 Hi, good morning. It's Bridget. Welcome to Sunday morning coffee with Bridget Today I have a question for you It's an opportunity for contemplation for reflection To deepen into yourself a bit. I'd like to invite you to grab out your journal or perhaps a notebook So that you can use this as a tool, okay What do I see? What do I see is the question. This is where we begin This is where we dive in Or maybe jump off depending on how you look at it What do I see? I came across a post on social media about focus talking about how Where you focus where you put your attention is What you manifest Where focus goes energy flows is a common phrase used in the healing circles and such And if you're listening to this, I'm sure you've heard that before where energy energy goes where focus is right or focus creates and manifests Often we focus on the negative what we don't want. This is natural. It's a human thing Because our brains help us to survive You've heard this before as well too, especially if you've been trying to manage your stress if you've learned anything about meditation or mindfulness You know that your mind is very strong and it has this incredible tendency toward alarm toward constant hyper vigilant focus your mind also has a tendency to be scanning the environment for any potential hazards or risks to you Because your mind's job is to protect you and keep you safe and now where we are here now in this unique Unprecedented time that we're living in as I am recording this Sunday morning coffee episode. It is December late late December 2021 we have been through an incredible Turbulent time of change where we have been stuck Collectively in our homes in Our jobs in our families in our situations and circumstances to no fault of our own because of the external environment That has been challenging our health our wellness and Shaking every single structure that we have come to know as our routine our safety our safe haven The the way that we are to act are the things we can expect from life and to these structures have dramatically shifted and Everything is uncertain The truth is is everything has been uncertain before but our mind has focused on keeping us safe by honoring the structures By working within the confines and constraints of what we perceive through our minds eyes as safe steady and ultimately Comfortable I have said for years in my journals in my counseling sessions with my counselor and my coaches that I want My children my family and For my friends and myself. I want to be comfortable. I want my kids to be comfortable and Comfortable means a lot of different things. It means Not in danger, right like with the brain Not in danger no threats right to our health our safety our wellness Comfortable also means financial security and stability Comfortable means that we have love Given back to us even if we are not loving outwardly But we have love coming into us like streaming in like live streaming love So that we are affirmed in our value in our worthiness and our identities That's what that energy of comfort and being comfortable Has represented and now Here and now we are on the edge the laser the the razor sharp edge of change And if we slide one way it's going to cut us and if we slide with it It's going to help us against it cuts a bloody mess and With it it makes everything smooth and Beautiful and it reveals our innate natural beauty So now this question what do I see it is about focus? Yes, it is about using the mind Through a technique like journaling or mindfulness meditation or visualization when you visualize You use your brain and your brain then Begins to be included In what you are wanting consciously and with intention To create and manifest for your life then we can Slowly gently shift away from scanning the environment for danger and hazards and We can open up to scanning the environment for opportunities To be more creative and curious To have experiences that open us and expand us Where we learn things that are interesting We're not afraid of change We allow The evolution of our natural ability our natural desire For connection to come through and not to be that desire of natural connection that we have everybody has it everybody wants to have connection We we will then Build this trust with our mind that allows us to have that connection without fear of change or fear of losing comfort Because we can be comfortable in the unknown That is a shock. Isn't it now? That's a unique concept being comfortable in the unknown That's a whole Sunday morning coffee episode itself. And right now we are talking about the focus and working with the mind and Gently allowing the mind to become part of this positive attraction the magnetic Attraction of what we see Through our hearts Leading with the energy of the imagery from our hearts the emotion to support the life that we want The things the elements the attributes the feeling of the idealic life We don't need the exact Detailed a description depiction of the vision we have in our mind if you envision a multi-million dollar beach house You don't need the multi-million dollar beach house, but you do need to and will You will if you focus and allow this energy to attract into your life You will attract in magnetize some of the attributes and characteristics of the feelings of that multi-million dollar beach house So for me For a Bridget here as I am sitting in my cushy chair in the wee hours Of this Sunday morning recording this for you I am envisioning that energy of that beach house vibe for example I love the idea of being by and in a warm environment We're gonna use our senses. Okay, so what do I see? We're gonna start with using our senses because that's really fun and that's a way that the mind can let the body and the heart work together and Become part of this