Hello there and welcome to In the Flow with Lori Albert.
So yeah,
As always,
There's so much to say!
Oh my gosh.
Okay,
So I am back from vacation.
We went away.
Husband and I were vaccinated and it's been an interesting week and I can't wait to share this with you guys.
I was like every day something would happen and I'd be like,
Oh my god,
That is just,
You know,
I can't wait to share with everybody.
So you know how you go into things,
Especially like vacations or special events,
Right?
You have expectations,
Right?
You have certain things that you just sort of maybe assume that are going to happen or you know,
Things just start happening and you,
You know,
You just start assuming that it's going to be a certain way.
And then all of a sudden it starts not going your way,
Right?
Oh my gosh.
Okay,
So we go away and I,
You know,
And I had,
And I'll be the first to admit,
I had major expectations,
Right,
Of it was going to be this way,
That way,
This way,
This was going to happen,
That was going to happen.
We get to our place where we have a timeshare and our room is not available.
So there's expectation number one is thwarted,
Right?
Because we had to go into a room and then move to another room.
There is nothing more like seriously when you go,
Right?
So we had to go into,
And before you start saying to yourself,
Oh,
First world problems,
There's,
Wait till you get,
Till I get to the end here.
So I,
We had to go and get to another room.
Then all this stuff,
I'm not going to get into the minutia,
But all this stuff starts happening.
That is like expectations are being thwarted left and right,
Right?
And you know,
So as the second day,
Like illness and you know,
Just weird stuff,
Right?
So all this stuff starts happening and I started,
You know,
At first,
Like the second day in,
I was like,
Okay,
I can manage this.
I can manage this.
This is fine.
These,
You know,
I'm a spiritual human being.
I've got this,
Right?
And then by the third day or fourth day of things happening,
I was like,
Oh my God,
I can't handle this anymore.
Blah,
Blah,
Blah.
I started breaking down,
Right?
And all of a sudden something happened.
And to be honest with you,
I don't remember exactly what it was,
But all I could think of was it just,
Well,
It's probably my spirit guides telling me,
Lori,
These are lessons in gratitude,
Right?
So I started going through each and everything that was wrong,
Quote unquote,
So to speak,
And things that were happening and stuff,
You know,
And I was like,
Oh my God,
I'm going to find the gratitude in all of this because there's always a lesson.
And I'm like the queen of trying to find the lesson in everything that happens,
Right?
Good or bad,
Right?
But you know,
There were so many,
Like not,
You know,
Expectations.
These weren't horrible,
Horrible things that happened.
Okay,
So let me just get that straight,
Right?
You know,
I mean,
There is way worse problems in the world,
Obviously,
Right?
But again,
It's managing the expectations,
Right?
So then I started thinking,
Oh my God,
I need to get into the space of gratitude.
So I start getting into this space of gratitude.
And guess what?
Once I got there,
I was going through like my little list of everything that was happening.
And I'm like,
Okay,
So really?
Okay,
So we had to move rooms.
But guess what?
The second room,
So much better than the first,
Right?
So,
You know,
It's like finding those little things of gratitude in our lives.
When things go wrong,
Or when your expectation is really high,
Finding the gratitude just changes everything.
It changed everything for me.
Absolutely everything.
And it was beautiful,
Right?
So that is the lesson for today.
And that is what we're going to meditate on.
Taking away those expectations that we have in life and just living,
Being in the present moment.
It always goes back to that,
Doesn't it?
It goes back to being grateful in the present moment.
Seriously,
It's what it always goes back to.
So if we can sit in that place of gratitude in the present moment,
That is where the joy is.
That is where the joy is.
There's no other way to say it,
The bliss.
Right?
So we are going to meditate on this today.
Right?
So let's get ourselves comfortable because we're going to meditate on being grateful in the present moment.
Right?
So let's get ourselves comfy and get ourselves comfy and cute and sitting there beautifully.
Okay.
Alrighty.
Now let's take a nice deep breath in.
Close your eyes.
Take a nice deep breath in and release it.
Releasing those expectations for your day.
Perfect.
Right?
Release the expectations.
Release.
Release.
Just that frustration,
Stress.
And let's think just for a moment.
What are you grateful for?
What is it that you are absolutely grateful for right now?
Write this very second.
There's always so much.
Always so much to be grateful for.
Just think about two or three things that are just perfect in your life that you are grateful for.
And now as we sit in the quiet for just our few short minutes,
This is our mantra for today.
At this moment,
I am grateful.
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So we keep repeating that to ourselves.
I will keep the time and let's begin.
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