Would it be like to have the life you want? What would it be like to have the workday that you've always dreamed of? Or would it be like to have the relationship with your coworkers or your boss that you have always wanted? Our life and our changes are possible. We can have what we always want, and we can be the person that we always want to be.

We know disengagement (S25 action step) exists.  We have studied why its exists and how to help move us forward to engagement. 

There are prophets and authors and books and passages and podcasts and webinars that we can take to learn and grow and develop and train our minds and train our thoughts and train our thinking and change the way that we are. Do we have to change the person who we are being, or we can just be who we are to be.  Or can we learn a new task or two to help others.  Our philosophy on workplace well-being is one comprised of hundreds of hours of expert conversations on how to move the workplace forward into a better future. 

Going inward helps our outward world. The passages of this book will help you be the change or simple understanding simple techniques, and simple instructions for a better day being in community with those around us is something that we all desire. It fuels us as human beings it nurtures us. It gives us the fuel and the insight and the creativity, to move into the next moment, or the next thought, or the next project. Seeing ourselves and seeing the ones around us differently, in a different light, can be the change.  It can be the pillar of how we create better cultures and environments that support us as individuals and support others to be themselves.

Love is at the center of who we are as human beings. And if we go inwards and deep enough to pull it out and to be the love that we are and let it shine and be vulnerable to offer it to those around us that we might just have somebody accept that and embrace it and commune with us and build the community and the culture that we want. That we've always wanted. That our inner child or inner soul/inner flame wants and has desired and yearned for. It can be the light that we show to others around us. It can be the light that we shine outward.

How do we dive into our inner self that we can't see? How do we dive into the hormones and the chemicals? And the autonomic nervous system and the brain synapses, and our neural wiring? Because those are who we truly are at this time.

It's such a hard thing to see when it's inside. It's hidden in us in the dark parts of our inner soul.  Most of us aren't doctors that can see inside of a body and can study the systems of our anatomy and connectivity and the organs that make us human beings. So, it's easy to understand why we detach from what we don't understand. And most cant visualize it that we can't visualize that because it's the hidden parts of us. And it can be the hidden parts of us that most of us don't want to see.

Most of us don't want to dive into that. We don't understand how to.  Most are not trained for it. We weren't coached, we weren't instructed on how to see and how to dive into who we are. Should that stop us? We can take the guide set in front of us that helps us to understand and to look inside the box of who we are.  To see what the current wiring is and why it was created and how it was formed. And what can our brain processes and synapses do for us? How healthy they are and how are they interconnected? We can start to uncover and unpack who we are.

We can if we take the time if we sit with it.  If we are patient with ourselves. If we're curious with ourselves and nonjudgmental and calm and understanding that it's a process. It may not be something easy to understand today. But it's a process that we can unbox and piece by piece. We can review it and analyze it. Unpack it, nurture it, support it, love it, heal it and then present it to the world. Present it to those that we love. Present it to those in a safe space. Present it to the teachers and the therapist and the coaches and advisors. The mentors, the family, the friends loved ones that we can entrust with our soul and our inner being.  The path to being well is a journey for most of us.

Author and Speaker Gabby Bernstein says this in her book:

“When we honor our suffering we become safe enough to face the dark corners and bring them to light.”

A journey that we can all take if we desire too.  If we love ourselves enough or love others enough to be well, we will take the journey for ourselves.  And take that journey for our friends. The ones that we know have a closed box.  That are scared that are frightful.  That are worried that are anxious. That are unloved.  Feel unworthy. Feel threatened.  Feel unmotivated.  Or that don't love themselves. Enough to see the inner self healed. Enlightened and beautiful enough to be on display for the world to see.  To see the true package that they are and to shine their light for the world! Unpack yours for that person. Be their role model. 

Because in unpacking yours and shining your light, you model it, and you advise them on how they can shine and be perfectly who they are uncaring of the wounds and the path that has gotten them there.   We are all equal. We all bring our own unique self. We all sit as a tribe and as a community of equals. We are all different and unique and diverse in our own way, but are we are equal in the eyes of the higher power that exists beyond our understanding. We should recognize we are equal in the Universe.

