S1 E4: The Super Wise Happy Episode

Today's episode offers various reminders to keep gratitude at the forefront of your list of items to-do.

Transcript

What's up good people? Welcome back to the super wise. Speak, space. It's your favorite spiritual sister, the super wise intelligent, here to bring you some super good conversation.

Here.

Come on in, come on in.

Come on in the room.

We're not going to have a lot to talk about today. I ain't going to take up a lot of your time today. But I did have something on my heart that I wanted to discuss with you all because I consider you my friend and that is awareness and our current state of happiness. I'm saying our, but I'm talking about your individual state of happiness and my individual state of happiness. And I wasn't even going to record a blog today, but I was working out after work and it felt so good and I do it in nature. I take these really nice walks with one of my friends here and.

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Scenery and the peace and the healing that I encounter when we take these walks is something that has to be experienced. There really aren't any words for it. It is something that is chemical that happens in my body when I'm out in nature just being grateful. And that's what I wanted to talk about really. The happiness that comes from gratitude, the happiness that comes from existing in a state of being grateful for where you are and what you have in the moment. And that's hard to do because right before I had gotten off from work, I wasn't even thinking about not being stressed. I wasn't thinking about just grounding myself in the moment. I had like a million and one things on my mind, a million and one processes running simultaneously. And that's the thing about the mind. Even if you're not conscious of it, you are still processing information and sometimes it makes it hard to just focus. And that's what that workout, that soul spiritual walk after work, that's what it helps me do. It helps me to ground myself and regain my focus because lately I have been quite stressed and I don't even know why. And I think it's like the residual from all of these thoughts I have because thoughts are depositing actions, right? Even after the thought has passed, your body is still recovering from what it did while in thought about the thing, especially if the thing was a stressful thing. And for me, we have a lot going on right now in my life at work.

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It'S like the residuals of that make it really hard for me to settle down, get out of work mode. And I'm really trying to take ownership of that because I don't want to give corporate government, any other entity outside of myself, that much access to my energy because it impacts my happiness and it don't take much for me to be happy. I'm learning like the older I get, it really don't take much. It's when I start feeding into.

Social.

Media especially Instagram because I have like three Instagram pages. One for my Fashion, Beauty, and Lifestyle channel, one for this channel, the super wise, intelligent, and then my personal one, and the one that I frequent the most is my Fashion, Beauty, and Lifestyle channel because that's where I have all of the things that I like in one place, right? But I scroll through this stuff and I'm just like, oh, I want this, I want that. And it's like it's crazy making because it's so impulse driven. And I'm just like, whoa, whoa. What am I doing? What am I doing? Why am I even entertaining this stuff, man? Because I see it.

And it's like your mind.

Just as you scroll, so does your mind. I always have to force myself to put that mess down and just find a way to ground me. And it's hard because when you plugged in, you're plugged in. It's almost like a drug that you have to wean yourself off of. And as I was walking around and if you want to see the scenery that I see when I take my Soul Walk, visit my V superwise Instagram page. If you've made it to this podcast, then you should see the information linked below the podcast in the lowercase I information bubble on the right hand side or something like that. You should see it there so you can go look at take a look at those pictures, man, and stuff. Stuff is beautiful. I don't even have words to really describe it other than it being majestic. But going back to happiness, you really have to be careful right about now because there are so many people in situations that we just seamlessly integrate ourselves into on a daily basis, whether we volunteer or not. It's almost at a point where not almost. It is at a point where you just have to be protective and aggressive about protecting your piece all the time.

All the time.

Because I guarantee you, there are people around you who just don't know how to be happy. I don't even know if they want to be happy because they've never been happy before. They don't know what it feels like. You know how people get comfortable in being bitter and comfortable in being complacent to the point where if you show them another way of being, they tell you that you're doing something wrong or they try to correct your happiness. Excuse me. Excuse me. You want me to what? I'm not tempering down my happiness to match your bitter. Why would I do that? But there are a lot of people whose energy just won't match yours if you trying to be a chill and calm person, and I encourage you to do that. I encourage you to take the reins on your bitterness and do something to transmute that energy into groundedness. And one of the ways you can do that is by practicing gratitude. Now, I'm going to keep it realistic because I know the way that I do things is probably not a realistic way for everyone else, but I'll still share it with you. I keep a manifestation journal. I firmly believe in that. And I like to write out things.

That I'm grateful for. Start with five.

