March 24, 2025 • 18 mins
Feeling stuck in a cycle of waiting for your circumstances to change before you can experience happiness? Today's episode reveals a powerful truth: finding joy might be simpler than you think.
Meet one of my coaching clients-a high school junior who went from anxious and unmotivated to confident and thriving in months. The secret? Rewire your brain for joy. We will explore how intentionally focusing on even the smallest enjoyable aspects of challenging situations can literally rewire your brain for happiness. This isn't about toxic positivity or ignoring genuine problems—it's about discovering authentic pleasure within your current reality.
I share the neuroscience behind this approach, explaining how our brains naturally move toward pleasure and away from pain, and how we can use this tendency to our advantage.
You'll learn practical techniques for shifting your focus, including breathing exercises, keeping a joy journal, using pressure points to calm, and the powerful "Three-Day Joy Experiment" that could transform your relationship with your daily routine.
Whether you're dreading Monday mornings, feeling stuck in challenging relationships, or simply seeking more happiness in your everyday life, this episode offers a science-backed approach to experiencing more joy without waiting for external change. Ready to start clearing your own path to happiness? Join me for this illuminating exploration of how small perspective shifts can create profound internal transformation.
Thank you for joining me!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Just Count Me In, a podcast designed to
help you break free from yourlimitations and step into the
life that you actually weremeant to live.
I'm Sari Stone and I'm aholistic coach with a background
in education.
For the past six years, I'vebeen guiding people to transform
their lives from the inside out.
My journey, to be honest withyou, was not always clear out.
(00:27):
My journey to be honest withyou was not always clear.
For years, I actually felt likeI was living someone else's
life, checking all the rightboxes but never feeling quite
truly fulfilled.
That all changed when Iexperienced a few miracles, met
some incredible teachers and hada major wake-up call that
forced me to shift my entireperspective.
And had a major wake-up callthat forced me to shift my
entire perspective.
Wayne Dyer once said when youchange the way you look at
(00:48):
things, the things that you lookat change.
And that is exactly what thispodcast is about Helping you see
your life in a new way so thatyou can start living with
authenticity, purpose andpassion.
Each week, I'm going to bringyou 30 minute episodes filled
with insights, practicalstrategies and inspiring
(01:15):
interviews to help you uncoverwhat truly lights you up and
identify what's been holding youback.
Eventually, this is going toignite your motivation and
create real change.
Are you ready to step into thelife you were meant to live?
Then just count me in Hit,subscribe and join me on this
journey.
If this episode resonates,please share it with a friend
(01:35):
who needs a little inspirationtoday.
Let's do this together.
So what if finding joy in yourdaily routine was actually
easier than you thought?
Small shifts in focus can oftenhelp you move from feeling
unmotivated and anxious tofeeling more confident and
energized, without even needingto change your entire life.
(01:59):
Sometimes big changes arenecessary, and when they are, we
work on that too.
But what if joy was possibleright now, even when things stay
the same?
In this episode, we're divinginto the neuroscience of
happiness how simple mindsetshifts can rewire your brain to
create more joy, even inunexpected places.
(02:20):
So if you've ever felt stuckwaiting for life to change
before you can feel happier,this episode is for you.
Let's start.
So I got off a coaching callthis week and I was just so
excited because this young manhas come so far in his journey,
(02:42):
and I asked him how everythingwas going and how everything was
going in school, and he isrocking it.
He is rocking his junior yearactually, and I'm just so, so
proud of him and so honored tobe working with him and it
hasn't always been that easy,okay.
(03:03):
So flashback to about sixmonths ago.
It was not going so well and hewas battling some depression, a
little bit of anxiety, someconfidence, just some issues,
and just one of the greatestpeople I know.
So this hard to watch, but Ialso realized, which I come to
(03:26):
realize a lot.
I have to just be with itsometimes and realize that it's
part of the path and part of hispath right now.
That said, we wanted to try tomove him towards joy and at this
point he didn't associatepleasure with school at all,
(03:48):
which he has to spend a chunk ofhis day there.
