Speaker 1: Stream thinking learning how to trust what is in your
present moment. To get there requires some practice. This is
what I do one sheet of paper every day, just
ten minutes, write about whatever is moving through your presence
of what is right now, no judgment though, no judgment.
Streamthinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,
and as an activator. Learning to trust what is in
your right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading
from January twenty first, twenty twenty three. Why do people
dread doing things that need to get done? Wait a second,
I've done my research. Research identifies dread as being a
sense of uncertainty, a nagging sense of doubt, sometimes leading
to panic attacks, getting sick to your stomach, even depression.
And yes, there is such a thing as dreadful procrastination,
usually caused or associated with very repetitive jobs or a
lack of feedback. The most important thing to remember here
is is that dread and procrastination are not laziness. They're
classified as mental health conditions. Learning to work with dread
is my hardcore mission. I dread a lot of physical things,
and when I'm late, I have to pay a monetary price.
Why was I late. I dreaded it. I chose the
fine over having to put myself through what needed to
get done. We all have something that we dread. But
what's the total cost in your personal life? Is it money, heartbreak,
family time, workplace opportunity? What is your dread? Can you
be honest enough with you about that dread? I have
a beautiful force here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. What
I love about this forest is that I believe inside
my soul it is stronger and more beautiful when it's natural.
But my human eye, the one that's trained by those
beautiful magazine covers, are going no, no, I've got to
get out into that forest and clean that forest floor up.
But I dread it because it's work. More importantly, I
know that when I start lifting up those heavy branches
at sixty years old, I'm gonna be feeling some pain.
I'm gonna twist something, and then I'm gonna pay for
it for several weeks or several months. It's part of
the dread. It's not that I don't like paying my bills.
I just don't like seeing my bank account and go
boo boo boo, boo boo boo boo boo. I dread it,
but I end up paying more because, yeah, I had
to pay the fine, the fine of being late. It's
not that I like being late, It's just I dread
the boo boo boom boom boom boom boom boom boom.
What about you? Do you dread falling asleep? There are
a lot of people that I share conversations with that
do not like to sleep at night. They would rather
stay awake because the nightmares are so bad. They don't
want to have to deal with waking up from something
that they completely had no control over. I spend a
lot of time researching dreams, but that doesn't make me
an expert. I am not. But I use meditation as
my dread identifier and releaser of pain. Is there such
a thing a releaser of pain? Getting rid of the
stress caused by dreams you can't control. But I too
dread going to sleep at night. I will watch that clock,
and when I hit a certain time, it's like, go
go now, go now, go now, Because the closer I
get to midnight, the more I can make it to
two o'clock before that first dream boom hits me. I
dread it. I don't think it's hate, but it's more
like uncomfortable, insecure, And remember what researchers said. You do
get sick to your stomach, you do get panic attacks,
you do become depressed, and remember that it is not
a sense of laziness, but rather it's classified as a
mental health condition. Seek help, get a professional to step
into your moments of dread and try to understand how
you can thin it out a bit. We all have dread.
It's part of our everyday world. Do you dread going
to social media? But you do it anyway and it's like,
oh God, why did I do that? Coca Cola and
PEPSI have these brand new products out constantly. I dread
going into a convenience store because I'm gonna go, oh,
I gotta taste that, and then I pay for it.
We have dread in every step that we take. But
can you get it under control? The answer is yes.
I'm a daily writer. I'm also a d frag writer.
That means I break it down. I ask the questions
and I question the answers. It is so important to
even stream thing saying hey, it was good that peep
taste pepsi. But let's break it down. What did it
do to the inside core of your body? You're gonna
get a stomach ache down well, I mean there was
some sugar. Break it down, Break it down, break it down.
Do some stream thinking, have an honest to God conversation
with yourself, and when you do, the dread kind of
lightens up a bit. But I think one of the
best tools that you can use are what I personally
have used. Okay, first of all, meditation is very difficult
because your mind won't shut off. It takes many, many
years to master the fine art of meditation to just
kind of check out a little bit. But what I
do to help me get into that moment where the
mind eases up on its judgment is I listen to
what I call head music. It's frequency music. You can
find it on YouTube. Find your frequency and step free
of your dread. I'm Eryl and that's stream thinking.