If you want to do this, start with five things that you are grateful for and do it every day and trust and believe me, you need to remind yourself of what you have to be grateful for every day. Because by the time life gets done with you on a day to day basis, you forget you will probably come out of the day feeling more depleted than you will fulfilled. Because there's so much that just sucks the energy right out of you. But you have to replenish yourself. And sometimes we try to be the givers because thankfully we have an overflow of love and support to give. Most of us do. If you don't, you know what I'm saying? I'll pray for you. Seriously, it's not funny.

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Then this message is especially for you. If you are a person who finds yourself in a perpetual state of dissatisfaction, this is for you. This message is for you. Take some time out of your day and you specifically spend some time gathering yourself, coming back into yourself and figuring out what it is in your life that you have to be grateful for. I'm not saying to do not compare yourself to anybody else, anybody else's successes or failures right now in the space that you are in. What is it that you are grateful for? Then come up with five things that you can do to make your life better in the moment. One of the things that you can do honestly is just take a moment for yourself. Whether it means you need to go to just go in the bathroom and just stay there for a minute or two or three, however long you need to just breathe. If you have clutter in your space, clear your clutter. That is one way you honor yourself. Clear your clutter. Take some time to think and to breathe. Give yourself space to honor the fact that you've made it this far in your life regardless of what the circumstance is, right? You made it this far. Give yourself credit for that. It's not easy existing right now. And there are a plethora of types of existences, but for whatever yours is, that's enough for you right now. You exist right now and as long as you are existing, you have an opportunity to make your situation better. You know what I'm saying? It's so easy to get overwhelmed in lack mentality and that stuff robs you of your joy, just like comparison to other people robs you of your joy. And I encourage people to temper how much access you give yourself to the social medias of the world. I'm all for social media. I need social media for my various projects to be successful, but I encourage people to be healthy about how much of it they consume because it's not always a healthy space when it comes to your mentality, and you need to protect your peace at all costs because it's absolutely connected to how happy you are. Social media makes it so easy to not be grateful because it's showing you a whole lot of shit that you wish you had. And the majority of it is not something that you are capable of acquiring as soon as you would like to acquire it, which makes you anxious and stressful because of whatever that cycle looks like for you. So just unplug for a little bit if you need to.

That stuff ain't going nowhere. Unplug.

You'll be all right. I just want to encourage people to find their grounding space for me. My grounding space is taking a soul walk at the end of my day to help recalibrate me and prepare me to walk into whatever the next day will bring. But it also brings me down to size enough for me to walk in my gratitude. So by the time I make it home, I am just so grateful to have had the experience to have been so in touch with nature to the point where the awe of it all proceeded or the awe of it all took priority over any other thing that was on my mind at the time. And that is the majesty of nature, of walking through something that is so much larger than you. You really just get caught up in the majesty of a thing. And my happiness comes from my gratitude, honestly, because I'm telling you right now, I'm so guilty of this, I forget what I have because I come up with a goal in my mind, right? Because there are so many more things that I would like to do with my life. And sometimes I get so caught up in just trying to achieve that I forget how much I've already achieved, how much I've gained, how much wisdom, knowledge and knowledge, wisdom and understanding that I've attained thus far. That shit goes out the window in my mind. Sometimes I call myself stupid. Sometimes I call myself dumb because I don't give myself grace enough for not knowing what I don't know. And I also don't give myself grace for knowing what I absolutely do know, right? I'm okay. I'm good. But when we succumb to this mentality of having to have the next best thing, it robs us of our joy in the worst way possible. Because many of us have done exceedingly and above all that we thought we would be able to do. And we forget because we want to do more. And there's nothing wrong with wanting to do more. You just have to be gracious for what you've already done. Don't forget. Because you need those lessons to take you into the next phase of your life sometimes. So I just wanted to say that I just wanted to say that because it feels so good to have some form of an exercise. And I'm not talking about going to the gym. I'm talking about practicing a thing that assists you with that, ushers you into a state of gratitude and being gracious. Because we need that, y'all? We need to be reminded of who we are and what we have and why we are good. And you're good. Trust me, you're good. So I have a call to action. I'd like to challenge you to write a list of five things that you are grateful for and if you feel in Froggy, go beyond the list of the five things you are grateful for and write a list of five things that made you happy today or five things that you would like to do tomorrow that will make you happy tomorrow and make it a point to grant yourself the room to achieve those things. Make your happiness your priority, starting right now. Really, if you do what you have to do to ground yourself, to remember who you are, to remember where you came from, and to remember what you have achieved, you deserve that type of self recognition, and you deserve that type of peace. Most of all, you deserve that much joy, and you deserve that much happiness. That's all I have for you all today. Go be good people.