Finding Joy in the Hard Suzanne Andora Barron

So today I share with you a guided Jin Shin Jyutsu meditation that I taught live via zoom on Monday. (All are always welcome to join live. You can get the log-in details in my Sunday newsletter). You can sign up for that via my website: www.suzanneabarron.com

This meditation is all about embracing the magic of today and tapping into your strength, your power, your creativity and your right to be happy. 

This episode is a little longer than my previous episodes of late because it's a guided meditation. 

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Do you ever find yourself saying, I'll do it tomorrow?  Tomorrow I'll  be ready. But guess what?  That which you can create today  with that energy, that outlook, that way of being might not be available tomorrow.

Maybe tomorrow you'll be even more tired or maybe you'll be pulled in a different direction.  

As Elizabeth Gilbert writes about the same thing in her book, big magic, the spark of genius that you feel right now needs to be acted on right now, or it might pass you by. 

What if that dream you have right now won't be as crisp when you're finally ready to act on it.  Think back to something you wanted to do even five years ago. Do you still have the same intimate details of how you were going to approach it? 

The person you are today likely can't conjure up those same experiences.  

My Jin Shin Jyutsu healing tip for you today is to  hold each of your fingers  for three breaths each and each palm for three breaths each. This will raise your vibration. It will calm that chatter about how you're not ready and you're not able and now's not a good time. You'll stop the low level ruminating thoughts. 

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Your gifts need to be realized.  You have  a spark that the world desperately needs. 

Until tomorrow, be well.   
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Once we become impatient, it can stay with us for hours after. It impacts our perspective, how we look at things, how we treat others. 

But, we get to choose how we respond. Do we want to make whatever happened this huge deal? Because that's what we do when we get impatient.  We make such a big deal, so much bigger than it is. so much bigger than it needs to be.  But how do we shift and not allow it take hold of us? 

Use your breath. Focus on your breath. Inhaling and exhaling helps to move that block of energy that impatience creates. It helps to dissipate the annoyance and keep you in a level space. 

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Until tomorrow. Be well. 



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What is it that you really want to do?  Have you ever thought about it?  Or are you simply going through the motions,  checking off boxes on that to do list, errands that you need to run, work that you need to complete?  

Have you taken time  each day  or at least once a week  to dream?  To think about possibilities and opportunities, and even if they feel outlandish,  go with it.

See what you can come up with.  

You can tap into so much of what  you truly want  when you take  time for yourself.

It can be so simple.  You can go for a walk in nature. And if nature's far from you, you can simply go for a walk around the block.  You can take a bath.  You can lie in bed 10 minutes longer when you first get up in the morning.  

It's important to take time to dream,  to look beyond our responsibilities and see what it is that lights us up.  If you're feeling stuck,  set your timer for four minutes  and visualize  a way that you want to feel.  So,  just feel. the sensation of being happy or the sensation of being excited.  You can tap into a time that you were happy or that you were excited to get that energy flowing  because emotions are simply energy in motion. 

And sit in that energy, sit in that excitement, breathing in,  Inhaling in and exhaling out. Simply doing this four minute practice., even if you don't know where you're headed or where you want to be headed to,  will raise your vibration.  Think of it like a radio. Sometimes we'll search for something on the radio and  just getting static.

And a lot of times it feels like static in our life. But when we find the right channel, everything is clear.  Taking the time to raise your vibration, by focusing on a happy memory or something in the future that might light you up, sitting in that emotion for only four minutes  can shift your entire day. 

And once you become more comfortable with thinking about something you might want to be, do, or have, then you focus only on the end result and how it makes you feel, not the how to get there.  That also raises your vibration. And once your vibration is raised,  then your vision is expanded beyond what you can see in front of you. 
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Welcome back to Finding Joy in the Hard. I'm your host, Suzanne Andorra Barron, and my thought for you today is you get to have your own ideas, your own thoughts, your own beliefs, your own way of being.  

What do I mean by this?  We'll have a thought, and we'll say it out loud, and someone might seek to correct us.

They'll say, no, no, no, no, that's not how it is. This is how it is. This is the way that you need to think.  And really what that is, is they're inserting their own thoughts, their own beliefs.  And sometimes in our need to be right,  we seek to cancel out others ways of thinking and believing. 

And that's really the ego.  But just because someone might have. a better way of presenting a thought or a better argument.  That doesn't mean that our thoughts and our way of believing have less value.  We get to have our own thoughts.  They get to be ours  and  no one gets to change them.  No one gets to tell us they're wrong.

Of course,  People will try, and we've done the same thing. We don't even realize we're doing it. Someone will have a thought, we'll feel triggered for whatever reason, and we'll try to convince them of our way of thinking. Or they'll try to convince us to their way of thinking.  But we don't have to take that on. 

 Now, what would be really wonderful is if we could listen to what another person has to say, they could listen to what we have to say,  and we could learn from one another,  but not need to change how we think unless we want to change how we think.    

My healing tip for you today comes from Jin Shin Jyutsu. Hold the palm side of your ring finger and your pinky with the thumb and place the other fingers around the back  of the hand. This helps boost confidence and  helps to let go of trying, trying to be something different than you are. 
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Life moves so quickly that we often overlook the fact that the dream we've been waiting for, praying about and even planning is here. Only we've barely acknowledged it as we're onto the next wish, dream or desire. 

Too often we get lost in our thoughts (future desires or old stories) that we fail to celebrate that we've arrived to where we only wished we might be headed. 

I had this aha as I was walking through Rome last week. We were walking past the ancient ruins where Caesar was killed, when I realized, "You are living the dream." We'd been talking about going to Italy for two years and finally we were here. Only I was getting lost in an old story of the way things needed to be. 

I literally stopped in the middle of the busy street and shifted my thinking from feelings of lack to abundance, realizing I get to choose how I think and believe. Now, you might be thinking, 'you're in Rome, that's a no brainer. I'm stuck in a job, a home or an area I don't like. 

If so, let me ask you this - has your job afforded you things you never thought you might have? Are you with someone you never imagined would show up in your life? Do you have a hobby that you've gotten to pursue or reconnected with an old friend? Think back to a time when you only dreamt about what you might be, do or have now. 

Were any these elements a part of dreams you never thought possible. If so, have you taken the time to acknowledge them and celebrate? We have to take time to celebrate, otherwise life is only a series of what we want and don't yet have. 

My healing tip for you today is to simply breath, making the exhale longer than the inhale to turn on the parasympathetic nervous system and calm mind and body.



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