The Free Miracle Drug Your Brain is Begging For

The Free Miracle Drug Your Brain is Begging For: Unlock the Power of Gratitude for Instant Presence & Peace (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Trapped in the doom loop of regret over the past or anxiety about the future? On this transformative Living Lucky® Podcast episode, Jason Shelfer & Jana Banana Shelfer reveal the ultimate free miracle drug for your brain: gratitude! It's more than a feeling—it literally changes your brain chemistry and shifts your reality.

Unlock a profound personal development truth: "No regret changes the past, no anxiety changes the future. Any gratitude changes the present." Discover how 'should haves' are self-abuse, and inherited worry builds fear walls. These rob your present power; gratitude is the powerful antidote.

Explore the science of gratitude: how it releases feel-good hormones (oxytocin, serotonin) for an upward spiral of positivity. Your emotional state is contagious; gratitude transforms your experience and those around you.

The key insight? "Any amount" of gratitude sparks change. Even with an empty well, one tiny appreciation provides a critical drop. Get practical self-help strategies: ask "What's great about this?" or "How is this serving me?" to instantly shift your mindset from scarcity to abundance.

Ready to break free from regret, worry, and limiting beliefs? Embrace the present moment! Tune in to master this powerful positive thinking tool. Discover how to effortlessly start Living Lucky® by choosing gratitude, one powerful thought at a time.

• How to stop regretting the past?
• How to overcome anxiety about the future?
• Benefits of gratitude on the brain.
• Simple gratitude practices for daily life.
• What are feel-good hormones?
• How does gratitude change your mindset?
• Breaking free from worry and fear.
• The power of being present.
• Why is gratitude so important?
• Self-help techniques for emotional regulation.
• "Can gratitude change your brain?"
• "How does regret affect the past?"
• "Does anxiety change the future?"
• "What are the benefits of practicing gratitude?"
• "How do emotions spread?"
• "How to stop self-c

Transcript

Creating a Life You Crave

Jana Shelfer 0:00

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start Living Lucky®. Good morning. I'm Jana, I'm Jason and we are Living Lucky®. You are too. Give me the quote, baby.

The Power of Gratitude

Jason Shelfer 0:21

No amount of regret changes the past, no amount of anxiety changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. But any amount of gratitude changes the present.

Jana Shelfer 0:33

Gratitude. I often call it the fertilizer of any garden.

Jason Shelfer 0:39

Fertilizer of life.

Jana Shelfer 0:42

However, the way you just phrased that just now, it makes me feel like gratitude is power.

Jason Shelfer 0:47

Gratitude is power and oftentimes, gratitude is that thing that will bring us to the now. Even if we're grateful for something in the past, grateful for something in the future, grateful for something that's coming, it brings us to the. I am grateful for this, now something that's coming.

Jana Shelfer 1:05

It brings us to the. I am grateful for this now, so it brings us into the present.

Jason Shelfer 1:07

Yes, because a lot of times that feeling that we're feeling is happening now, right Like we're bringing it to ourselves right now, and that feeling that we're having is going to impact or influence the next action that we're going to take. So the thoughts that we're having, the feelings that we're having, influences whatever next action that we're going to move towards.

Jana Shelfer 1:27

I feel like gratitude changes our state. So, no matter where we're at, if we can tap into gratitude, then that will affect our thoughts, it affects our actions, it affects our energy and the way we're showing up. I just feel like gratitude is such a. It seems so simple and yet it is so powerful.

Jason Shelfer 1:56

The thing is it's free. It's freaking free and everyone's like it's free. It's not valuable enough for me. Free and everyone's like it's free.

Jana Shelfer 2:07

It's not valuable enough for me, like I want something that's worth more. I often feel like the best things in life are free. Oh, we should make a quote about that that should be the next podcast, right.

Jason Shelfer 2:14

The best things in life are free. Is there a song? I feel like there's a song. Okay, I feel like that's a lyric in someone's song.

