On day 10 of a mindfulness experiment, the creator reports his wife noticed a real change in how he handles stress. He's shifted from reacting to interruptions to staying calm through grounding, sunlight, journaling, and meditation. He's planning new strategies for the next week.
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Okay, so it's day 10. Queen and I are out for a walk, and you'll notice that I have my glasses on because it's after 9 AM, so I've missed the ideal morning sunlight today. But, uh, so here's, here's what I've noticed. I've been focusing on controlling the things that I can and trusting that the things that I don't have any control over are going to present an opportunity to fix, to be fixed, or work themselves out. I've also, this being very aware of how I react to interruptions or inconveniences, has really made a big difference in just my internal state. The ability to respond has increased versus react, to have an internal sense of calm about the things that I have to do in my life and the— sorry, just got distracted there for a minute— and being able to just focus on like working on the things that are important and prioritizing and not getting overwhelmed by the big picture, like everything that needs to be done. Also, I've noticed that, you know, the grounding and the morning sunlight, taking that time to just get centered in the morning, any of the journaling and the focused, you know, prayer meditation time has really shifted how I feel internally. So I'm 10 days into this process and I already feel, you know, a measurable amount of progress. Also, I checked in with my wife and asked her, said, have you noticed a shift? And she said she has. So that's really encouraging. Any of you that are following along with me, I would love to hear what you're doing this week as we go forward. And, you know, days 11 through 17, whatever, I'm going to focus on giving some specific new strategies, things that I'm doing. That hopefully will be helpful, as well as I've been reading, you know, different inspirational books to kind of remind myself of great wisdom concepts, things that I learned years ago that maybe I've forgotten or have not put into practice, and I want to be sharing those too. So here we are, day 10. Thanks for watching. Have a great day or evening, whenever you're seeing this, and I'd love your comments. Please let me know what's shifting in your life, what you're working on, where are the blocks, what are some things that you want to overcome. And you know, if you don't want to post that publicly, that's fine. You know, direct message me. I'd love to be able to engage with you on that. All right, talk to you soon.
