answer it. What do you want to order for
Speaker 1: your life this morning? Peace or worry? Stay where you
Speaker 1: are for a moment. Do not get out of bed
Speaker 1: too quickly. Take one deeper breath, Let the shoulders fall,
Speaker 1: let the jaw soften, Let the body hear that nothing
Speaker 1: is chasing it just yet. Morning is a set point.
Speaker 1: You do not have to solve your whole life in
Speaker 1: these first moments. You do not have to understand everything.
Speaker 1: You do not need a breakthrough before breakfast. You only
Speaker 1: need one conscious choice, one kinder direction, one new tone.
Speaker 1: I don't fight my mind. I soften and listen again.
Speaker 1: I am safe to choose a better thought. That is
Speaker 1: enough to begin now. One of the most important things
Speaker 1: I can tell you is this healing negative thinking does
Speaker 1: not mean suppressing it. It does not mean smiling on
Speaker 1: top of pain. It does not mean pasting a bright
Speaker 1: sentence over a frightened heart and calling that healing. That
Speaker 1: only creates more conflict inside. A great Many people have
Speaker 1: been taught a harsh version of positivity. They think if
Speaker 1: they feel fear, sadness, resentment, doubt, or heaviness, then they
Speaker 1: are doing something wrong spiritually, emotionally, or mentally. So they
Speaker 1: try to force themselves into good thoughts while something inside
Speaker 1: is still hurting my darling. That does not heal the mind.
Speaker 1: It divides it, and a divided mind becomes more tense,
Speaker 1: not less. A negative thought is not a moral fail.
Speaker 1: It is often a signal. Sometimes it is the voice
Speaker 1: of a hurt part of you trying to prevent more pain.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it is an old protective habit. Sometimes it is
Speaker 1: fear dressed up as wisdom. Sometimes it is simply a tired,
Speaker 1: nervous system trying to keep you small because small once
Speaker 1: felt safer it. That does not make it true, but
Speaker 1: it does mean it deserves understanding before redirection. So instead
Speaker 1: of attacking the thought, get curious, ask what is this
Speaker 1: thought trying to protect me from? Is it protecting you
Speaker 1: from rejection, disappointment, shame, failure, exposure, uncertainty? There is often
Speaker 1: a frightened little intelligence inside even the harshest thought. It
Speaker 1: is trying, in its own, clumsy, old way, to keep
Speaker 1: you from being hurt again. Negative thinking is often a
Speaker 1: wounded protector, not an enemy. That is why I want
Speaker 1: you to speak to the thought with compassion before you
Speaker 1: choose something new, not because you want to keep the thought,
Speaker 1: because you want to stop making war with your own
Speaker 1: inner life. Try saying this very gently, thank you for
Speaker 1: trying to protect me, but I am safe now to
Speaker 1: choose a new direction. Feel that there is no violence
Speaker 1: in it, no inner shouting, no humiliation, just acknowledgment, gratitude,
Speaker 1: and redirection that changes everything. The old thought no longer
Speaker 1: has to scream to be heard because you have heard it,
Speaker 1: and once it has been heard, it often softens enough
Speaker 1: for you to choose again. This is such a beautiful
Speaker 1: little practice. Name it, thank it. Choose again. This is fear.
Speaker 1: Thank you for trying to protect me. I choose a
Speaker 1: gentler thought. Now. That is a very sequence. It teaches
Speaker 1: the nervous system that you are not helpless. It teaches
Speaker 1: the frightened parts of you that they do not have
Speaker 1: to run the whole morning. It teaches your heart that
Speaker 1: you can stay kind and still be clear. You do
Speaker 1: not have to defeat a thought in order to become
Speaker 1: free of it. You only need a new relationship with it.