Jana Shelfer 2:21

I mean, somebody has said that.

Jason Shelfer 2:23

So when you mentioned that gratitude changes your energy, it also changes our chemistry, like literally our physical chemistry in our bodies, because it affects us physiologically.

Jana Shelfer 2:35

Yes, it starts changing our, it gets into your cells.

Jason Shelfer 2:39

The chemicals our brain releases. It does. No, it does I know.

Jana Shelfer 2:44

I've read all about this and if I tried to tell you exactly the oxytocin and the serotonin and all of those feel good hormones. I'm going to sound like I don't know what I'm talking about, so let's don't go there, Chama.

Jason Shelfer 2:59

I'm not a rocket surgeon.

Breaking the Cycle of Regret

Jana Shelfer 3:01

But it does, the minute that I stop and say, okay, how can I be grateful for this, even when things aren't working for?

Jason Shelfer 3:09

me when they don't seem like they are working out the way I want them.

Jana Shelfer 3:12

When they don't seem like they are working for me, If I can take a moment and find gratitude and literally say how is this serving me?

Jason Shelfer 3:21

What's great about this?

Jana Shelfer 3:22

What is great about this? That's a better question. What is great about this?

Jason Shelfer 3:26

Which will lead you into the how is this serving me?

Jana Shelfer 3:29

Because when you find what's great about this, it will start serving you and you start realizing that the universe is always, always working in your favor.

Jason Shelfer 3:39

And it's powerful Gratitude also gives you everything you need to work with.

Jana Shelfer 3:45

Okay, so read the quote again and let's just dissect this a little bit.

Jason Shelfer 3:49

The quote is no amount of regret changes the past.

Jana Shelfer 3:53

Stop, stop. So, let's go there, because there are times I am very guilty of this where I start looking back and say, oh, I wish I would have done it this way. I wish I would have said this, I wish I would have sent that. Thank you note that I was thinking about sending I wish, I wish, I wish.

Jason Shelfer 4:13

I would say that everyone has a tendency to ruminate.

Jana Shelfer 4:18

However, I'm just beating myself up when I do that, and there is something inside Jana. Listen to me talking about myself in third person but there is something about Jana that is hearing me say I wish I would have done it differently, and it almost, in a way, is telling my soul that the way I showed up was not enough. The word enough.

Jason Shelfer 4:46

Yeah. So everyone does this. Everyone replays in their mind, ruminates and says okay, how might I have done it differently? However, they don't say how might I have done it differently. They say they don't say how might I have done it differently. They say I wish that I had. I should have. I want to go back and, and the truth is, we can't go back and I was supposed to yeah. So all these things about the ruminating, so we have all this regret about how we should have done something.

Jana Shelfer 5:19

Which, if you just even listen to the language.

Jason Shelfer 5:22

Right.

Jana Shelfer 5:22

That is a big.

Jason Shelfer 5:23

It's abusive.

Jana Shelfer 5:25

Warning sign.

Jason Shelfer 5:26

So it's abusive. It forms regret in your mind and then it says you're not enough, and all this stuff.

Jana Shelfer 5:33

It takes away from you. It's being abusive to yourself. Yes.

Jason Shelfer 5:36

It takes away. So the key there is oh my God, I've never considered myself an abuser. The key is just catch the thought. Oh, I'm so embarrassed. So just catch the thought and then say okay, let's reframe it and say we can go back to our questions about what did I do well? So now we say now we find gratitude.

Jana Shelfer 5:58

If you ever need help reframing, reach out to Jason. He may be the king of the reframe.

Jason Shelfer 6:04

So then we just say what did I do? Well, that's a lead into gratitude, right?

Jana Shelfer 6:09

Oh my gosh, okay. So what's the next sentence? The?

Overcoming Anxiety About the Future

Jason Shelfer 6:11

next part is no amount of anxiety changes the future. Because we worry about so much. I think I learned this from my mom. And here's the thing Because we worry about so much.