So we work with the brainbecause we know that our brain
goes towards pleasure and awayfrom pain.
It's a natural tendency.
And we also know that the brainlikes familiar.
So when it's familiar to go toschool and not like it which I
(04:10):
had that myself, I was a crierfor the first three years of
school I understand what itfeels like to get up in the
morning and just not want to gowhere you're going, going and I
know some of you have jobs whereyou might get up in the morning
and be like, okay, countingdown till Friday or okay, we
love Wednesday, we're halfwaythere.
(04:31):
I mean just talking your waythrough, bracing yourself to get
through the week.
So this episode is for anyonewho has ever struggled with that
and is curious about making theshift.
So we started by having himfocus on something that he did
(04:53):
enjoy and I said I only want youto think about things that you
enjoy.
Let's pretend that today allyou're going to do is things you
enjoy.
And he said, well, it wouldn'tbe school.
And I understood that, but italso did need to be school.
So I said there's got to besomething in there, you know.
And he actually decided thatsome of the people that he sat
(05:15):
next to he did enjoy beingaround and a couple of his
teachers he did enjoy listeningto Some of them were even funny
he did enjoy listening to.
Some of them were even funny.
He enjoyed some of his classeswhen we actually poked around
and dug around for a while.
And he enjoyed the creativitythat he was given in some of his
(05:43):
technology and engineeringclasses, the opportunities for
creative thinking.
He also enjoyed just the factthat he knew he had to get up
and get out of the house and heknew that that was good for him.
So there were some some thingsthat he actually enjoyed.
I've had some students in thepast enjoy doodling while they
were taking notes.
They take a break from takingnotes and they draw and they
enjoy that.
So anything that we can equateat this point is a positive.
(06:06):
He also enjoys being able tolisten to music.
So he has one earbud in and onewhere he's listening to the
teacher and that's worked reallywell for him.
So he's got that feel goodcoming on with his music at the
same time that he's sitting inschool.
So the more he practiced it helikened it to.
(06:26):
He lives in a state in Coloradowhere there's a lot of snow and
he thought about his dad usingthe snowblower and making a path
for their dog and their familyto go to the car, the driveway
and I've been to their house,it's a long driveway their
family to go to the car, thedriveway and I've been to their
house, it's a long driveway andthat every time somebody goes on
(06:47):
that path and every time hisdad gets it blown with the
snowblower, it gets a little biteasier.
And he said that's like whatI'm doing with my brain.
And I said it is exactly whatyou're doing with your brain
with those new neural pathways.
So very often we can take asituation where we might feel
stuck and we might feel that itwasn't a choice and we can see
the opportunities to enjoy partof it and it shifts us towards
(07:12):
joy.
It shifts us to that experienceand then, as a result, we start
aligning ourselves with a morejoyful vibration and seeing more
opportunities to feel joy inour lives because we want to be
where we are, we want to wake upand want to go where we're
(07:32):
going during the day.
We want to be around the peoplethat we're going to be around.
So if we could just focus onthe parts of them that we
actually enjoy, they will bringthose parts to show us because
they'll be a match for us.
So I listen a lot to EstherHicks and she talked about doing
a three-day period where youjust are going to do what makes
(07:57):
you happy and what you enjoy,and the first thing I thought of
was I wonder how many peopleare going to lose.
I love my job, but I wonder howmany people are going to lose
their jobs over this.
But then she clarified it andshe said it doesn't mean that
you stop going, it just meansthat you go and you can just say
hey, you know, this issomething that I just wanted.
(08:19):
I want to enjoy coming here.
So I'm only going to focus onthe parts of my job that I enjoy
just for today, and see whathappens.
So I thought this was kind ofinteresting.
So I'm doing a little springreset because, although I love
my work, there are some thingsthat I have to do that are my
adult responsibilities, domesticthings that really I'd rather
(08:43):
not do and I would enjoy doingother things.
So I tried to figure out waysto make this work for me, and
I'm on day one now and I can saythat it can't be long term that
the food shopping didn't getdone, but I didn't feel like
going.