Speaker 1: That is where the stuck energy begins to move. Judgment freezes,
Speaker 1: compassion releases, and once you stop wrestling with the thought,
Speaker 1: something very important becomes possible. You can return to life itself,
Speaker 1: not your story about life, not your theory about healing life,
Speaker 1: the livingness in you right now. This is one of
Speaker 1: the most powerful ways I know to loosen the spell
Speaker 1: of negative thinking. You stop trying to solve the thought
Speaker 1: for a moment, and you return to something that it
Speaker 1: is already happening underneath it, your breath, your heartbeat, the
Speaker 1: sensation in your hands, the simple fact that you are here,
Speaker 1: still here, alive. A great many people spend so much
Speaker 1: time trying to manage their thoughts that they forget they
Speaker 1: are more than thought. They forget that beneath the mind's
Speaker 1: noise there is breath, moving, blood, moving, sensation, moving, awareness moving.
Speaker 1: You are not the thought. You are the aliveness that
Speaker 1: notices the thought. That is such a different way to
Speaker 1: wake up. It means the mind no longer gets to
Speaker 1: be the whole room. It becomes one sound in the room,
Speaker 1: one passing thing, one radio station, and you, my darling,
Speaker 1: are the one listening, not the noise itself. So let
Speaker 1: me give you this little three minute a liveness anchor,
Speaker 1: because it is very simple and very Put your hand
Speaker 1: on your chest and feel for the rhythm there, the
Speaker 1: subtle pulse of being here. Stay for thirty seconds. If
Speaker 1: you can, no fixing, no analyzing, just feeling. Then for
Speaker 1: one minute, breathe slowly and listen to the sounds in
Speaker 1: the room, the hum of air, a distant noise, the
Speaker 1: quiet itself. Let those sounds bring you out of the
Speaker 1: old mental tunnel and back into the wider living world. Then,
Speaker 1: for another minute, bring your attention to your hands, the palms,
Speaker 1: the fingertips. The tiny sensations there, tingling, warmth, pressure, absence
Speaker 1: of sensation. It does not matter. You are simply noticing
Speaker 1: that life is present in you in more ways than thought.
Speaker 1: Then close with this simple truth. I am here. I
Speaker 1: am alive. Again, I am here. I am alive. One
Speaker 1: more time slower now, I am here, I am alive.
Speaker 1: Do you feel the difference. The thought may still be there,
Speaker 1: a little fine, but it has lost its throne. The
Speaker 1: mind is no longer the whole sky. It is only
Speaker 1: one cloud passing through something much larger. A liveness breaks
Speaker 1: the spell. It really does, because the old thought wants
Speaker 1: you locked inside it. The breath does not, the heartbeat
Speaker 1: does not, the sensation in your hands does not. Life
Speaker 1: itself is always inviting you back to something wider than fear.
Speaker 1: So this morning, if negative thoughts show up, do not panic.
Speaker 1: Do not make their presence into proof that healing is
Speaker 1: far away. Do not attack yourself for being human. Instead,
Speaker 1: remember your power. You can stay in bed one moment longer.
Speaker 1: You can breathe, You can soften You can ask what
Speaker 1: the thought is trying to protect. You can thank it
Speaker 1: without obeying it. You can come back to your breath,
Speaker 1: your body, your simple living presence. You can say I
Speaker 1: don't fight my mind. I soften and listen. You can
Speaker 1: say I am safe. To choose a better thought. You
Speaker 1: can say this is fear, thank you for trying to
Speaker 1: protect me. I choose a gentler thought. Now you can
Speaker 1: put your hand on your chest and remember, I am here,
Speaker 1: I am alive. That is healing, not flashy, not forceful, real.
Speaker 1: You are not learning how to become a different person overnight.
