“My mind is my friend”

This was a thought I had while meditating looking at a view of the San Francisco skyline November 6th, 2022. 

It just popped up. About 5 minutes into sitting in my lawn chair with my eyes closed after eating lunch. A smile crept onto my face.

The next thought? 

“My mind gives me energy”

My eyes immediately blew open. 

“Woah”

Then I thought “how rare is that in this world?”

This was never a pursuit of mine to achieve this status. Never the intent. My New Year’s resolution in 2022 was to incorporate tea and meditation into my days. I was rather inconsistent with it until I realized I had been running on E in the gas tank for months back in May. Just doing too much energetic output and not enough energetic input. So that then really caused me to hit the reset button. 

So I just started doing things for myself not as a way to fill up the energy tank but as a way to prevent it from emptying. The end result is the same but its the intent behind the activities that make the difference. 

Summer the routine became more refined but still not consistent. My “morning ingredients” if you will, consisted of movement, sauna, reading, meditating, cold exposure, breakfast, and tea. 

Through the types of books I was reading and meditating, I gained more awareness of self. 

The thing though, was that I wasn’t consistent with reading and meditating. But that awareness was clutch because I now had a new lens to look through. 

I incorporated this routine and ingredients on my family Europe trip in June. It wasn’t until August when I noticed a distinct difference in my mind comparing days where I got my reading and meditation vs days I didn’t. So then I fully committed. 

And the mind took off. Higher levels of awareness, energy, focus, initiative, proactiveness. And it was sustainable. 

In fact, during the toughest part of my whole chiropractic program – where I had to complete 140 outpatient adjustments in 3 months, pass Part 2, 3 and 4 National Chiropractic Board Exams in a simultaneous 10 week stretch while doing school, spending intentful time with family and friends before I moved across the country, and keeping my mind sane – my morale was never higher. 

Why? How?

Because I had changed my perspective, my mindset about the purpose and intent of my morning and how I took care of my mind. 

So much momentum had been generated and continued to be generated day in and day out, that in the middle of that sprint up the summit of my 3 year mountain, my subconscious had the audacity to generate the thought: 

“My mind is my friend” 

So what’s the purpose of this blog? 

To arm you with the tools, perspective, and mindset so that your mind can too be friends with yourself.