Sunday Spark Sessions is about creating mindfulness or finding mindfulness in a fast paced world. The first place that we start is adding in more leisure, leisurely activities. We can create and cultivate more thoughts of inspiration, motivation, fun, happiness, abundance.
The thoughts that we think create, create our material reality. Through diligent effort, daily affirmations, daily imagery, like mental rehearsal, we can completely overhaul and change our mental thoughts. Adding in more leisure activities in your routine will create a much more coherent brain, coherent body.
Hello Cadre. Welcome to Sunday Spark Sessions. And today is about creating mindfulness or finding mindfulness in a fast paced world. And it is a very, very challenging area for all of us, myself included. And a large part of getting to that place of mindfulness is, is carving out space in our schedule. BD984, 4810 Jewels. Be happy. Welcome. Nice. We got a lot of people tuning into Sunday Spark Sessions. Welcome. Welcome. A big part of learning how to create and cultivate mindfulness in a fast, fast paced world is.
Drumroll please. Leisure, more time. Good evening. Good evening Am. ARR. Welcome. Welcome. Carving out leisure in our day, in our weeks, in our months. Super, super helpful for creating mindfulness. And just like those times when you feel like time is speeding up so quickly and you're really enjoying yourself, you're really in the moment, you're really present, that is when you're in that sweet spot between mindfulness and flow, like your flow. So it's like when you're so immersed in something, you're so immersed in that activity that you're doing that.
Good evening Amer. Thanks for tuning in. You're so immersed in something, you're so in flow that you're not thinking about anything else. And although we can't stop thinking our thoughts, if this is a challenge like that we all have, right, we can't stop thinking, but we can be the creator of our thoughts and create better thoughts that are more in line with the person that we want to become. And we can create and cultivate more thoughts of inspiration, motivation, fun, happiness, abundance. We can create those, those thoughts.
It just takes a little bit of inner work, a little bit of time and you, your mind will be in a much better place. And the first place that we start is adding in more leisure, leisurely activities. This could be going on a bike ride. This could be puzzles, if you like puzzles. This could be journaling. This could be for myself. I've always found, I've always found ways. So when life gets really tough nowadays I meditate a lot. So I'm on this kind of meditation journey right now where I'm trying to do 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes and like before bed.
So I'm trying to get to that place. So I'm on an eight week program and I'm trying to do 40 minutes a day because already I've seen a huge improvement on like the way I can show up like with my wife and my family. And I'm just a lot more mental wealth. Nice Luke, I think that's. That looks. Looks like the Cadre podcast. That's awesome. Super stoked. Have you on. It's just so like made such a game changer for my mindset. So finding ways to add in more leisure, like I said, journaling, puzzles for myself.
I love video games. Like, and I'm only doing this once a week. I used to do video games daily when I was a kid. I just love video games. It was sports, like lots of activity. Weightlifting, running, like playing soccer, playing sports to 20 minutes right before I jumped on. Nice for. Did you do 20 minutes of gaming or 20 minutes of meditation? That's awesome. I actually just did a meditation just before this live too. Excellent, Jules, excellent. So it's like it's learning for you what leisurely activities you love to do.
And the way that you know that that's the activity for you is what do I like to do? That the time just flows, it just goes. The time just passes by. Yeah, Jules, Meditation. Excellent. Excellent. Yeah. So when we're doing something, when we're fully immersed in it, when we're in flow, when we're not even thinking about anything else, that's the activity that you wanna do. That's the activity that will take you from half. Like that saying goes like, looking at the glass, half full, looking at the glass, 75% full, 80% full is when you're doing that activity that will give you that energy that you seek, that mindfulness.
In this fast paced world now more than ever, people want peace of mind. People want to go on a spiritual journey, people want to escape. Right. So rather than. So I went through this phase a little while ago when me and my wife moved from one city to another city that we're in now. And I just. The vibe of this city, it took me a while to adjust to. It wasn't particularly the city that I wanted to be in because it was a mismatch of energy, of my energy, because I was used to living in this other city.
And then this other city that we live in now is much more slower pace. And I'm like, I like fast pace. I like continuously moving, growing. And I like to be in a city where there's expansion going on, where there's expansive thinking, open thinking, open focus. And I just didn't feel initially right away that I was getting that when we're living here. But my issue was I realized after going on this meditation journey, I was looking for something. I was looking for external validation or external feelings outside myself, when in actuality I had to do the inner work inside myself and change my inner world.
Because when we change our, when we change our thinking, when we change our inner world, we eventually can change outside of ourselves, our outer self and the material world that's outside of us and everything in it through thought alone. And it's through these meditation sessions that I've been having these kind of epiphanies that our mind is a supercomputer. Our mind has tremendous potential to change. And another thing that I've just been learning in my books that I'm listening to, doctored by Dr.
Joe Dispenza. I finished listening on Spotify, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, Becoming Supernatural. And now I'm on his third book, you are the placebo. So he basically, in this book now, you are the placebo. He's talking about how we are the placebo and how we are the creator of our life and how the thoughts that we think create, create our material reality. So when we, when we don't like the environment that we're in or we don't like the thoughts that we're thinking, we have the ability to change those.
And although it might feel like they're hardwired from over a long period of time, through diligent effort, daily affirmations, daily imagery, like mental rehearsal, thinking about that, that, the, that visual or that imagery of where we want to go and what we want to create continuously a couple minutes a day, every day for an extended period of time can completely overhaul and change our, the trajectory of our mental thoughts. And when we change the mental trajectory and we change our mental thoughts and like those kind of, let's say, negative thought patterns, if we learn how to break away from those negative thought patterns, that's when our life changes.
That's when things outside of us start to change. And although it sounds kind of like a little bit woo woo, it's not, it's science and it's, it's just learning how to change our thoughts. And it's, it's not easy. It takes time, it takes effort. But being, being able to learn how to change our thoughts and change the, and change our. Well, while we start changing our thoughts, it'll eventually change our life trajectory. So just want to say utilize when you're feeling overwhelmed, when you're feeling numb, when you're feeling like things are really challenging, don't worry, you're going to get through this.
We all have challenging times. It's all about learning how to navigate emotional challenges, learning how to regulate our emotions better and how another like strategy on how to do that is through adding in more leisure into our daily and weekly routine and monthly routine. And I guarantee you when you're finding other leisure activities to add in right when you were working really hard, we're working really hard in our business or our job. We need to also have reset time. Because reset time with that leisure activity that you love will help you catapult past those obstacles or those barriers that you've been trying to get past a lot easier because your your your body and your mind are more in sync.
So I hopefully you found this helpful. Thank you all for tuning into this live. And again, carving out more leisure activity in your routine will create a much more coherent brain, coherent body, and build that mindfulness that you've been seeking, whether or not you meditate or not. But utilizing that leisure time will make you feel a lot more at peace and be able to navigate this fast paced world that we live in. So thank you all for tuning in. I'm your host Alex from the Mindset Podcast, founder of the Mindset Podcast and the creator of my YouTube channel, Mind M I n D C P.
So anyone new here? My name is Alex, founder of the Mindset Podcast and I would love you all to tune into my YouTube channel as well where I share daily content of mind, body and soul. So thanks for tuning in and for this Sunday Spark session and stay tuned for this Wednesday Wealth Wisdom Wednesdays and all my content on my YouTube channel. So thank you all for listening and have yourself a great Sunday and a great week ahead.
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