Once we understand what expectations do to the mind, the next gentle question becomes,

how do we actually shift our thoughts without

forcing the positivity or the spiritual bypassing or pretending that we're okay when we're really not?

Well, the truth is, is that thought shifting isn't about jumping from fear straight into bliss.

No, real nervous systems don't work like that.

You can't go from everything is falling apart this is awful

and just recognizing what's really going on to oh everything is perfect and beautiful and expect your

body and your mind to actually believe you but what you can move one soft step at a time in psychology

this is sometimes called cognitive reappraisal. But spiritually,

I like to think of it as speaking more gently to reality. Hello, hello, magical friends,

Yomi's. My name is Raquel and welcome to your own magic, a podcast for the creative and the curious soul. And I'm so glad you're here.

Today's episode is going to be a little softer, a little shorter than usual because, well, this is going to be a two episode week.

Because I realize the topic I want to talk about today, I just want to lay out. I don't want to bring in a ton of fluff.

And I know that it won't be a super long episode. So therefore, I might as well also come out

with a Witchy Wednesday style episode this Wednesday. So yeah, just think of this as a gentle

opening of a conversation that will continue together midweek. Anyway, something I

always try to do here and something that feels really important to me is to share what my human

is actually going through in real time and then explore how I'm navigating it through our

understanding of science and psychology and the nervous system.

And so I will, of course, obviously, share through the spiritual lens too.

Because I don't believe in pretending to be perfectly enlightened, right?

I mean, I am a human and we're all humans and you know we got a question those that do

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