expression of you Because the expression of your life isn't just your mind It's your mind heart body and soul and your mind and your body Are the human attributes characteristics and trait holders the gatekeepers of the actual physical expression The heart is awesome because it's got this bridge between the soul and the body and the mind and I Mean it can really negotiate it can really work all of the energies and bring everything together And so the heart with the sensory and senses if you partner the heart with the body Oh my gosh, you have like limitless potential here. Do you see this? amazing the mind Can deal with that when the body and the heart are working together the mind's cool with that it can handle it So when I think about that beach house, okay, so here's my thing I Like warm weather, you know it if you followed me on my fairy grasshopper YouTube channel and my vlogs and my posts there You know or my Bridget inspired on Instagram or Facebook You know, I love warm weather and it's kind of strange right that then well, but I live in Minnesota But Minnesota is beautiful and it's got seasons. It's got all these gorgeous changes and perks and Just it's there's so much goodness here and yet when it comes really cold winter I long for the warmth the humidity of like an climate like a Florida, okay, and So I go there a couple of times a year when I can and I play there with my intuition and My imagination and my creativity and my childlike sense of wonder and I hang out at Disney and you know that I Don't even have to go into the parks I can just be there in the atmosphere and soak it up and I love it. I just love it. It brings me joy and So my vision when I say what do I see I see a warm climate I see a warm day and The idea of a beach is fabulous to me not because I want to go swimming in the ocean, but because I want the sound and The sensory input of the auditory waves the rhythmic Pressure of the waves, let's say it that way because there is the kind of this pressure that comes in this rush that comes in with the waves I love the sound of them Now the warm weather the sun the humidity and the sound of the waves I Can literally see a shoreline and I imagine it like in a Florida because I've been there so many times I haven't been on the beach so many times But I've been in Florida so many times because I love the Disney vibe that creative imaginative childlike wonder energy magic magic adult magic and I So I picture Florida that's just what I feel right so that's what I see I see Florida and I see This energy of this hot Sun and this humidity and I can literally feel it and if I Give myself a moment to just close my eyes I can feel it I can feel the way my skin feels and how happy my skin is and how Instantly my body lights up and lifts up because of that golden Sun And if I listen to the rhythm of my own heartbeat In my body, I can feel the rhythm of the waves in my heartbeat I can feel the energy of the sensory input of the rhythm of the waves Coming into me and I can imagine the sound of it And the colors and the light blues and the healing cool energy contrast with the hot humid energy It's perfection to me I feel so Peaceful and yet alive like I feel vibrant in this energy And all it takes is for me to ask for what do I see this is what I see I see this I See this and so in my life here today now During the solstice time in December 2021 I actually went to the North Shore of Lake Superior and I spent some time in Duluth, Minnesota Beautiful port just so you know if you ever come to Minnesota go North Shore. It's gorgeous beautiful parks gorgeous landscape the waterfalls and Our gorgeous had gooseberry falls and it was just beautiful northern Minnesota So the pine trees the birch trees the oh my gosh, it's just beautiful Lake Superior. I Was staying right on the edge of Lake Superior there Of course, and I had a view of Lake Superior and you open the door and I was there in the winter So it was like chilly, but it was so peaceful and beautiful. However I've been there in the summer At the same place the same hotel you open the door and on and to the balcony and you can hear the waves coming up against the rocks because it's a big rocky shore huge big rocks there and you can hear the waves I Have had the opportunity and the privilege to stay on the ocean front before on both Let me see if I have stayed on the I've stayed on the West Coast in California I don't know if I've stayed on the ocean. Oh, yes. I have yes. Yes. Yes. I have yep. Yep I've been to a Silamar Where Deepak Chopra has in the past hosted some of his his Retreats and things I haven't been to one of his but I've been to a Silamar Oak Grove, I think it was And so right on the beach there right on the ocean there And you could hear the ocean you leave the door open you could hear it You could smell it that salty smell air that's beautiful And I've also stayed on the Gulf Coast the in the inner side the Gulf of The Gulf in Florida and so I've stayed there as well So I've had experience there too where you open the door and just you can smell the salt and then the air you can smell the I don't know if it's salty really there. It just smells like It just it just had there's like kind of this heaviness like a humidity there kind of it just kind of lingers I love that so I've had those experiences, but when I'm in Duluth on the North Shore And it's hot and humid in August and you open the door and it just brings in the breeze the air just comes in It feels very similar to that and I can hear the waves crashing against the shore and that kind of Rush and that pressure of excitement when there's that connection to the rocks from the water and It feels good It's is it exactly the same no But it is the vision of what I see and How I can connect with my senses to what