Speaker 1: You are learning how to wake up without abandoning yourself,
Speaker 1: and that changes everything. I want to share something very
Speaker 1: simple with you, something I had to learn the long way,
Speaker 1: the very human way. There were mornings when I woke
Speaker 1: up feeling all right, and then within ten minutes I
Speaker 1: no longer felt like myself at all. I had not
Speaker 1: had a tragedy, nothing terrible had happened. I had simply
Speaker 1: let the wrong things into my mind too early. A conversation,
Speaker 1: a headline, a voice full of fear, a piece of gossip,
Speaker 1: some comparison, some pressure, some old emotional weather from someone else,
Speaker 1: and suddenly I was carrying feelings that did not even
Speaker 1: begin with me. You may know that feeling. You wake
Speaker 1: up soft, open, impressionable, and then the world comes rushing
Speaker 1: in with its noise, and before you know it, you
Speaker 1: are eating anxiety for breakfast and calling it just life.
Speaker 1: But it is not just life, my dear. Very often
Speaker 1: it is diet, mental die, emotional diet, spiritual diet. You become,
Speaker 1: in part what you repeatedly consume. If you feed your
Speaker 1: mind criticism, comparison, urgency, and fear, you will feel crowded inside.
Speaker 1: If you feed it gentleness, truth, beauty, perspective, and hope,
Speaker 1: you will breathe differently. That does not mean you become foolish.
Speaker 1: It means you become nourished. There is a great difference
Speaker 1: between being informed and being internally invaded. And many people
Speaker 1: are not actually exhausted by life first. They are exhausted
Speaker 1: by what they have been swallowing all day long without
Speaker 1: realizing it. So before we go any further, I want
Speaker 1: to ask you something, honestly, are you feeding your mind
Speaker 1: peace or are you feeding it comparison. That one question
Speaker 1: can change a whole morning. Your mind has a jestive
Speaker 1: system just as surely as your body does. It takes
Speaker 1: in images, voices, tones, conversations, expectations, and emotional atmospheres, and
Speaker 1: then it has to do something with them. Some things nourish,
Speaker 1: some things inflame. Some things crowd the inner room so
Speaker 1: completely that your own wisdom can hardly get a word in.
Speaker 1: And then people say, why am I so negative? What
Speaker 1: is wrong with me? Why do I feel so anxious?
Speaker 1: For no reason? Sometimes there is a reason. Sometimes the
Speaker 1: negative thinking is not your essential self at all. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it is simply what you have been eating. Mentally, what
Speaker 1: you consume becomes part of the emotional climate you live in.
Speaker 1: If the first thing you do each morning is scroll
Speaker 1: through bad news, compare your life to polish strangers, absorb urgency, outrage,
Speaker 1: and noise, then the nervous system begins the day in defense.
Speaker 1: If you spend hours listening to people complain, criticize, dramatize,
Speaker 1: and catastrophize, your heart will begin to feel like it
Speaker 1: lives in a storm, even when the sky is clear.
Speaker 1: That does not make you weak, It makes you permeable.
Speaker 1: Human beings are permeable. We absorb, we echo, We borrow
Speaker 1: tone from what surrounds us. So let us. Stop calling
Speaker 1: every heavy feeling me. Some of it is not you.
Speaker 1: Some of it is residue, some of it is atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Some of it is content. Some of it is simply
Speaker 1: something you have swallowed too many times. Negative thinking is
Speaker 1: not always your truth. Sometimes it is just your intake.
Speaker 1: That is such a relief when you understand it, because
Speaker 1: then you stop attacking yourself and begin protecting yourself instead.
Speaker 1: Now I want to make this very practice, because love
Speaker 1: must become practical or it remains only a lovely idea.
Speaker 1: Look at what you are allowing into your mind each day,
Speaker 1: not some day today, which three sources leave you feeling smaller, tighter,
Speaker 1: more compare and despair, more rushed, more, not enough? Unfollow them? Really,
Speaker 1: not because you are fragile, Because you are responsible. Protecting
Speaker 1: your mind is a form of self respect. If there
Speaker 1: are voices you keep listening to that always leave you
Speaker 1: in self doubt, step back. If there are accounts, channels, conversations,
Speaker 1: or little digital habits that send your heart into comparison
Speaker 1: or your body into alarm, loosen your relationship with them.
