Lisa for Real

2.8 We are what we say

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Repeat after me –

I am worthy of good things.
Life brings me wealth and abundance.
My relationships give me joy.
My body is resilient and at ease.
My family is healthy and happy.
I feel fulfilled at the end of the day.

The words we say to ourselves and others have a strong impact on not only our moods but also our ability to work towards our goals. I have been listening to Denise Duffield’s Get Rich Lucky Bitch to learn techniques to clear money blocks, and it has been such a good reminder that our manifestations are dependent on our mindset and self-talk. Our self-talk is so powerful!

This weekend, lets think positive thoughts about ourselves, our circumstances and our week or year ahead. Dare to release negative thought patterns that feel safe and familiar. Replace them with positive thoughts like the ones above.

You deserve happiness, health, joy, fulfillment, abundance, wealth and all the good things.

2.7 Is it water or melted ice?

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On the walk to the bus stop yesterday morning, my daughter skimmed the frost off of a piece of grass and said, “Hey Mom, it’s snow.” And then as it melted in her hands, she quickly said, “No, it’s water.”

I asked her, “Why do we call it water? Why don’t we call it melted ice or melted snow instead? Imagine a different planet where water is really called ‘melted ice.'”

And I proceeded to joke with her that instead of water coming out of the faucet, maybe on that planet, chunks of ice came out instead, and then, it had to be melted to become water. I also had a chuckle when I referred to the contents of her thermos as melted ice and she told me to stop.

Calling water “melted snow” is not false but it is not normal, common or instinctive because of our surroundings.

Without realizing it, I think I was trying to teach my daughter the impact of what norms have on how we view and name things, and I was giving her an example of reframing something, stretching our brains to look something from a different angle.

That conversation was a fun reminder that what is normal for me is not normal for you, and it’s important that we recognize normal is relative.

2.6 A spaghetti kind of new year

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Forget resolutions and goal setting. Maybe the best new year approach is akin to throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks. It’s quite the opposite of an intentional new year but maybe being intentional is too much pressure, too boring, too rigid, too unaligned!

Maybe it is more fun or feels more right to try new things and follow intuition in figuring out what feels good and go with what sticks.

As my word for the year is working its way to me, I am throwing all sorts of spaghetti.

Here are the things I have started or restarted doing, not necessarily everyday, in the first 5 days of 2022 –

  • taken out the yoga mat and stretched/done yoga throughout the day
  • practiced 20 minutes of breathwork via a YouTube video
  • drank loose leaf brewed green tea
  • listened to a money course on Insight Timer
  • meditated on Insight Timer
  • did an intergenerational healing
  • set time limits on several apps on my phones
  • gone to bed at 1AM (as opposed to my 2021 norm of 3AM)
  • got my house dowsed/cleared of energy interferences
  • worked on money blocks
  • listened to podcasts and ebooks

And maybe next month will bring a new bunch of spaghetti at the wall because nothing stuck. I’m not saying we should be flinging spaghetti around everywhere but during times when we may not feel called to be intentional, throwing spaghetti may be just what we need.

2.5 Bending spoons and time

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I find myself saying to my kids way too often that I don’t have time for this and that. No time to play. No time to look at what they are doing. No time to make the dinner they want.

Time is a precious entity. What I find really fascinating about time is that we all have 24 hours a day, and it passes us by whether we want to or not.

While the earth’s orbit around the sun and its rotation on its axis are fixed, so much of our concept of time is human-made. I saw a Trevor Noah clip where he talks about how companies use the fact that there are only two weekend days as an excuse for not providing longer weekends and days off to their employee when “weekends” are entirely humanmade!

Daylight savings time is the ultimate example of how humans manipulate time. It shows that it is entirely conceptual and we can basically change it to whatever we want it to be! Instead of listening to our bodies or to nature, we use clocks. Instead of saying, “The sun is rising later today so I’ll sleep in a little more,” we override our natural tendencies, wake up to a blaring alarm and work until after sunset.

Time is a concept I want to play around with this year. Some of it is simply prioritizing important things and fitting those into my day like meditating for stretches of time that I have considered to be “long” (e.g., 20 minute meditations) and setting a time limit for certain apps on my phone.

The other bit of time I am playing around with is much more on a magical and maybe even quantum level. I am anticipating more intergenerational and inner child healing. And maybe this is a bit too unrealistic or “out there” but I kinda want to “Neo” time – I want to be able to see the matrix of time and bend it at my will – “There is no time.”

Whether or not I end up bending time, I know it will be a worthwhile endeavor to reframe time in a way that’s beneficial to me.

2.4 Thoughts about waiting

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What is waiting?

There are loads of fun statistics out there of how long we spend during our lives waiting on lines or waiting for packages or waiting for friends who are late.

Is waiting an action or is it more of a state of being? If we are doing other things while we wait, are we still waiting? Does it make a difference if we are doing something productive (like cleaning) vs. unproductive (like social media) while we wait?

There appear to be different flavors of waiting. Doing something productive while waiting seems to shift us into a state of doing while doing something unproductive keeps us in a state of being. Sometimes it’s okay to just waiting and seemingly waste time; however, at some point, we’ve got to put down the phone find something else to do.