This is a phrase I have at the top of my head right now, and plan on keeping it there to guide all of my thinking and therefore decisions. If you are applying this how is this changing your life right now? If not, what are you doing to lead your life, other than your busy schedule?

Once upon a time, in India, we had Gurukuls, traditional schools where children learned about life-skills, meditation, community living, mathematics, literature, discourses, the works. They would step out as well-rounded individuals and respected members of society. Then we were forced to become 'civilised' and adopt the modern schooling system where we spend years teaching people to become part of the 'post-industrial revolution' system. We teach them to read, write, calculate, and perform. We spend almost none of our time teaching them what to do with fear, anger, shame, or rejection. There's a focus on marks, grades and competition; it's an eat-or-be-eaten mentality with little scope for compassion. We totally strip children of their instincts to cooperate and collaborate! The lacuna shows up everywhere: relationships collapse under unspoken hurt, addictions born from the urge to escape discomfort, road rage, burnout, workplace conflict, endless cycles of blame, fragmented families, and cutting people out of our lives. People are lonilier than ever today! Most of us were never taught to sit with discomfort. So we explode. Shut down. Numb out. Distract. Or look for someone or something else to fix what we feel. Substance abuse and addiction are at an all-time high! Then we're surprised when adulthood breaks people. Today, that surprise has become acceptance of the pitiful mental health scenario. Emotional regulation is the ability to feel something fully without letting it drive you, without suppression or forced calm, which inevitably shows up as disease in the body. It is pausing before reacting, staying present in hard conversations, hearing feedback without rushing into defence. It is learning to sit with uncertainty and to resolve our inner landscape instead of spiralling. It is respectfully disagreeing without dehumanising or personal attack. This is a foundational skill, and those who develop it make better decisions, build steadier relationships, and stop handing their unhealed patterns down to their kids.

@Ellie Hayes created an app, and it is useful for dealing with difficult emotional moments and it has some fun games for your kids too that could help calm them in difficult moments. Here's an invite to her free page: https://www.skool.com/the-grounded-roots-project-6088/about?ref=1008a060e28f4985a374196645982b52

Next week's LIVE with @Tina Saxena and me will unpack this phrase from Neville Goddard. We are held back by so many things/people from doing our greatest feats. Let's discuss how we can apply this phrase to our lives. Do you have any immediate reactions to this Phrase?