Speaker 1: You do not have to make a dramatic speech about it.
Speaker 1: You do not need to explain it to anyone you
Speaker 1: simply stop feeding yourself poison and then asking why you
Speaker 1: feel unwell. Reduce the doom scrolling, especially in the morning,
Speaker 1: when the mind is still so tender and impressionable. Morning
Speaker 1: is not the time to hand your consciousness over to panic.
Speaker 1: Morning is the time to claim your own atmosphere. Replace
Speaker 1: some of that input with something that actually lifts you.
Speaker 1: A page from a kind book, a voice that steadies
Speaker 1: rather than agitates, a short piece of music that softens
Speaker 1: the chest, A podcast or video that reminds you of
Speaker 1: what is possible, what is true? What is healing not
Speaker 1: something loud and sugary, something clean, something nourishing, something that
Speaker 1: leaves you feeling more like yourself, not less. A disciplined
Speaker 1: mind diet is an act of self love. It says,
Speaker 1: I care what enters me, I care what grows inside me.
Speaker 1: I care what kind of inner world I am building.
Speaker 1: And if you begin there gently, faithfully, you will notice
Speaker 1: that some thoughts you called mine simply stop visiting is
Speaker 1: often because you are no longer serving them. Breakfast, now,
Speaker 1: let me take you somewhere softer, because once you begin
Speaker 1: protecting the mind, you also begin realizing something very beautiful.
Speaker 1: You do not have to wait until life is fully
Speaker 1: resolved before you let yourself feel better. People postpone joy
Speaker 1: in such painful ways. They say, when this is over,
Speaker 1: I'll relax when that comes through. I'll breathe when I'm
Speaker 1: finally loved, chosen, healed, successful, secure, approved of. Then I'll
Speaker 1: let myself feel good and life passes while they stand
Speaker 1: at the edge of their own joy asking for receipts.
Speaker 1: My dear, you do not have to wait until the
Speaker 1: flower is fully open to enjoy the fragrance. A little
Speaker 1: joy now can heal a great deal of fear. That
Speaker 1: is what I mean by borrowing emotion wisely. You do
Speaker 1: not borrow fake outcomes. You borrow a quality of feeling
Speaker 1: that your body can begin to live in now. A
Speaker 1: little ease, a little gladness, a little tenderness, a little relief,
Speaker 1: a little brightness in the chest, a little openness in
Speaker 1: the hands. You do not need the whole miracle before
Speaker 1: you allow one sip of peace. You can experience a
Speaker 1: touch of the joy now, and that touch changes your chemistry,
Speaker 1: It changes your breathing, It changes the message the nervous
Speaker 1: system receives. Fear hates joy because joy interrupts its spell.
Speaker 1: Fear wants all of your attention. Joy says no, there
Speaker 1: is more happening here than your worry admits. Even a
Speaker 1: small moment of pleasure can do this. The warmth of sunlight,
Speaker 1: the smell of something lovely, the memory of laughter, the
Speaker 1: sight of a flower, the sound of music, the feeling
Speaker 1: of water on your skin, a deep breath that reaches
Speaker 1: lower than yesterday's. Small joy is not a distraction from healing.
Speaker 1: Small joy is part of healing. It reminds the body
Speaker 1: that life is not only danger, only duty, only effort,
Speaker 1: only repair. And if joy feels too far away in
Speaker 1: the moment, then borrow from memory. I love this practice
Speaker 1: because it is so kind and so intelligent. Your brain
Speaker 1: remembers feelings, it remembers emotional states, It remembers embodied confidence,
Speaker 1: even when the mind temporarily forgets. So think of a
Speaker 1: time when you felt strong or clear, or brave or capable,
Speaker 1: were simply a little more like yourself. It does not
Speaker 1: have to be grand. Maybe you handled a conversation well.
