What are you feeding your algorithm?

What pops in when you read this? Probably a default to your social media? That's fair as that is what most people think of when they hear the word "algorithm." Staying with this, what have you programmed to your IG or FB algorithm? Is it filled with heart-centered, inspiring and encouraging content? Or fear-based doom?

How do you feel when you "doom scroll" compared to when you watch good news, positivity and heart-centered, real happenings on the planet? They both land in your body, in your nervous sysytem. You have experienced both. What do you and your body prefer? You make the choices that fill your feed. Yes, you do have the power and control to what you see and where you go when you scroll as you have the power to choose what you fill your days, hours and minutes of your daily life with. This is nervous system regulation at it's core , and science-backed reality.

For example, taking this concept and applying it to your day, your life. You make the choices that program your daily algorithm. How do you start your day?

• Do you immediately look at the news and emails? Or do you take time to breathe, wake up and set intention for your day?

• Do you eat a donut and a sugar-filled coffee drink? Or do you take a beat and ask yourself what would help fuel you through your morning?

• Do you get outside each day and just be?

These are examples of habits and practices that nourish your body, mind and spirit that can shift your day, your week, your life. Or they don't. YOU get to choose what you feed yourself each day. From what you put in your body, to what you feed your mind and what you feed your spirit. It all lands in your body and affects your nervous system.

Think this is just "fluffy?" It is actually science. Neuroplasticity. Neuroscientists often summarize this as “neurons that fire together, wire together.” Connections that go unused, on the other hand, tend to weaken over time. Neuroscientists have been unpacking the power of our focused intentional thinking to literally rewire itself, rewire the neurons that were wired in your younger years, or even last week. It is science and it is in your control.

YOU get to choose where you put your thoughts, your energy and your intentions each day. Neuroplasticity is the brain’s lifelong ability to rewire itself in response to experience, learning, and change.Each breath. Each moment. So choose wisely. Chaos-filled content that spirals anxiety or love-filled practices that calm your systems: Body, Mind and Spirit. We each have the opportuntity to make the choices. What a gift!

Does this mean you ignore everything that is not sushine and rainbows? Not at all, you take a moment (or a few moments if you wish) to inform yourself. Acknowledge and move along to other thoughts that are more uplifting and more true for you in this moment. Gratitude is a huge component of the rewiring of your thoughts. Gratitude is more powerful and can over-ride the darker, fear-based thoughts. Try it!

Bringing in this knowing and adapting your thoughts to create peace in your body is a superpower we all have. How will you use it today?