Hey everybody it's Alyssa here and what I wanted to talk about today is about being grateful and how being grateful has saved my life.
So there's a lot of you know things that happen in our lives that aren't the best you know really shitty things and it doesn't mean that those things aren't happening.
What I've practiced with myself is that I acknowledge the bad things that are happening but focus on the good,
Focus on my blessings,
Focus on what is working out because if I didn't have the blessings I had in this current moment that would really suck you know so I have to be thankful for all of the blessings that I do have in my life and what I do have and I have to appreciate what I have while I have it.
I think a really big lesson for all of us here is to be grateful for what we have no matter what's happening in our lives and it doesn't mean we can't get mad and we can't get upset and of course you know the ways that we feel are valid always no matter what that is.
I just focus on being grateful because it really helps make my day better and I truly do value and appreciate all of the blessings that I have in my life and when these challenges happen that's something that we need to face and we need to overcome and once we go through these challenges and get through it then we're just more stronger and you know there's just a lot of value in being able to overcome our challenges and still focus on the good things that we have because the challenges are going to happen and they're going to happen for us and it's going to kind of turn it back to us and say you know how are you going to handle it this time how are you going to approach it this time what are you going to do with what you have all these challenges are really redirecting the focus back to us to see how we're going to handle something how we can you know step up and show up for ourselves more you know understand something more like for example this is kind of a kind of a weird example but this was about like a few years ago somebody had got a hold of my social security number and all my information and some things were happening with that and I went and got a police report done and all that and all this stuff was like so super stressful for me that there were so many things that accumulated up to this point and then once that happened you know with my information being stolen for some reason I felt like that was my last straw and I thought you know I'm just gonna run away from all of this and and then I went and moved somewhere else it was easier for me to just move go to a different town you know get a different job everything it just felt easier to do that and in a sense I was just kind of running away from it I was convinced that you know everybody else was like fucking me over I was convinced like all these things you know I was just like I'm done with this this is ridiculous so all that stuff happened right well so now a few years later which was a few months ago there was a lot of things that were accumulating up for me you know I was always looking for a different job trying to be more stable and so then my car had got broken into my window was broken and my purse was stolen my purse it was a purse I'd had since I was like 18 it was like you know special to me and yeah I had my wallet in there it had you know my credit card all my stuff and so anyway so I you know called the police they came and did a police report and all that stuff and I had to go to work and I remember going to work that night and yeah I was like really upset like really really upset but you know I just did what I need to do for my job and showed up for myself in the way that I can show up for my job too and I had a whole list of things that I needed to do since you know with my car and so this time I approached the situation very calmly and it was the next day that I did a meditation and sent forgiveness to the person that broke into my car and so I could let go so I could let go of that pain that I felt from somebody doing that to me and I just sent forgiveness to that person so I could let go of this pain and you know just let go and that was really good for me and then I had my whole list of things to do and I let myself take care of it you know over the period of three four weeks you know each week where I had my time off I just spent time on it and I just approached it differently to the point where I was like okay these things happen I'm just gonna deal with this calmly you know and I felt like I had learned from last time and so this the way that I handled at this time I was just like okay you know shit's gonna happen and I'm gonna deal with it and I'm not gonna run away from it I'm not you know shit happens and most of the time we have to be the ones to talk ourselves up and help ourselves feel better