Speaker 1: Maybe you finish something difficult. Maybe you walked into a
Speaker 1: room with more ease than usual. Maybe you laughed freely.
Speaker 1: Maybe you recovered from something hard. Maybe you once felt
Speaker 1: light in your body, steady in your voice, clear in
Speaker 1: your eyes. Find one moment, one real moment. Then do
Speaker 1: not only think about it. Feel where it lived in you.
Speaker 1: Was it in the chest, the belly, the throat, the spine,
Speaker 1: the hands. Pull that memory into the body. Now place
Speaker 1: it in the chest, Let it settle in the belly,
Speaker 1: Let it spread through the shoulders. You have been strong before,
Speaker 1: and your body remembers. That is a tremendous comfort. It
Speaker 1: means you are not inventing confidence from nothing. You are
Speaker 1: recontacting something you have already lived. When people are frightened,
Speaker 1: they act as if the present emotion is the whole
Speaker 1: truth of who they are. But it is not. There
Speaker 1: are other versions of you already in your history. There
Speaker 1: is the you who handled the thing, the you who
Speaker 1: got up again, the you who found the words, the
Speaker 1: you who made the call, the you who survived and
Speaker 1: then smiled. Borrow that feeling, not the whole event, not
Speaker 1: the outer result. The feeling. Borrow the steadiness, Borrow the courage,
Speaker 1: Borrow the warmth, Borrow the quiet self respect. Borrow the feeling.
Speaker 1: Change the day that one sentence can carry you so far,
Speaker 1: and if the past feels too tangled or too distant,
Speaker 1: then borrow from the future. Not in some strained pretend way,
Speaker 1: in a loving, imaginative way. Picture yourself three months from now.
Speaker 1: Not perfect, not glowing with impossible perfection, just steadier, clearer,
Speaker 1: a little kinder to yourself, a little less reactive, a
Speaker 1: little more rooted. Perhaps that future self sleeps a little better,
Speaker 1: speaks a little more softly, chooses a little more wisely,
Speaker 1: holds boundaries with less apology, breathes deeper, trusts life more. Now, ask,
Speaker 1: very simply, what would that version of me say to
Speaker 1: me this morning? Sit with it. Listen. Perhaps the future
Speaker 1: self says, slow down, nothing is chasing you. Perhaps it says,
Speaker 1: do not answer from fear. Perhaps it says this matters
Speaker 1: less than you think. Perhaps it says eat first, then decide.
Speaker 1: Perhaps it says you already know. Perhaps it says be kinder.
Speaker 1: That is the way through. This is such a beautiful
Speaker 1: way to use imagination, because you are not borrowing fake success.
Speaker 1: You are borrowing orientation. You are borrowing tone. You are
Speaker 1: borrowing the feeling state that allows better choices to happen.
Speaker 1: You do not borrow the result. You borrow the emotional posture,
Speaker 1: and when you do that, something shifts. The day no
Speaker 1: longer begins with only the frightened present self in charge.
Speaker 1: It begins with support, inner support, temporal support, the you
Speaker 1: who remembers, the you who is becoming, the you who
Speaker 1: already knows more peace than today's fear can see. So now,
Speaker 1: let us gather all of this. Gently, guard what enters
Speaker 1: your mind, because what enters re heatedly begins speaking in
Speaker 1: your voice. Let yourself feel a little joy before everything
Speaker 1: is solved, because joy loosens fears. Hold. Borrow strength from
Speaker 1: your past when you need to remember that you are
Speaker 1: not new to courage. Borrow steadiness from your future when
Speaker 1: you need a wiser tone for the morning. None of
Speaker 1: this is fake. None of this is escapism. It is
Speaker 1: emotional intelligence. It is loving self direction. It is how
Speaker 1: a person stops being hypnotized by one temporary state and
Speaker 1: begins living from a deeper, wider self. You do not
Speaker 1: need to fight your mind so much, my darling. You
Speaker 1: need to feed it better, protect it better, and give
Speaker 1: it better feelings to practice. What you feed grows, what
Speaker 1: you rehearse deepens, what you protect strengthens. So ask yourself
Speaker 1: to day and ask it kindly, what am I feeding
Speaker 1: my mind? What small joy can I allow? Now? What
Speaker 1: past strength can I remember? What future wisdom can I borrow?
