It’s just so easy!

 “If you’re not in awe every moment of your life, you’re just not paying attention.”–Cortland Dahl

Happy best-Friday of your life!

So I’m off on another girlfriend’s getaway, but, before I go, I wanted to say howdy to all my besties here on the blog.

And to rave once again about my long-standing love affair with ServiceSpace.

I’ve written about this all-volunteer, concensus-defying organization before. I went with them to Gandhi’s ashram a couple years ago. The 222 Foundation chose them as its recipient in 2022. And I’ve participated in several of their amazing, life-changing pods.

Most recently, I tuned into their Born to Flourish pod. And because I’m a gusher and LOVE to ”share my toys,” as I like to say, here are just a couple quick things I picked up:

The pod was built around the scientific work of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin. Since I’m often described as “woo-woo through and through,” it’s rewarding to discover research the proves what I like to gush about.

For example, joy is our natural state. In an experiment with babies, neuroscientist Richie Davidson, director of the Center for Healthy Minds, found that 100 percent of little humans who had yet to master “the ways of the world” chose love. Every single one.

Other experiments proved that one person can change an energy field, that mindfulness doesn’t take years of living in an ashram and because love, connection and kindness IS our natural state, it only requires a tiny space for something truer to come through.

First step is recognizing that thoughts are interpretations, not objective truth. Thanks to a lifetime of training our minds to scan for what’s going wrong, we tend to believe what our eyes show us. But it’s always interpretation. And there’s always something greater going on.

Have a great weekend, friends! I love you to the moon and back.

#222 Forever!

Pam Grout is the author of 22 books including E-Squared, Thank & Grow Rich , The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)and her latest, The Ego’s Playbook.