✨ Glimmers ✨ · Inspired Life, Empowered Being

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✨ Glimmers ✨

There's so much talk about "triggers" which are the things that activate stress, fear, and shutdown, but what if we focused on "glimmers" for a bit instead?

A “glimmer” is a small moment that sparks a subtle sense of safety, joy, gratitude, or connection. Seeing a text pop up from someone you care about (or better yet, the sincere content of a text), the rain on the roof as you're snuggled under a blanket, the crackle of a fire, a laugh that brings you a sense of joy.

These are micro-moments--they can be easy to miss but so so powerful if we allow ourselves to notice them. :)

These activate our parasympathetic system and they signal "you're safe right now". This is a nice feeling :)

When we become intentional about noticing these we increase our emotional regulation, we build resilience to stress, we strengthen neural pathways for gratitude and joy, we shift attention bias AWAY from threat-scanning, and we improve mood over time. :)

Since our brains typically lean towards scanning for the negative/threats, we need to be intentional about looking out for the glimmers. Neurons that fire together, wire together! :)

POLL: How often do you consciously notice glimmers?

QUESTION: What have been some of the glimmers that you experienced in the past week? :)

✨ Action Step:

For the next 3 days, write down three glimmers each evening.

Multiple times a day / I have a daily gratitude practice that encompasses this

A few times a week

Rarely--I forget

I never thought about it this way/I like to focus on the negative instead

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