POSSIBILITIES

There are more stars in the universe than they can count; they estimate that there are around 2 septillion stars. There are 100 billion stars in each galaxy, and there are 2 trillion galaxies, and I think about the same 5 things all day long.

What are your 5 things? I’ll wait.

Our brains are truly spectacular, they hold the possibility of all the stars in the universe, but they are lazy. Our brains are like gifted children who only want to play candy crush and eat grilled cheese.

Let’s say you are standing on one side of a field and you have to get to the other side. There is a mowed path to the other side right in front of you. Because you are not insane, you’re probably going to take that mowed path vs going through the waist deep itchy sticky you don’t know what’s in that field way. That’s how your brain works. It does such a good job at homeostasis!

But here’s the problem, those five things that you are thinking about all day long, they are signals that maybe you need to do something differently, and to do something differently, you need to do something differently.

If we do not do the uncomfortable work of stamping down, step by step a new path in the field we get stuck in the little cages we create. There are an incalculable number of potential neural pathways in the brain; that means there are so many possibilities that we cannot count them, and yet so often they feel out of reach!

When I was a child I believed I was lucky. I don’t know where I got this belief from, but I had so much faith in this idea. It didn’t matter that phones were being torn out of the wall, I was lucky no matter what. Then more life happened, and at some point, I started to think that I was unlucky, that I had used up all my luck. Now imagine going out in the world with the idea that you are lucky and then with the idea that you are unlucky.

We create our whole lives based on our belief system.

Write down five beliefs you bring with you into the world every day.

I am feeling so inarticulate today. I am feeling so sticky today. I am outside of my comfort zone doing this newsletter; but I want more life, and so I continue to do it.   This newsletter is my walk through the waste high field to get somewhere new.

This video is so outside my comfort zone that I don’t even have an analogy; maybe just rocketed to another galaxy of discomfort altogether. I am speechless actually, except in the video where I apparently have a lot to say, and I wish I was wearing a different shirt.

So, The Possibilities VIDEO…

I hope you drive a different way to work this week. xx Jenny

Landscape with Stars c. 1905 Henri Edmund Cross