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🚨 Impromptu recording! 🚨 Bridge Over Troubl

🚨 Impromptu recording! 🚨

Bridge Over Troubled Water
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Posting something like this is a HUGE step for me. Why? I often let perfection get the better of me and so I resist posting a lot of things because they are simply "not good enough".

But I am learning to ask myself... "Who is it not good enough for?" I've created my own metric and set the bar incredibly high.

And then the larger question... "What IS good enough?" And there really is no simple way to answer that question.

We have no right to the fruits of our labor. I have NO RIGHT to determine what is considered good enough.

We all have the desire to share, and we all censor ourselves due to fear... due to resistance. Weʻre born with a desire to belong AND trained to fear failure because it means weʻll no longer belong.

I love these lyrics. I speak to myself in this song. Donʻt resist being who you are and sharing your light in order to belong. Trust that you will belong BECAUSE you are who you are when you share your light.

#lettinggo #sharing #belonging #singer #singing #actor #piano #pianist #music #musician #growth #growthmindset #learning #relaxed #mindset #fear #failure #trust #believe #release

✨ Mental Exercise ✨ #twominds #thinking #emot

✨ Mental Exercise ✨

#twominds #thinking #emotion #judgment #observe #mentalhealth #detachment #growthmindset #selfawareness #awareness #exercise #training #growth #development #journey #work #self #help #wisdom #selflove #compassion #forgiveness #takecontrol #goals #motivation #inspiration

#3 Attachment to the Present LABELS. They help us

#3 Attachment to the Present

LABELS. They help us make sense of the world, but they can lead to a fixed mindset. Seemingly innocuous phrases such as "I have a high-pitched voice" can turn sour... "I have a high-pitched voice, and women don't like that." The comes the aggressive renouncing: "I have a high-pitched voice and anyone who doesn't like it can f*ck off". Trouble is, that doesn't mean the label has been destroyed... It's quite the opposite. In fact, that person believes it so vehemently, and now they are massively out of alignment.

EMOTIONS. When we over-attach to our emotions, we get lost in them. We don't realize that emotions come and go... ALL of them. And some of them can make us regret our actions later. We cannot control our emotions... but we can detach from them. We can observe and release them, and we can best do that by identifying the emotion and realizing that the emotion does not define us. We are NOT the emotion; we are feeling the emotion.

JUDGMENT. This is the biggest culprit of attachment to the present. We make judgments based on our own thoughts. We make judgments about ourselves based on what we think others think about us. How terrible is that?

Hamlet said, "...there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." This might not be the way it was intended to be interpreted, but it sure works. You create good, and bad is created. Binary relationship.

One argument doesn't make a relationship bad, unless you decide it does. One negative event doesn't make a day bad, unless you decide it does. One bad choice doesn't make you a bad person, unless you decide it does.

The events happening in your experience are neutral. How you perceive and interpret those events determines your journey.

Resist the urge to label... the urge to judge. You'll probably falter and fail, but when you do... pick yourself up and try again.

#development #detachment #mentalhealth #performer #letgo #intellectual #healing #perspective #reset #mind #gratitude #actor #lettinggo #time #forgiveness #awareness #selfawareness #growth #growthmindset #mindset #attachment

#2 Attachment to the Future Yesterday I was tryin

#2 Attachment to the Future

Yesterday I was trying to fly to NYC. My first flight to Charlotte was delayed; I would miss my connecting flight. WORRY got to me, and I started to feel stressed. Should I hope that flight was delayed? Pick another connection? I even had my wife trying to help me from home because the airline's app wasn't giving me options. A switch would mean I'd get in 6 hours later than I wanted. IMPATIENCE got to me; I began to wish I was in NYC already. Second flight: delayed, then canceled. Worry, part 2. Do I stay the night at the airport? Spend more money on a hotel? Then I was saved by the bell. I got an agent on the app, but the earliest flights would have me miss my callback. I doubled back and flew home. Then I started to ponder the "what if" (good old REGRET)... Rationalizing my choices and trying to make peace with it all. Attachment to the future and then the past. We have some control over the future, but we have zero control over the past. I had thrown myself all out of alignment.

I'm honestly proud that I was still able to show gratitude to my wife for absorbing all of my fear and worry. I genuinely thanked the woman on the app who helped me get home, and thanked the woman who helped me submit a delayed baggage report.

It's going to happen. You are going to throw yourself out of alignment. It's unavoidable thanks to our Thinking Mind. But, we can develop the ability to tame and quiet it. Use the tools from this series. Grant yourself the grace when you fall out of the present moment, and simply get right back on that bicycle.

