The regular Mind of Snaps podcast is on a hiatus still, but I'm working on bringing it back. There ARE still more podcasts available on my Mind of Snaps Youtube channel, but they just haven't found their way here yet.
I have been releasing Positivity Podcasts from my Patreon here for a while now and I'd like to know if you'd like more of these to be released. I'm doing my part to put out as much positive and encouraging content as I can during these intense times we're faced with. If you'd like to make it easier for me to dedicate the time to continuing these on a daily basis after that, subscribing to my Twitch channel, tipping, dropping bits in Twitch and/or subbing via the Patreon can make a massive difference - but so can just tweeting out my content, sharing it on socials or telling a friend you think could use a boost. Every little bit counts...literally.
This is my 17th Positivity Podcast on the Patreon and I hope you take the message to heart and use it as a guide for bringing more awareness into your life. Pay attention to the things you're thinking, and especially the things you're saying. It impacts the way you view the world around you!
The format for these podcasts definitely evolved over time, but I hope you enjoy listening, even though times have changed.
Listen, and let me know your thoughts.
Hang in there friends, we're all in this together.
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Hi, my friends. It looks like we have hit the part in the positivity podcasts where they really started to shift. They went from being just affirmation based to being a little bit more challenge oriented. Here are some things to keep in mind Bring this three, or we can do what you can with it. So this podcast that I'll be sharing with you today and it's April 1st 2020 so happy for 20 months everyone, this podcast comes to you from October 14th 2019 and it's all about the language you use. Use this as a guide as a tool to remind yourself to pay attention to the things that you think and the things that you say. Especially they changed the way you view the world. They change the way you interpret the world, interact with the world, everything language matters. I hope you enjoy this positivity podcast and just a reminder. All of the goals for my twitch channel have reset as of the beginning of this month today, So if you want to help us earn more community nights and raffle of coaching sessions, you can do that through supporting twitch. If you choose to support the Patri on you can participate in a live video chat that will be doing bi weekly. Our next one is coming up on the 11th. We'll have another 12 weeks after that. We have a nice video chat talk about where we're at in our lives that are mental health, how we can continue to learn and grow from there. And we're also gonna be reviewing this book called Who Moved my Cheese? Really great book Really short. Highly recommend that you read it. Anyway, I'm proud of you. You're doing great. Take some deep breaths, drink some water and I hope you enjoyed today's podcast. Hello, friends. It's time for another positivity podcast. I think I've decided that these make more sense to do at the start of the week. So hopefully having these to look forward to is gonna help you all stay on a good track during your weeks today I want to talk about the importance of language, the words we use matter. I know that I talk about this frequently during streams, so I want to further explain my reasoning for being so very strict on choosing healthy or empowering language whenever possible. I'd like to challenge you all to remember to check your impulses and think before you speak and honestly think before you associate too much with the thoughts that have a tendency to pop up in your minds. I think this quote from a book I just picked up today called Words can Change. Your brain can help explain it better than I can. Angry words send alarm messages through the brain, and they partially shut down the logic and reasoning centers located in the frontal lobes. This is what was written in this book by Newberg and Waldman. They then continued to elaborate by explaining how choosing the right words can impact our reality by holding a positive and optimistic word in your mind. You stimulate frontal lobe activity. This area includes specific language centers that connect directly to the motor cortex, responsible for moving you into action. And as our research has shown, the longer you concentrate on positive words, the more you been begin to affect other areas of the brain functions and the parietal lobe start to change, which changes your perception of yourself and the people you interact with a positive view of yourself will bias you towards seeing good and others, whereas a negative self image will include you towards suspicion and doubt. Overtime. The structure of your thalamus will also change in response to your conscious words, thoughts and feelings. And we believe that the thalamic changes affect the way in which you perceive reality. Pretty interesting stuff, right? So if you do what I did and you research the benefits of positive self talk as well as the effect of negative self talk, I think you'll likely find yourself in a position similar to mine, where you want to choose your words very carefully, knowing that it changes the way you view and are able to interact with the world around you. Gratitude is a really great example of this. We talk about gratitude all the time, choosing to use language emphasizing how grateful you are for all of your blessings, including the people in things in your life can change the way you view your surroundings. When you make gratitude of regular focus, your brain goes to work for you, and it does its best to help you identify other things that you have to be grateful for. so we practice gratitude and chat regularly. But if you've never been there before, when we did it, you can practice it on your own easily. I like to make it a part of my daily practice in my journal. I just make five quick bullet points and then jot them down. But I also use this on demand. When I noticed myself feeling frustrated or overwhelmed, or I noticed a ton of just negative thought patterns, and I'm struggling to refocus myself. I hold up a fist and then I slowly count off five things, one for each finger and, yes, your thumb as well that I'm grateful for. The fun. Thing is, this really can be anything. Appreciate all things, including the little things. 