But, to be honest, actually,actually, the house got really
clean.
I took a lot of joy out ofcleaning the house and it was
(09:04):
awesome, and so I can say thatwhen we give ourselves
permission to just do what weenjoy, you might actually
surprise yourself and find thatyou like something that you
didn't really think was going tobe on that list, something that
you didn't really think wasgoing to be on that list.
So I was wondering why are weso hung up about choices?
(09:28):
So I did a little research and Irealized that I learned,
actually, that our survivalinstinct tells us that we're
going to survive if we havecontrol, okay.
And so our conscious keeps usseeking control and our desire
for control is what keeps usseeking choices.
(09:51):
So that helped a little bit,because I thought, okay, it's
the old control thing, and now Iunderstand where it's coming
from.
So I can remind myself when Iget into my control freak mode
which I recover from quite often, it's periodic that I'm
surviving and I am just fine.
(10:12):
Okay, these are not choicesthat are keeping me alive,
necessarily.
And then I realized that, in thebody, enjoyment and happiness
and satisfaction and bliss andpositivity all work in your
brain and they're attributed tothe left hemisphere of your
(10:32):
brain, like the good, the morepleasant emotions live there and
the harder emotions live on theright side.
So that's what's happeningbrain wise.
And your amygdala plays apretty crucial role in how we
deal with situations.
We all know what that is whenit gets hijacked and we lose it.
So having good control andhaving clear pathways, familiar
(11:03):
pathways and strong pathways,strong neural connections to
pleasure and pain, I think giveus a little bit of insurance
that we're going to have properregulation of the frontal cortex
and it's going to be bettersuited to deal with challenges
when they come up.
The other benefits of enjoymentand doing what you enjoy and
choosing the parts that you likeare that all of those things,
(11:26):
the like and the interest, andthen amazement and bliss.
If you're doing a gradient forit see last week's episode for
the gradients that make ahealthy memory.
It's like a recallable memorythat we can pull up at any time,
like a thing of beauty, is ajoy forever and we can pull that
(11:48):
up during hard times and itbecomes a part of us.
We integrate that intoourselves.
So physiologically our body canrespond to that enjoyment so
many times over once we've putit into our long-term memory and
our bodies respond, we know, byfeeling peace and health.
(12:10):
And then we grow neuralconnections and strengthening
the existing pathways and we allknow that neurons that fire
together wire together and italso benefits our immune system.
So, again, deepening that path,making that path easier to go
on from the house to thedriveway when it snows by making
(12:31):
the trip more often is justgoing to be a win-win situation
going to be a win-win situation.
So one of the things that Isuggested was that to one of my
other students is that she keepa joy journal.
Just little things, littlethings that she was happy about,
because we've done gratitudejournals and she loves doing
(12:54):
that and gratitude journals aregreat, but this is just pure
selfish joy, just joy and maybeposting.
She was very big on tiktok then, so posting something on social
media, so your assignment isjust to post joy for the next 21
days, and she loved it and itreally shifted her life.
Last year as a senior in highschool, in my yoga class when I
(13:18):
teach, I tell people and Ipractice this myself to remember
to breathe as though everythingis going to be all right, and
my yoga teacher, matt, used tosay that we'd be in this really
challenging position and I havea, you know, love-hate
relationship with yoga.
I love it, I'll, I'll always bea yogi and I also fight it
(13:43):
sometimes.
So breathing when you're inthose challenging positions as
though everything is going to beall right, because really it's
not going to kill you to hold apose keeps me in practice.
When I'm not on my mat, when I'mfeeling out of control or a
little anxious or I'm going downa bad road with my thoughts, if
(14:03):
I remember to trick my bodyinto thinking everything is okay
by taking a few deep breaths, Istart to calm down.
It starts to turn on my nervoussystem.
Another thing that you can dois apply pressure points.
There's a space in the Vbetween your thumb and your
(14:25):
forefinger and if you press inthere you'll feel a little bit
of a sore spot in that L part ofyour hand.