I see and what I vision and what I know brings me alive So for you today, I ask you the question What do I see ask yourself this what do I see? When you are looking at your life and you are focusing on things or you are noticing let's say let's start with that when you are noticing things What are you noticing? What do I notice? And if you're not going right to the what could go wrong and what is bad and what isn't working in your life That's normal Don't feel like you have to judge yourself and say oh, I'm negative. Oh, I'm looking at the negative Oh, there's something wrong with me. Oh, I must be depressed. Okay, don't do that because we know what happens with that You're just creating Attracting magnetizing that do you want to feel crappy? Okay, no, I'm gonna assume you say no Would you like to feel better? I'm gonna assume you're saying yes This is how Acknowledge that the mind is scanning for potential problems and let it do that for a second and then say okay What do I want to focus on? Then you scan and you look for something simple that is calm or peaceful start with the calm or peaceful vibe Something that is just mellow and chilling. It could be a bird out the window Could be the clouds in the sky just chill in there floating by it could be the snow gently falling Nature is great to get to practice focus nature is great to practice connection because it's it Doesn't have a stake in it's not another human. It's not something you made It's something that's just there in present that you can access and tap into at any time So nature is easy to use this as an example. Okay And you focus on that what is calmer peaceful just chill and mellow and Then after you do that then If you get to that place you kind of raise your vibration just a little bit Then you say what do I see and then you look for something beautiful like a simple beauty Like the way the snow kind of clumps on to the edges and clings to the edges of the evergreen trees When there's enough of moisture in the air and it kind of sticks And it kind of weighs them down just a little bit But then the sunlight comes out and it reflects through that And some of the branches and the needles on those evergreens kind of shine through light and it's just like they're sugar coated It looks like it's so picturesque. It looks like a christmas card That is beauty simple beauty natural beauty And the natural beauty or those beautiful things that you see and you focus on and you can pick up on Can bring your vibration up to a place where then you can actually start to focus on what do I see for my life? What do I see for my future? What do I see? In my mind's eye as my best life As my beautiful life Do not dumb it down for what you think you can get Gently level up The energy vibration training your mind away from just the negative and bringing in Calm and peace and then beauty Calm and peace and then beauty And then you can ask yourself and entertain the idea of what is possible for me Not the not the pressured stress like oh my gosh No, I have to figure out how to manifest this or maybe I should pick things that I can think I can actually accomplish No, I'm not you're not setting goals with me right now. You are just asking yourself What do I see? And you start with the real environment and the real life And then you level up after the calm and the peace and the beauty Then you level into this imaginative creative visionary dream board like state so that you can capture And identify those elements of that vision of that dream board life In your current present life like I just did I gave you an example of it This is not about accomplishment and goals achieved. This is about living It's about living The best you can and as beautiful as you can For you because you deserve that and your mind your brain actually does want you to be happy I know that seems like a shock because you put so much pressure on yourself and you judge yourself a lot I do too. I'm raising my hand But your mind she he they want you to be happy to Just believe that And try this What do I see? I see beauty in you You who are listening to this right here and right now You may not feel it. You may not look it when you reflect back in the mirror You may feel like oh, I don't look like that. Oh, I'm not oh, I'm not that I'm not that but you are beautiful I know you are that's what I see. I see your beauty Your beauty is in your potential It's in the energy vibration of your essence of your heart of the energy of god universe consciousness within your spirit in your soul You are beauty. You're absolutely beautiful. You're beautiful you are And your mind as overprotective as it is We just have to encourage your mind to understand It's role and it has your back Well, it actually has your front your sides your option. It has everything like it's it's got a little too much control It's just a little overprotective And we can soften the mind with what? Your beauty and that's what I see Your beauty Yes, yes, I do You are beautiful. You are beauty focus on that Amplify that attract magnetize that and the vision for the life The elements of the vision of the life that you desire and dream of The beautiful life Well, this is Bridget. Welcome to Sunday Morning Coffee with Bridget. Thank you for being here. I appreciate you Listening to my Sunday Morning Coffee podcast. I so enjoy this It's just part of my work on above life channel on youtube. You can also find me at fairy grasshopper on youtube And at Bridget inspired on instagram and facebook Thank you so much for being here for being part of the journey and for letting me talk and you're here to share To grow together I hope that i've inspired your spirit filled you with hope and encouraged you to live your life. This is your life after all And you get to live it just live it