Speaker 1: Then let those answers become your medicine. Let them become
Speaker 1: the atmosphere of the day. Let them become the gentle
Speaker 1: turning of your life towards something cleaner, softer, steadier, and
Speaker 1: much more true. I never want healing to feel like
Speaker 1: one more heavy thing you must do correctly before you
Speaker 1: are allowed to feel better. A gentle morning matters more
Speaker 1: than a perfect one. You do not need a flawless start.
Speaker 1: You do not need to wake up radiant, wise centered,
Speaker 1: and completely free of every old pattern. You need a
Speaker 1: kind sequence, a little rhythm, a soft way back to yourself.
Speaker 1: That is all. You do not need a perfect morning.
Speaker 1: You need a gentle way home. And if you have
Speaker 1: seven men minutes, just seven, you can begin changing the
Speaker 1: emotional direction of your whole day, not by force, not
Speaker 1: by pretending, by returning step by step to your own
Speaker 1: inner steadiness. Start with one minute of breath and release.
Speaker 1: Let the jaws soften, let the shoulders fall, let the
Speaker 1: face stop bracing one's slow breath in one longer breath out.
Speaker 1: You are not trying to become enlightened in sixty seconds.
Speaker 1: You are letting the body know that the day does
Speaker 1: not begin an attack. Then take one minute for the
Speaker 1: little practice we used before. Name. Thank choose this is fear.
Speaker 1: Thank you for trying to protect me. I choose a
Speaker 1: gentler thought. Now. That is such a kind little bridge,
Speaker 1: because it changes your relationship to the thought before the
Speaker 1: old struggle begins. Then spend three three minutes in your
Speaker 1: aliveness anchor, hand on the chest, Feel the rhythm there,
Speaker 1: Listen to the room, notice your palms, your fingertips, the
Speaker 1: simple living fact of being here. I am here, I
Speaker 1: am alive. That alone can break so much of the
Speaker 1: morning spell. After that, take one minute to borrow a
Speaker 1: confident memory, not a fantasy, a real memory, a moment
Speaker 1: in which you were steadier, braver, lighter, more capable than
Speaker 1: Fear wants you to remember, feel where that lived in
Speaker 1: your body, and invite that feeling back in. Then, for
Speaker 1: the last minute, choose one mind diet rule for the day.
Speaker 1: Just one. No doom scrolling before breakfast, no comparison accounts today,
Speaker 1: no anxious conversations before you have grounded yourself. One little protection,
Speaker 1: one little act of self respect. That is enough. A
Speaker 1: gentle sequence teaches the mind that healing can be lived,
Speaker 1: not chaste, you see, my darling. The reason this works
Speaker 1: is not because the routine is magical. It works because
Speaker 1: it is relational. It treats the mind, the body, the
Speaker 1: nervous system, the heart as though they belong to some
Speaker 1: one worth caring for. So many people begin the day
Speaker 1: as if they are already late to themselves. They wake up,
Speaker 1: grab the phone, tighten the jaw, swallow the fear, and
Speaker 1: start negotiating with pressure before their spirit has even properly arrived.
Speaker 1: Then they ask why the day feels so hard to
Speaker 1: live in. Of course it does. They never came home
Speaker 1: to themselves first. But when you give yourself this seven
Speaker 1: minute sequence, you do something profoundly healing. You say, before
Speaker 1: I meet the world, I will meet myself. You say,
Speaker 1: before I hand my consciousness to noise, I will let
Speaker 1: my body feel safe. You say, before I believe every
Speaker 1: old thought, I will remember that I am more than thought.
