Game 1: The Right Side of the Bed ( or Start Your Day with a Laugh Track)
“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.” T ECUMSEH , NATIVE AMERICAN LEADER
Okay, so this game involves music and a couple of easy movements that I call calisthenics for big- ass manifesting. Using the first five minutes of your day to feel good is like programming a destination into your GPS, like fixing your eye on the spot where you want your golf ball to land. For the sake of experimentation, it’s only necessary to do the little ritual I’m about to impart for the next three days. But my hope is you’ll dig it enough to include it as a treasured part of your morning routine along with brushing your teeth and showering. Here’s how it works: LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” is now the theme song for your morning.
Watch it on YouTube if you haven’t already. For the next three days, for a mere five minutes (c’mon, how easy it that?) you’re going to throw the following feel- good party in your brain:
1. Listen to one or more of these songs, all easily accessible on your phone (maybe it could be your alarm?) or your computer:
“Happy” by Pharrell Williams “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong “Best Day of My Life” by American Authors “I Believe I Can Fly” by R. Kelly “Three Little Birds” by Bob Marley “Celebration” by Kool and the Gang “I Feel Good” by James Brown “I Gotta Feeling” by Black Eyed Peas 2. Perform the following series of movements: Pump your fist in the air with complete glee. Repeat five times. Pretend you’re a Latin American soccer player who just made a goal. In the finals. When the score was tied. Do the Harlem Shuffle on your way to the bathroom in the morning. Before you brush your teeth. Go outside and stretch your arms wide to salute the sun that comes up every day without you having to pay for it or ask it to. Dancing to Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” while brushing my teeth has literally resculpted my brain and lowered my stress level. As I mentioned earlier, dancing and pumping my fists in the air is better than Breaking Bad’ s Walter White at furnishing me with a constant supply of happy drugs: dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin, to name just a few.
Game 2: Ask for Your Own Personal Cosmic Joke
Put in an order with the FP for something that will amuse you, something that makes you laugh out loud. Intend to be shown this “inside joke” within the next 72 hours, during the time frame of this experiment.
Game 3: PDA for Your Mind
For the next three days, make a commitment to be grateful for everything that happens. And not just for things like, say, the turkey handprint your daughter brings home from school or your neighbor’s blooming hydrangeas. If your mayonnaise jar falls out of the fridge while you’re looking for the leftover chicken fried rice, say “Thank you!” If the po- po notices you’re running late to work and gives you a citation to prove it, say thanks!
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