Be Gentle

Welcome to the Daily Energized Podcast, your quick dose of clarity, quick tips, and the

spark you need to shine bright.

Here's your host, Spencer Jones.

What's up, Energizer?

You know, I like to ask questions for a lot of these daily energize episodes because

well, it gets us thinking.

It gets our mind looking maybe in a different direction or at something that we didn't

necessarily think about and hopefully, hopefully, something that can help you live your life

to the max.

Be at your best.

And so today's question will hopefully do those things for you.

And that question is, what would it look like to be gentle with yourself today?

It's a little different question than some others that we ask ourselves because oftentimes,

sometimes, you don't even think about those kind of questions.

For me, some of the questions I think is, what are the tasks I need to do?

Who do I need to call?

Oh, I need to get this done and don't forget that, Spencer, and nothing, so those are questions

or more reminders.

But I rarely ask myself, or I used to, I should say, rarely ask myself, well, how can

I show love to myself today?

How can I be, show myself grace and care and be gentle with myself today?

Instead of beating myself up saying, Spencer, you're stupid idiot.

How dare you do this?

Why is he?

No, because that's not true.

Like, I'm, I've gotten over that.

I don't need to beat myself up and you don't need to beat yourself up either.

You are too freaking amazing to be beating yourself up like that.

I hate to break, too.

Maybe, maybe someone did not tell you, but I'm here to tell you, you are freaking amazing.

You have such a beautiful light, beautiful energy inside of you.

Don't let it stay there, don't hide it, don't hoard it, share it.

Share it out with the world.

But again, that could be hard and difficult at times.

A lot of times our inner mindset, those energy leaks, those internal energy leaks, can't

leave us feeling drained, exhausted and beats us up.

It's this internal bully that is bullying us.

So how can you be gentle with you today?

No criticism, no judgment, just a simple question.

Now gentle doesn't mean passive, just so we're clear on that.

Gentle doesn't mean passive.

It means responsive instead of reactive, responsive instead of reactive.

So oh, I stubbed my toe instead of cursing and swearing, I go, I take a waltz.

Mmm, that hurts.

Now a reactive is still a responsive type of response, but it's one that usually has

no thought before.

It just poof, there it is, boom, I'm pissed off, boom, I stubbed my toe and I'm angry

and frustrated.

It hurts.

It happens to all of us, don't get me wrong.

So one of the biggest things I feel we can do to be kind and gentle to ourselves and

to others is to respond as and take some time, take a breath and then respond.

And so what would that look like?

Maybe it's, hey, before I beat myself up, I'm going to take a breath, not for myself

some love.

And then hopefully not beat myself up.

Or I'm going to take a break and pause and go make a cup of coffee and enjoy it.

I'm going to sit down and enjoy this meal without my phone right there and not going

to be on it.

Or maybe it's, you know, how I'm going to be gentle with myself today is how I'm going

to get these things checked off my list, I'm going to call it a day and that's good.

And I'm going to be okay with that.

This questions helps soften your nervousness and the question of what would it look like

to be gentle with yourself today.

It helps soften your nervous system without lowering the standards because I get it.

We have standards.

We have things that we need to do and want to do and things to meet, but we can still

show love, we can still show grace, we can still have stress in our life, but the stress

doesn't have to eat away at us and kill us.

It doesn't have to lead us to burning out.

You know what I mean?

So just throw that out there.

What would it look like to be gentle with yourself today?

Give it some thought and then take action on it because you are worth it.

You are amazing, you are worthy, you are enough just the way you are.

Go shine your beautiful light.

Alright, that's all I have for today.

Thank you so much for hopping in, joining me, keeping a new Keep Shining Bright, don't

forget to hit, I was going to say record, let's try that, don't forget to hit, oh my gosh,

now it's all gone.

Well this is a fun way to finish it up, so I got so involved, now it's just poof gone.

Hey follow, subscribe, those are the words I was looking for, don't forget to hit

follow, subscribe and go have an amazing day, hey I'm human, am I going to beat myself

up for it?

I'm going to be gentle because, hey I'm human, it's how we learn and grow, we all make

mistakes.

Alright, go have an awesome day.

Until next time, I'll catch you later.