You heard WHAT in your head?

You heard WHAT in your head?  

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Eeek, I really did hear that! (As you can see, no self-judgment at all😉)

I’m outing myself as one of the (few?) people who never saw “Mary Poppins.” I don’t know why. (Well, that’s not exactly true. I tend to be fairly oppositional when it comes to popular trends. “Nope, just leave me alone and I’ll see it when I’m ready.”) Still, I was so inundated with the music on regular TV that I can easily repeat words from the movie’s songs as evidenced above.

So, I’m walking around the house early one morning…… and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious just popped into my head.  Not only did it “pop” into my head, it took up residence, repeating itself again, again, and again.

Being a (somewhat) mindful kind of person, I just listened to the word repeat. Noticed my head was beginning to bop back-and-forth, my lips were turning upward (wow, a smile) and, oh, I was beginning to take in deeper breaths, filling up my chest. Huh?

I was happy.  No denying it. I was HAPPY!  Excuse me, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?? What just happened?

A word clearly associated with joy dropped into my brain unbidden (and had the nerve to keep repeating itself.) And, I listened, without (too much) judgment.

I let that joyful word have its way with me and found myself responding with reciprocal joy (not pooh-poohing my experience.) Darn, if I didn’t feel uplifted.

 And you know what, I allowed myself to keep repeating the word as long as I heard it bopping through my mind. No, not exactly true. At some point, for whatever reason, the word became “Scheherazade” (who knows why…) but the internal uplift was still there. (Isn’t life mysterious?)

Has Jan gone bonkers? Nope. My brain, likely for self-care reasons, “popped” out a word that allowed me to indulge in, and experience, some happy energy. That uplift also offered a break and detachment from some thorny issues I was dealing with that day.

Hey, no magic incantations, just begin to notice when pleasant, uplifting, even mysterious words/sounds pop into your mind and allow them to come alive inside you. Paying attention can be very self-empowering and feel good, to boot. Sometimes our subconscious minds offer us gifts when we need them the most. Try it, you might like it…..

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