#attachment #performer #letgo #intellectual #healing #perspective #mind #gratitude #detachment #reset #actor #lettinggo #mentalhealth #time #forgiveness #awareness #selfawareness #growth #development #growthmindset #mindset

#1 Attachment to the Past The four words I bring u

#1 Attachment to the Past
The four words I bring up in this post are doozies: Shame, Blame, Guilt, and Regret. All four of these include some element of holding on. Attaching to events and bringing those moments into the present. Sometimes even into the future! But all this does is poison us. A positive event in the past can even turn into something negative through the devious trickster Regret... The healthiest way for us to continue moving forward is to detach. That doesn't mean ignoring things or pretending they didn't happen. Accept that they are a part of your past and turn your lens around to view things from another perspective. 🧐

For that I bring to your attention three things: Forgiveness, Appreciation, and Gratitude. Prevent the past from poisoning your present and future by using these to detach and let go. You can accept your past without getting attached to it. It is the healthiest way to live in the present and start looking at what you want your future to look like. ❤️

#awareness #selfawareness #growth #development #growthmindset #mindset #perspective #mind #gratitude #detachment #reset #actor #lettinggo #mentalhealth #time #attachment #performer #letgo #intellectual #healing #forgiveness

Time and Attachment. This is a prelude to a series

Time and Attachment. This is a prelude to a series of posts I am going to do about this topic. Since my childhood, I have been a pretty intellectual person. I rely on my intelligence for a lot of my life... but it can also end up being the thorn in my side, especially when it comes to being creative and working in the performing arts. I'm still learning to let go of a lot of my intellect, and while I know it seems almost counterintuitive to come at these concepts from a thought-based perspective, it works for me. It's what's safe for me. But I hope it can take me on the journey to letting to a lot of the mental blocks and boundaries I have created for myself. I hope my thoughts can also help you! 🙏🏽

#mentalhealth #time #attachment #detachment #perspective #actor #performer #letgo #intellectual #healing #awareness #selfawareness #growth #growthmindset #mindset #mindfulness #mind

Goals are a good thing to have, but we must also w

Goals are a good thing to have, but we must also watch out for the dangers that come from getting too attached to them. I share words that I have said to myself, and how I choose to move away from that negativity and find motivation again. 🙌🏽

#growth #mindset #awareness #gratitude #positivity #mentalhealth #goals #perspective #motivation #selfhelp #frustration #fear #selftalk #honesty #truth #life #journey

Got the shot last Friday! One and done. I’m than

Got the shot last Friday! One and done. I’m thankful and grateful 🙏🏽 It’s been uplifting to see everyone getting their shots on social media, and I am happy to consider myself among them 🤙🏽 #covid19 #vaccine #janssen #onu #ohionorthern #twoweeks #actor #actorlife #health #science

✨ What you are not aware of cannot be healed. ✨

I once had a conversation with a friend about someone we both know. I'm sure you have all been there. Situations like these often result in venting or complaining. After a while, my friend commented on my level of self-awareness, and that comment has stuck with me though years have passed.

He took notice of how I worded things. He said, "Most of the statements coming out of your mouth include 'I' and 'me', not 'they'. This shows that you are putting attention to how you are reacting just as much if not more than the original event."

I could have easily unloaded about all the things that person did and kept the focus on them. But my attention was on how I was feeling, and how I was responding to those stimuli.

Me unloading all of my grievances and complaints would not have changed anything and would not heal me in any significant way. But taking the time to look at myself, there is potential for change. I can grow and I can heal.

Do you have a memory that stands out as a particularly strong self-awareness moment? Or maybe a healing moment? Share in the comments below. 🙏🏽

#meditation #selfawareness #mentalhealth #growth #change #healing #mindfulness #mindset #actorslife #actor

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We can ALWAYS work to be better. Perfection doesn’t exist. However, we CAN strive for it while also accepting that we will usually fall short of it. What we must not do is let it discredit the journey that has already been taken.

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Wow, the NYT published the faces and names of the children killed in Gaza.

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35 Senate Republicans voted to cover-up the deadly attacks of January 6, 2021.

Remember their names.

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Got the shot last Friday! One and done. I’m thankful and grateful 🙏🏽 It’s been uplifting to see everyone getting their shots on social media, and I am happy to consider myself among them 🤙🏽 #covid19 #vaccine #janssen #onu #ohionorthern #twoweeks #actor #actorlife #health #science

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