How is your experimenting with SNAP
(Stop, Notice, Ask, and Pivot) and RAIN (Recognize, Allow, Inquire, and
Nurture) going this week?
One note: you are not aiming for
a homerun every single moment and every reaction
you offer this world. Remember, in
baseball, if you get a hit 30 percent of the time, you are a candidate for the Hall
of Fame. I would say that if we can
be less reactive in our lives 20 percent of the time, the reverberation would
be felt in the world today.
If you haven’t liked the
previous two, let me offer one more: ADD, which stands for:
Acknowledge ~ what is in you and around
you.
Discern ~ why are the emotions or
reactions there?
Decide ~ how you’d like to respond
rather than feeling pushed or pulled in a direction
Like anything, the more you
practice this, the more your mind, heart, and soul form pathways to let this
process become more natural and normal. I know the best time for me to start this is not
some town hall meeting with a topic I am passionate about or at Thanksgiving
with a relative whose views are offensive.
The best time to start this is in a place and space where you are safe,
secure, and can feel soothed.
The best time to start this is in a gathering where you are open about
what you are doing. I find that if I
start the day by journaling my ideas, it can help guide me. If I start the day acknowledging that your
feet hurt and you're tired because you stayed up too late reading. If you discern that you are on edge and that the
caffeine you are gulping down right now is contributing to your jitters. Then, you can decide before you let loose
your pain on some unexpected person.
Take time today to review which
of the three processes you find most helpful and how/where you might let these
words shape the world within you and around you.
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