Speaker 1: That is not a small thing. That is the beginning
Speaker 1: of self leadership. It is the end of starting each
Speaker 1: morning by abandoning yourself. You are not fixing your mind.
Speaker 1: You are befriending it. Not harshness, not war, not how
Speaker 1: do I finally get rid of this? But how do
Speaker 1: I become a kinder place for myself to live? And
Speaker 1: the more you practice that, the more the mind softens,
Speaker 1: the more the body trusts you, and the more the
Speaker 1: old negative patterns stop feeling like the only truth available.
Speaker 1: I also want to tell you something very important, because
Speaker 1: this is where so many people become discouraged unnecessarily. You
Speaker 1: are not wrong for having negative thoughts. You are not
Speaker 1: failing because fear still visits. You are not broken because
Speaker 1: some mornings the mind wants to rehearse the old script
Speaker 1: before your feet even touch the floor. My dear, that
Speaker 1: is simply what a conditioned mind does until it is
Speaker 1: lovingly trained. Otherwise, you are not wrong for having negative thoughts.
Speaker 1: You are learning a new way to live inside your mind.
Speaker 1: I want you to hear that the way you would
Speaker 1: hear a blessing, learning, not failing, learning, rewiring, returning, becoming.
Speaker 1: The old thought may still knock, fine, now you know
Speaker 1: how to meet it. The old fear may still rise. Fine,
Speaker 1: now you know how to soften instead of fight the
Speaker 1: old comparison. May still whisper fine. Know how to protect
Speaker 1: your intake. This is not about never having another difficult thought.
Speaker 1: It is about no longer letting difficult thoughts decide the
Speaker 1: emotional climate of your whole day. It is about taking
Speaker 1: the wheel back again and again with tenderness instead of force.
Speaker 1: You are not stuck. You are practicing. And practice is
Speaker 1: how lives change, not in one grand emotional event, but
Speaker 1: in the small returning, in the repeated turning toward breath,
Speaker 1: toward a liveness, toward a better thought, toward a more
Speaker 1: loving inner tone. That is how the soul learns safety.
Speaker 1: That is how the body learns trust. That is how
Speaker 1: the future begins feeling different before it has fully arrived.
Speaker 1: So let me bless you very softly as we close this.
Speaker 1: May your mornings become kinder places to wake up inside.
Speaker 1: May your body learn that it does not need to
Speaker 1: begin in alarm. May your mind learn that it is
Speaker 1: not a prison, only a room you are learning how
Speaker 1: to tend. May the negative thoughts lose their old power
Speaker 1: to frighten you, not because they disappear overnight, but because
Speaker 1: you no longer mistake them for your identity. May you
Speaker 1: remember again and again, that you can pause, breathe, soften,
Speaker 1: and choose again. May you become very patient with yourself
Speaker 1: in this learning, very warm, very loyal, because the heart
Speaker 1: opens in warmth, not in pressure. And if one day
Speaker 1: feels heavier than another, all right, begin there. If one
Speaker 1: morning you do not do the whole sequence, all right,
Speaker 1: begin where you can one breath, one hand on the heart,
Speaker 1: one sentence, one gentler choice. That is enough, more than enough.
Speaker 1: You are not trapped in your mind. You are learning
Speaker 1: your way back to yourself. Stay with that, Let it
Speaker 1: settle into the body, Let it become something the nervous
Speaker 1: system can trust. And now say this very slowly, with pauses,
Speaker 1: as though you are tucking your own heart into safety.
Speaker 1: I am safe to choose a better thought. Again. I
Speaker 1: am safe to choose a better thought one more time,
Speaker 1: even more softly. Now I am safe to choose a
Speaker 1: better thought. You are not wrong, You are learning, You
Speaker 1: are not stuck. You are returning. And so it is