Your energetic frequencies are our own unique code.  When we get to a point of being firm and solid and foundation-ally stable and strong, that is when you can be the light.  You can be a pillar.  You can be change because in being you, others will see how stable and firm, and bright you resonate. And you will now be a mentor a and a light for others to come to as they are working on their unpacking and stabilizing and building their unique foundation and getting ready to shine their light to the world.

Start with self so your reflection can help people on their path. There is an interconnectivity of beings that allows us to help each other. But it starts with our inner self and our inner being, starts with our purpose and our passion.  Our light that shines in the dark times. The light that we can't see sometimes.

As you read through this guide, you might read some of the action steps, and starting to think that you have a lot of work ahead of you. Take time to reflect on all that you have come through in your life to get to today. And know that the journey ahead is just the journey ahead. The lighter we are on ourselves, the lighter the journey will feel.  If you get to a point where you need to put the book down, flag your page, and come back the next time you are ready to continue to absorb give yourself grace to do so.  Our mind will need breaks from time to time when leaning into this type of work.  For me, stopping to do a work puzzle or clean something helps to give my brain time to refuel.

Following each chapter, you will see some Action Steps that will further introduce you to content and learning.  It will also give you easy and effective steps to take, right now, at your office or home office.  As well as it will indicate some challenges that you might notice within yourself or teammates.  These are guides to next steps once you realize there is a problem that you would like to work towards changing or making better.

These actions steps are numerous as you will see.  At the end of the book, you will see information on Peak Mind mental well-being technology.  If you want to have a tool that helps you remember and recall these action steps during the millions of moments when they may become necessary, call to get access to the tool today.

As well, I urge you to be mindful (M1 action step) as you read through this guide as you may begin to be triggered or agitated by something.  Most of us have some trigger or pet peeve that can make us feel uncomfortable.  And some environments just don’t allow us to maintain a healthy level of psychological safety. If you find yourself in this state at any time, simply take a moment to become mindful of what you are feeling.  I would ask that you feel the emotion, you transmute any feelings that you no longer want to feel, and you consider how you will work to not feel this way the next time you are faced with a trigger or pet peeve. 

Transmuting energy is simply choosing to allow the feeling to release from your body, or to feel better instead of sitting in that feeling that aggravated you.  This could be a pit in our stomachs, shoulders becoming tense, nervous foot taps or fidgety hands or fingers. 

This is a guide, a step-by-step teaching, on how to work through challenges as they come.  This guide is not intended to make you feel overwhelmed with how much work might need to be done around you or inside of you.  The book may seem insurmountable to some people when they first read it. But if they think about all of life's complexities like a bowl of spaghetti, we can begin to understand how to untangle it.  This guidebook gives us tools, and three to five easy action steps for the challenges that we face at work.  When we get to the next challenge in the spaghetti bowl, or the next challenge in life, we can apply two or three action steps to help overcome in that moment. And it gets us to the next moment easier.

“What was set off?  What are they carrying within that accident?  What caused it?  We’re having incidents every day.  That hit us that quickly.”

- David Garrison, Corporate Coach

At each challenge and point in life, that we may reach a peak or a valley and we've got ways to process that moment and get to the next moment.  When we look back on life, when we look back at all the challenges that we've already overcome, the bowl of spaghetti might be half untangled already.

It's learned practice that we can help start to memorize the behavior, the new learned behavior and the new emotional patterning and behavioral thinking so that each time we come up with that challenge that looks similar. It's we can get through it faster. With less emotional angst with ease and grace and shorten the time to the next moment with less stress upon us.

At some point we will get to a point we look back and the entire bowl of spaghetti is straightened out and we now have newly learned emotional practices that we've built in our lives. So that the angst that we once had, from the insurmountable challenges and stresses that we face in life is no longer and we've come to a place of peace. And then every challenge is so much easier at that point.

If you feel yourself begin to become overwhelmed, please know you are in the same learning and developmental stage as most working adults.  Most adults have not been given the opportunity to become trained in social emotional learning.  Here is your chance with Peak Mind.  And have grace upon yourself during the process. The process may take you days, week, or years.  And that is okay. 

Be gentle with yourself.  Let’s dive in today!

- Dr. Alicia E. Mckoy

Alicia@JoinPeakMind.com

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