Travis Thomas shares a four-step practice to shift your emotions: identify what you're feeling, ask why, pause and notice it, then intentionally choose a focus to change how you feel. He's on day 5 of daily yoga and meditation, and frames the technique as a mindfulness replacement for "stop, drop, and roll."
Good morning, everyone. Here is your Moment of Yes for Monday, May 30th. Happy Memorial Day to those in the United States, which is a holiday Monday. So hopefully you are doing something restful, relaxful, enjoyable, something to kind of commemorate the day and to unwind and recharge as we move forward into a new week and as we move forward into yet another month. Crazy. All right, here in Cincinnati still, we are not resting. We are moving forward. Full day of training here. So your moment of yes for today is what I want you to do is right now, right? So I started my commitment, my yoga commitment again. So I just finished day 5, day 5 of daily yoga, which is daily yoga slash meditation slash mindfulness slash just being still. So if I were to ask you right now, what are you feeling? What are you feeling? Your answer, your response would be, what? What are you feeling? Notice that. Now ask yourself, why am I feeling that? Why am I feeling this? And whatever emotion or whatever feeling, maybe you feel tired. Why do I feel tired? Because I was up too late last night. Or why do I feel anxious? Because I'm waiting to hear from a client. Or why do I feel rested? Because I got great sleep last night. Why am I excited? Because we're going on a trip. Just, you know, what are you feeling? And ask yourself, why are you feeling it? And now we are going to be intentional and we're going to get to choose, what do I really want to focus on right now? Right, because when we change our focus, we change our feeling. Right, so if I'm going to focus right now on surrendering, all right, what I'm going to feel is peace. What I'm going to focus on right now is being energetic, right? What I feel is going to be energy. So we're just— it's instead of stop, drop, and roll like we learned in a fire, it's stop, pause, notice, And now choose. Stop. How are you feeling? Pause. Notice it. Why are you feeling it? All right, now choose what you want to focus on. When we, when we focus our intention, when we focus and choose our behavior, that's going to shift actually how we feel and what we experience. So let's do that right now. Let's all intentionally choose what I am going to focus on. And maybe you need to do this activity or video an hour from now or later in the day, and that's okay. We can be doing this all day on our own. All right, let's rock it. That's your moment of yes for today, everybody. Have an awesome day. Bye.