And actually ourkinesthesiologist taught us
about this and she said thatthat helps your meridians before
muscle testing.
It helps to regulate things.
I don't know enough about thisto give you the research on it,
(14:46):
but I can say that it does workwith muscle testing.
And another place that calmsyou down are the acupressure
points.
If you take your earlobes fromthe front of the earlobe, that
hard cartilage part, and justkind of pinch it and go all
around your ears and I actuallytaught principals this in a
workshop once.
(15:07):
It was pretty cool to watchthem pinching their earlobes.
It was just because they'reusually a pretty serious bunch.
So another thing that I alsosuggest is grounding.
And now there's this wholemovement going barefoot, you
know, rubbing your feet in thegrass, going barefoot at the
beach.
It's, luckily, the way I grewup, but then got away from it
(15:29):
for a while as an adult, and nowthey're proving the benefits of
that again, as well as exposingyour eyes to direct sunlight
for a few minutes after the sunfirst comes up.
I know we were taught to notlook into the sun, but for the
first few minutes I don't thinkthat research is showing that
there's really not any harmfuleffects and it does help your
(15:51):
serotonin levels and it helpsyour melatonin levels to
actually set you up for a betternight's sleep levels, to
actually set you up for a betternight's sleep.
So I know this is a littlemini-sode, but I thought we
would just take a look at thisand maybe do a little spring
cleanse, a little spring renewal, where you just choose to do
(16:13):
what you like to do or keep yourfocus on the parts that you
like about where you are and theparts of the people that you're
around, just for three days,and just do it as an experiment
with me.
I will let you know when mineis over with and let's see what
happens.
Let's see if it actually callsforth more of this in our life
and we can bring more joy intoour lives.
(16:36):
So, as always, thank you forjoining me.
In this episode, you learned howa student focused on the small
joys in his life and in doing so, he actually rewired his brain
for more happiness.
He proved that joy doesn't comefrom changing our circumstances
always, but from changing ourperspective.
(16:58):
And he's not alone.
Great teachers like Thich NhatHanh, the Dalai Lama, even
ancient scriptures, remind us ofthis truth.
Modern brain research is onlynow starting to catch up to what
wisdom traditions have longunderstood.
If this episode had resonatedwith you in any way and you'd
(17:19):
like to explore how to bringmore joy into your own life, dm
me.
I'm offering special springrenewal coaching packages and I
would really love nothing morethan to support you on your
journey.
Thanks again for joining me.
Thank you so much for joiningme today.
If you liked this episode,please let me know.
(17:40):
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seeing you next time.
We're all in this together.
Welcome to Just Count Me In, a podcast designed to
help you break free from yourlimitations and step into the
life that you actually weremeant to live.
I'm Sari Stone and I'm aholistic coach with a background
in education.
For the past six years, I'vebeen guiding people to transform
their lives from the inside out.
My journey, to be honest withyou, was not always clear out.
(00:27):
My journey to be honest withyou was not always clear.
For years, I actually felt likeI was living someone else's
life, checking all the rightboxes but never feeling quite
truly fulfilled.
That all changed when Iexperienced a few miracles, met
some incredible teachers and hada major wake-up call that
forced me to shift my entireperspective.
And had a major wake-up callthat forced me to shift my
entire perspective.
Wayne Dyer once said when youchange the way you look at
(00:48):
things, the things that you lookat change.
And that is exactly what thispodcast is about Helping you see
your life in a new way so thatyou can start living with
authenticity, purpose andpassion.
Each week, I'm going to bringyou 30 minute episodes filled
with insights, practicalstrategies and inspiring
(01:15):
interviews to help you uncoverwhat truly lights you up and
identify what's been holding youback.
Eventually, this is going toignite your motivation and
create real change.
Are you ready to step into thelife you were meant to live?
Then just count me in Hit,subscribe and join me on this
journey.
If this episode resonates,please share it with a friend
(01:35):
who needs a little inspirationtoday.
Let's do this together.