80 lt you know, appreciate the little things. So that's just one way to include more positive language in your life that is likely to have a lasting impact. But there are other ways to work on your language. Another way is to use challenging questions to ask yourself if the language you're using is helping or harming. I like to go pretty general with this, and I simply asked myself, Is this true? knowing that the truth is a funny little word that can sometimes complicate things. As an example, I can say I think you suck and it will be true. I'm doing a little air quotes your true in the sense that I have identified that I think you suck. But objectively, me thinking that you suck doesn't mean that you d'oh! So it's really untrue at the core. That's the first question I ask myself. Is this true? The next question I ask myself is, Is this kind? I believe we need to work harder to be kinder to ourselves and others. We really need to lead with compassion. You just don't know what other people are going through. So when you think about saying something about yourself or someone you know or don't know, for that matter, stranger on the Internet, ask yourself, Is this kind? If it isn't, it's probably probably not something that needs to be said. But this third question may help you make a final ruling. So if a statement you intend to share is true but isn't kind, then ask yourself, Is this necessary? This is a big one. What do you stand to gain or lose by sharing your thoughts on whatever it is that's going on. If another person is involved, is it absolutely necessary that you share your thoughts with um, or is it likely to only hurt their feelings because it's something they can't do anything about? Alternatively, it could be something that you feel they can do something about. But volunteering your thoughts on the matter may only make them feel badly because you don't know what efforts they've put in already. So I think those air effective questions for checking your own self talk and the things that you say about or two others before speaking. And I also found some additional resource is that I want to share now that I think you're gonna be helpful for self talk. Specifically so on the website sikes central dot com. They have an article about challenging negative self talk that I think could be helpful to many of us. They break it down into four main types of challenging questions. One is reality testing, reality testing, and some of the examples of that are these questions. What is my evidence for and against my thinking? Are my thoughts factual Or are they just my interpretations? Am I jumping to negative conclusions? How can I find out if my thoughts are actually true? That's all for the one type of challenging questions. That's for reality. Testing Next up Number two is look for alternative explanations, So look for alternative explanations. Are there any other ways that I could look at this situation? What else could this mean? If I were being positive? How would I perceive this situation? So that's looking for alternative explanations. Number three. Putting it in perspective is this situation is bad, as I'm making it out to be. What is the worst thing that could happen? And how likely is it? What's the best thing that could happen? What is most likely to happen? Is there anything good about this situation? And I think this is maybe my personal favorite out of the putting it in perspective category. Will this matter in five years time? Moving on to the 4th 1 using goal directed thinking is thinking this way, helping me to feel good or achieve my goals, what can I do that will help me solve the problem? Is there something I can learn from this situation to help me do it better next time. I love these questions, especially because one of the ones we talked about in chat very frequently is what can I do? Often times were presented with situations where we feel overwhelmed with all of the things that we are unable to do. I can't do this, so I'm stuck. I can't do this, so I'm stuck. I'm not able to do this, and therefore everything is terrible and I can't do anything. It's times like that where I tell my brain, Stop, Answer me this question. Brain work for me here. What can I do? What can I do that helps me to keep moving forward in my goals in my life, in my mental health, whatever. So those are some questions that I think could be really beneficial for you, and I'll include the link that outlines thes questions so that you can utilize that moving forward if you like. It will be in the description of this quick podcast. So remember, awareness is the first step in this pay as much attention to the things you're thinking and saying, and then exercise that amazing power you have and start working to change them so they can work for you. Empower yourselves in thoughts, words and actions, my friends. And then watch how your life changes. Thank you for tuning in to another positivity. While words are hard for me today that you were tuning into another positivity podcast. I appreciate you all immensely and I hope that you have a killer week manifest dope shit. But he