Choose Meaning, Not Meltdowns

Denise trades a rigid morning routine for flexible practices and a kinder inner voice, showing how a late start can still lead to a grounded day. She sits with grief and acceptance, choose neutral meaning, and plan micro-practices that fit into real life.

• early start, school contracting context
• missed meditation and journaling, sleep struggles
• redefining happiness as acceptance and peace
• naming grief while staying present
• catching harsh thoughts and choosing compassion
• keeping meaning neutral rather than negative
• weaving micro-practices into schedule gaps
• inviting listener questions for tailored guidance

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Chapters

• 0:00 Early Start And School Contracting
• 0:19 Missed Routine And Sleep Struggles
• 1:08 Redefining Happiness As Inner Peace
• 1:44 Grief, Acceptance, And Self-Compassion
• 2:36 Reframing The Day And Adjusting Plans
• 3:33 Neutral Meaning And Listener Questions

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:00

It's morning time here in California. It's really early. I'm headed to I contract two days a week at a middle school and high school. So I'm headed to the high school today. And today is the first day in months, months, months, that I woke up and I did it. I woke up late, so I didn't have enough time to do my morning routine, which is usually it's a 15-minute meditation, and then I do five-minute journaling, and then I do another like 10 to 11 minutes or 12 minutes, depending on the tapping that I'm doing, a tapping meditation. And then I just get dressed, get ready. But today, so yesterday I'm being very real. So I just want to say, like, I have a little problem with sleeping. I don't sleep early. I'm a night owl. So I I I'm intentional with going to bed early. Yesterday I just kept pushing myself and I slept late and I couldn't really get up. But anyway, what I'm trying to say is, however, I'm still creating my inside because we always say that it's your internal world, the happiness you feel inside. And I think we maybe we uh we don't differentiate happiness while we think happiness is constantly like laughing and stuff. No, I think it also happiness is being an acceptance internally in your internal world and in presence and in peace. So there's a lot of stuff that I'm going through right now that are really, really difficult. And yesterday I was really in so much emotional pain. I was crying, like crying about a situation pain and um like in just in so much grief, like the crying was just so deep. Um I was sad, of course, because we're human beings, we have all those emotions, but even with my sadness, I'm at peace with the situation. I understand the situation. Do I like it? No. And uh so today when I woke up, yes, I didn't do all of that, and I went back. First, my thoughts were, oh my gosh, Denise, why did you do that? And then immediately, due to the awareness that I have worked so hard for, I reminded myself that this is not a thought that I want to be thinking right now, and just be compassionate with yourself. So I went to compassion, being compassionate with myself, forgiving myself for sleeping through the alarm or turning it off on what it's saying. And then I was like, today is still gonna be a great day, even though I didn't do my morning routine, I didn't have a meditation, but today is going to be the best day. And now I'm in the car headed and I reminded myself that I have time in between sessions and I will incorporate my meditations, my journaling, my whatever in there. So life is gonna be lifeing. The circumstances and the obstacles, but you get to choose. Of course, and I left a message for Kira this morning, reminding her to remind me. We always leave each other voice messages like that. But as I'm leaving her the voice message, I know what she's gonna say, don't assign meaning. So it is the meaning and interpretation that we assign to the situations. So instead of assigning a negative meaning to the situation, I'm just keeping it neutral and remembering some positive things that happened around the situation in the past. If you have specific questions about a situation that you're going through, either Kira and I can answer them. This is premium content for you. And the thing is, you already know us by now. You've been listening to us for now, you know our strengths, you know, our weaknesses. So you can definitely address it to either one of us or to the both of us, whatever you want. So I hope you're having a beautiful and great day. And I hope today is your best day.