So what if finding joy in yourdaily routine was actually
easier than you thought?
Small shifts in focus can oftenhelp you move from feeling
unmotivated and anxious tofeeling more confident and
energized, without even needingto change your entire life.
(01:59):
Sometimes big changes arenecessary, and when they are, we
work on that too.
But what if joy was possibleright now, even when things stay
the same?
In this episode, we're divinginto the neuroscience of
happiness how simple mindsetshifts can rewire your brain to
create more joy, even inunexpected places.
(02:20):
So if you've ever felt stuckwaiting for life to change
before you can feel happier,this episode is for you.
Let's start.
So I got off a coaching callthis week and I was just so
excited because this young manhas come so far in his journey,
(02:42):
and I asked him how everythingwas going and how everything was
going in school, and he isrocking it.
He is rocking his junior yearactually, and I'm just so, so
proud of him and so honored tobe working with him and it
hasn't always been that easy,okay.
(03:03):
So flashback to about sixmonths ago.
It was not going so well and hewas battling some depression, a
little bit of anxiety, someconfidence, just some issues,
and just one of the greatestpeople I know.
So this hard to watch, but Ialso realized, which I come to
(03:26):
realize a lot.
I have to just be with itsometimes and realize that it's
part of the path and part of hispath right now.
That said, we wanted to try tomove him towards joy and at this
point he didn't associatepleasure with school at all,
(03:48):
which he has to spend a chunk ofhis day there.
So we work with the brainbecause we know that our brain
goes towards pleasure and awayfrom pain.
It's a natural tendency.
And we also know that the brainlikes familiar.
So when it's familiar to go toschool and not like it which I
(04:10):
had that myself, I was a crierfor the first three years of
school I understand what itfeels like to get up in the
morning and just not want to gowhere you're going, going and I
know some of you have jobs whereyou might get up in the morning
and be like, okay, countingdown till Friday or okay, we
love Wednesday, we're halfwaythere.
(04:31):
I mean just talking your waythrough, bracing yourself to get
through the week.
So this episode is for anyonewho has ever struggled with that
and is curious about making theshift.
So we started by having himfocus on something that he did
(04:53):
enjoy and I said I only want youto think about things that you
enjoy.
Let's pretend that today allyou're going to do is things you
enjoy.
And he said, well, it wouldn'tbe school.
And I understood that, but italso did need to be school.
So I said there's got to besomething in there, you know.
And he actually decided thatsome of the people that he sat
(05:15):
next to he did enjoy beingaround and a couple of his
teachers he did enjoy listeningto Some of them were even funny
he did enjoy listening to.
Some of them were even funny.
He enjoyed some of his classeswhen we actually poked around
and dug around for a while.
And he enjoyed the creativitythat he was given in some of his
(05:43):
technology and engineeringclasses, the opportunities for
creative thinking.
He also enjoyed just the factthat he knew he had to get up
and get out of the house and heknew that that was good for him.
So there were some some thingsthat he actually enjoyed.
I've had some students in thepast enjoy doodling while they
were taking notes.
They take a break from takingnotes and they draw and they
enjoy that.
So anything that we can equateat this point is a positive.
(06:06):
He also enjoys being able tolisten to music.
So he has one earbud in and onewhere he's listening to the
teacher and that's worked reallywell for him.
So he's got that feel goodcoming on with his music at the
same time that he's sitting inschool.
So the more he practiced it helikened it to.
(06:26):
He lives in a state in Coloradowhere there's a lot of snow and
he thought about his dad usingthe snowblower and making a path
for their dog and their familyto go to the car, the driveway
and I've been to their house,it's a long driveway their
family to go to the car, thedriveway and I've been to their
house, it's a long driveway andthat every time somebody goes on
(06:47):
that path and every time hisdad gets it blown with the
snowblower, it gets a little biteasier.
And he said that's like whatI'm doing with my brain.
And I said it is exactly whatyou're doing with your brain
with those new neural pathways.
