The Mind Body Project
The Mind Body Project
MM Ep 31: Rest To Renew
A short, honest story shows how a ten-minute reset can turn a sour morning into a bright one. We share simple ways to use quick pauses to change state, protect relationships, and steer the rest of the day.
• a child’s fast mood shift after brief rest
• why micro-breaks calm the nervous system
• simple reset ideas that fit real life
• early signs you need a pause
• small rules that make resets stick
• how a short reset helps you show up kinder
Thanks for joining me on this week's Mindful Moment. I look forward to seeing you right here next time on Mindful Moments.
Welcome back to Mindful Moment. Thank you for taking a little time to join me today. A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to for my grandsons to visit, and they live about four hours away. So it's always a special and nice time when they come to visit. We typically are blessed enough to have them for the three or four days at a time because they live a distance away. And this particular weekend, my grandson had had gone to bed. I think it was on Saturday night. He woke and he went to bed early, maybe like eight o'clock. He's three and a half. He went to bed at eight o'clock. He didn't get up until almost 7:30, quarter to eight the next morning. Might have been even eight o'clock. And I went ahead and got up. Kim, my wife was up with our other grandson. He's just a little bitty, one-year-old. And so I went out there. I was still sleeping in bed with my grandson. And I left him in bed, left the door cracked. So I thought, well, it's about time for him to get up, so maybe he'll get up while we're getting breakfast ready and and and getting the day going. And so about 10 minutes after I get up here, here he comes. And he is whiny. And he he wants his Kiki, which is which is Kim. And so he's hugging on her. And he's and I said, Do you want some breakfast? Do you want some donuts? And I know he's whining and just grumpy. And so Kiki says, Do you want to go back to bed? And he says, Yes. So she takes him back in there, lays him back down. He's down for maybe 10 minutes. He comes out, a completely different kid. He's he gives hugs, he gives kisses, he wants to eat some donuts for breakfast. He wants some chocolate milk. He he's just the happiest kid. It's like a totally different kid from 10 minutes ago. And as that happened, I thought about us. And I thought about how often do we are we like that? Are we like a little three-year-old? We just get cranky and irritable and ugh. But and we just keep on pushing through the day like that. We just keep on going and being grumpy and being irritable and being angry and mad and unhappy. When sometimes all we need maybe is a 10-minute reset. Maybe it's not going back to bed. Maybe it's just some meditation. Maybe it's just some relaxing time. Maybe it's some alone time. Whatever it is for that recharge, that reset. He went back to bed, he reset, came out totally different, kid, and was great the rest of the day. If we just kept pushing him, pushing him, probably the day would have gone pretty lousy. He'd probably have been in a bad mood, throwing some fits, got in trouble, but took 10 minutes, reset, came back out. And then we need to do the same sometimes. Instead of keep pushing on and making everybody else around us miserable, because every question we asked him was no, whiny, I don't want that. And we're the same way. We're no different than a three-year-old when we when we wake up like that and we go through the day like that, something happens. Sometimes we just need that 10-minute reset, whatever that looks like for you, and go, okay, I'm gonna go back at it. I'm gonna come back to this day in a different attitude, a different mindset. And so that's my challenge to you. When those things happen, and you find yourself push, push, push, pushing, take that 10 minutes, go do a reset, whatever that looks like for you, and show up to the rest of your day way different than you were before because it will make a difference for you and it will make a difference for those around you. Thanks for joining me on this week's Mindful Moment. I look forward to seeing you right here next time on Mindful Moments.