Calling my toddler like brain out.....

Our primitive brain can really get in the way of things. Yes, I know it is here to protect us. The whole fight, flight, or freeze was extremely important back in the cave days. Or maybe, when food was scarce, and we needed to find shelter for the night. Now, I refer to my primal brain as the toddler, it can act like a very childlike Janie. The toddler in me did not do the weights. It is not like the fact that it takes me a little time, just a little, which is almost laughable. I think I might spend a full ten minutes lol. I know, it is because my primal brain wants to be comfortable and wants to go have another cup of coffee and scroll on Pinterest for new ideas or check on Instagram. I am finding myself calling my brain out and saying why do you do this? You know that I have committed to 3 days a week of light weight lifting to prevent osteoporosis and I like that my arms are getting more toned. I have found myself thinking more in the result column instead of the process column. That seems to be helping with this toddler brain. I was encouraged by the book Atomic Habit, when author James Clear said focus on your process instead of the goal. I tried and it has worked somewhat but I have found that if I spend time thinking about the results that I want has helped me tremendously. For instance, you have your to do list and it has clean kitchen floor and vacuum living room. I might find my brain finding every excuse that I should do instead of what I was intended to do. I do love a clean environment. I do love and organized home. This does seem to help. Not 100% of the time but most often.

Having our prefrontal cortex to reason with our little “toddler brain” is the only way out. Unfortunately, we need to be conscious of what we should be doing. We tend to be on automatic and then realize that we just wasted an hour on Instagram scrolling and did not do the list we had intended to accomplish. We might even find that we are out of time and need to move on. Then, by evening, what do we find ourselves doing? Beating ourselves up for not doing what we intended to do. So, pay attention to that “toddler” and reason with it and let them know we will scroll once our chores are done!

I love doing this brain work. Examining our thoughts is so important to get the results that we are looking for. It is amazing to understand that out thoughts create our emotions and our emotions create our actions and the voila, you have your results. Do you like your results? If not, look into your actions? I love it. It is so simple. If we do not like the results we are getting, lets examine the thoughts that could be creating the emotions.

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