So very often we can take asituation where we might feel
stuck and we might feel that itwasn't a choice and we can see
the opportunities to enjoy partof it and it shifts us towards
(07:12):
joy.
It shifts us to that experienceand then, as a result, we start
aligning ourselves with a morejoyful vibration and seeing more
opportunities to feel joy inour lives because we want to be
where we are, we want to wake upand want to go where we're
(07:32):
going during the day.
We want to be around the peoplethat we're going to be around.
So if we could just focus onthe parts of them that we
actually enjoy, they will bringthose parts to show us because
they'll be a match for us.
So I listen a lot to EstherHicks and she talked about doing
a three-day period where youjust are going to do what makes
(07:57):
you happy and what you enjoy,and the first thing I thought of
was I wonder how many peopleare going to lose.
I love my job, but I wonder howmany people are going to lose
their jobs over this.
But then she clarified it andshe said it doesn't mean that
you stop going, it just meansthat you go and you can just say
hey, you know, this issomething that I just wanted.
(08:19):
I want to enjoy coming here.
So I'm only going to focus onthe parts of my job that I enjoy
just for today, and see whathappens.
So I thought this was kind ofinteresting.
So I'm doing a little springreset because, although I love
my work, there are some thingsthat I have to do that are my
adult responsibilities, domesticthings that really I'd rather
(08:43):
not do and I would enjoy doingother things.
So I tried to figure out waysto make this work for me, and
I'm on day one now and I can saythat it can't be long term that
the food shopping didn't getdone, but I didn't feel like
going.
But, to be honest, actually,actually, the house got really
clean.
I took a lot of joy out ofcleaning the house and it was
(09:04):
awesome, and so I can say thatwhen we give ourselves
permission to just do what weenjoy, you might actually
surprise yourself and find thatyou like something that you
didn't really think was going tobe on that list, something that
you didn't really think wasgoing to be on that list.
So I was wondering why are weso hung up about choices?
(09:28):
So I did a little research and Irealized that I learned,
actually, that our survivalinstinct tells us that we're
going to survive if we havecontrol, okay.
And so our conscious keeps usseeking control and our desire
for control is what keeps usseeking choices.
(09:51):
So that helped a little bit,because I thought, okay, it's
the old control thing, and now Iunderstand where it's coming
from.
So I can remind myself when Iget into my control freak mode
which I recover from quite often, it's periodic that I'm
surviving and I am just fine.
(10:12):
Okay, these are not choicesthat are keeping me alive,
necessarily.
And then I realized that, in thebody, enjoyment and happiness
and satisfaction and bliss andpositivity all work in your
brain and they're attributed tothe left hemisphere of your
(10:32):
brain, like the good, the morepleasant emotions live there and
the harder emotions live on theright side.
So that's what's happeningbrain wise.
And your amygdala plays apretty crucial role in how we
deal with situations.
We all know what that is whenit gets hijacked and we lose it.
So having good control andhaving clear pathways, familiar
(11:03):
pathways and strong pathways,strong neural connections to
pleasure and pain, I think giveus a little bit of insurance
that we're going to have properregulation of the frontal cortex
and it's going to be bettersuited to deal with challenges
when they come up.
The other benefits of enjoymentand doing what you enjoy and
choosing the parts that you likeare that all of those things,
(11:26):
the like and the interest, andthen amazement and bliss.
If you're doing a gradient forit see last week's episode for
the gradients that make ahealthy memory.
It's like a recallable memorythat we can pull up at any time,
like a thing of beauty, is ajoy forever and we can pull that
(11:48):
up during hard times and itbecomes a part of us.
We integrate that intoourselves.
So physiologically our body canrespond to that enjoyment so
many times over once we've putit into our long-term memory and
our bodies respond, we know, byfeeling peace and health.
(12:10):
And then we grow neuralconnections and strengthening
the existing pathways and we allknow that neurons that fire
together wire together and italso benefits our immune system.
So, again, deepening that path,making that path easier to go
on from the house to thedriveway when it snows by making
(12:31):
the trip more often is justgoing to be a win-win situation
going to be a win-win situation.