Jana Shelfer 6:19

I think I learned this from my mom, and here's the thing. I'm not putting her down because I feel like she does it out of love.

Jason Shelfer 6:27

Right and protection.

Jana Shelfer 6:28

And protection, and she just wants the best for her kids and her family. However, I have started to do this. It feels especially as I get older.

Jason Shelfer 6:42

I found myself worrying about my health, and we do this out of love and protection for ourselves, when we can start saying, okay, how do I love myself enough to take a chance, how do I protect myself enough to not suffer regret in the future? Yes, yes, so and that's so, there's different light bulb moments.

Jana Shelfer 7:05

There's different reframes, as you're listening.

Jason Shelfer 7:08

Yeah, there's different reframes, because what happens is we get taught that this is the way to love, this is the way to protect, this is the way for safety.

Jana Shelfer 7:19

Yeah, no, I feel okay. So along those lines, you know, my mom has always been a worry wart. In fact, she would probably call herself a worry wart.

Jason Shelfer 7:28

Oh, I'm such a worry wart.

Jana Shelfer 7:30

Yes, just like that.

Jason Shelfer 7:31

And when you say I am, you are.

Jana Shelfer 7:33

And when you say I am, and also so growing up under that. There's probably something in my subconscious mind that has learned that's the way you love.

Jason Shelfer 7:47

My grandmother used to say I worry, so nothing happens which is weird. That's a limiting belief right there, because she would worry about everything and it became like almost a joke of the family. Don't worry, because Mimi's worrying about it. And the problem, though, is that the more Mimi worries and brings that feeling everybody can feel it, yeah, and she also teaches you that somebody needs to be doing the worrying.

Jana Shelfer 8:15

And she also. It's inadvertently teaching you to be scared.

Jason Shelfer 8:19

Yes. And she's building a that there's something to worry about.

Jana Shelfer 8:22

A fear wall.

Jason Shelfer 8:23

Yeah.

Jana Shelfer 8:24

A fear wall.

Jason Shelfer 8:25

It's crazy. Yeah, we really do create our reality when what we could be doing is teaching about gratitude. So Papa and Mimi, both also were very focused in on gratitude. They were so grateful for so many things.

Jana Shelfer 8:43

Including Mimi's worry.

Jason Shelfer 8:45

Right. So that's another thing. I think a lot of times we need to start saying, okay, well, how can I lessen some of these things that make me feel anxious, make me feel like some of the like? It's nothing wrong with feeling these feelings, it's just examining the thought and getting curious around it.

Jana Shelfer 9:03

And also letting it go, because you know what we feel is contagious to those around us.

Jason Shelfer 9:09

That's so big. If someone is feeling stressed out out and it's passed down to generation and generation and generation like.

Jana Shelfer 9:18

that's how I learned to love is to worry about people, and that's that's a limiting belief when we could just love fully and connect deeper and know that, no matter what happens, our loved ones will be able to handle it. We have to trust that right.

Jason Shelfer 9:36

Because we're strong, capable survivors and thrivers.

Jana Shelfer 9:40

And we've gotten this far.

Jason Shelfer 9:41

We ain't going to stop here.

Jana Shelfer 9:43

Okay, so then the last part of this sentence.

Gratitude Changes Your Present

Jason Shelfer 9:47

So I'm going to start from the beginning, okay, so no amount of regret changes the past, no amount of anxiety changes the future. But any amount of gratitude changes the present. I love this Any amount so much, because if you feel like you have absolutely nothing, yes, if you feel like you are empty, the well is dry. Find something to be grateful for. Now you have a morsel of moistness to drink from.

Jana Shelfer 10:19

You had to throw in the word moistness.

Jason Shelfer 10:21

I love the word moist.

Jana Shelfer 10:22

I am so grateful for your wisdom. Thank you for sharing. I appreciate that. Thank you for being here. Have a great day.

Jason Shelfer 10:30

Keep Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer 10:31

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