So one of the things that Isuggested was that to one of my
other students is that she keepa joy journal.
Just little things, littlethings that she was happy about,
because we've done gratitudejournals and she loves doing
(12:54):
that and gratitude journals aregreat, but this is just pure
selfish joy, just joy and maybeposting.
She was very big on tiktok then, so posting something on social
media, so your assignment isjust to post joy for the next 21
days, and she loved it and itreally shifted her life.
Last year as a senior in highschool, in my yoga class when I
(13:18):
teach, I tell people and Ipractice this myself to remember
to breathe as though everythingis going to be all right, and
my yoga teacher, matt, used tosay that we'd be in this really
challenging position and I havea, you know, love-hate
relationship with yoga.
I love it, I'll, I'll always bea yogi and I also fight it
(13:43):
sometimes.
So breathing when you're inthose challenging positions as
though everything is going to beall right, because really it's
not going to kill you to hold apose keeps me in practice.
When I'm not on my mat, when I'mfeeling out of control or a
little anxious or I'm going downa bad road with my thoughts, if
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I remember to trick my bodyinto thinking everything is okay
by taking a few deep breaths, Istart to calm down.
It starts to turn on my nervoussystem.
Another thing that you can dois apply pressure points.
There's a space in the Vbetween your thumb and your
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forefinger and if you press inthere you'll feel a little bit
of a sore spot in that L part ofyour hand.
And actually ourkinesthesiologist taught us
about this and she said thatthat helps your meridians before
muscle testing.
It helps to regulate things.
I don't know enough about thisto give you the research on it,
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but I can say that it does workwith muscle testing.
And another place that calmsyou down are the acupressure
points.
If you take your earlobes fromthe front of the earlobe, that
hard cartilage part, and justkind of pinch it and go all
around your ears and I actuallytaught principals this in a
workshop once.
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It was pretty cool to watchthem pinching their earlobes.
It was just because they'reusually a pretty serious bunch.
So another thing that I alsosuggest is grounding.
And now there's this wholemovement going barefoot, you
know, rubbing your feet in thegrass, going barefoot at the
beach.
It's, luckily, the way I grewup, but then got away from it
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for a while as an adult, and nowthey're proving the benefits of
that again, as well as exposingyour eyes to direct sunlight
for a few minutes after the sunfirst comes up.
I know we were taught to notlook into the sun, but for the
first few minutes I don't thinkthat research is showing that
there's really not any harmfuleffects and it does help your
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serotonin levels and it helpsyour melatonin levels to
actually set you up for a betternight's sleep levels, to
actually set you up for a betternight's sleep.
So I know this is a littlemini-sode, but I thought we
would just take a look at thisand maybe do a little spring
cleanse, a little spring renewal, where you just choose to do
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what you like to do or keep yourfocus on the parts that you
like about where you are and theparts of the people that you're
around, just for three days,and just do it as an experiment
with me.
I will let you know when mineis over with and let's see what
happens.
Let's see if it actually callsforth more of this in our life
and we can bring more joy intoour lives.
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So, as always, thank you forjoining me.
In this episode, you learned howa student focused on the small
joys in his life and in doing so, he actually rewired his brain
for more happiness.
He proved that joy doesn't comefrom changing our circumstances
always, but from changing ourperspective.
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And he's not alone.
Great teachers like Thich NhatHanh, the Dalai Lama, even
ancient scriptures, remind us ofthis truth.
Modern brain research is onlynow starting to catch up to what
wisdom traditions have longunderstood.
If this episode had resonatedwith you in any way and you'd
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like to explore how to bringmore joy into your own life, dm
me.
I'm offering special springrenewal coaching packages and I
would really love nothing morethan to support you on your
journey.
Thanks again for joining me.
Thank you so much for joiningme today.
If you liked this episode,please let me know.
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Stop by at social media, onInstagram or my Facebook page,
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If there's anybody that youthink could benefit from this
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seeing you next time.
We're all in this together.
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