I often get ideas for these blogs in the middle of the night. When I wake up, the idea comes to me, and I grab my phone to record my voice in the Notes app. Thank goodness I remembered what it was about because this is what I found when I woke several hours later.

It goes up and down, like to be hard to show about a good stuff or bad stuff with happy stuff for you stuff up and out and if it’s all the same well then not here anymore line beat.

Your guess is as good as mine. I was laughing reading it. Usually, when I do voice-typing, it isn’t that bad, but I didn’t want to wake my husband, so I whispered it. Well, that was a doozy translation.

Anyhoo, here’s the actual idea. haha

An electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) measures the electrical signals generated by the heart and converts them into corresponding wavelengths. Johns Hopkins Medicine defines an electrocardiogram as a test that measures the heart rate, the rhythm of the heartbeats (steady or irregular), and the timing of the electrical impulses as they travel through the different parts of the heart. offering immediate alerts when the wavelengths go beyond or below the necessary threshold.

The heartbeat that appears on an electrocardiogram or a vital signs monitor got me thinking about how much it resembles life when put on a graph. Each life experience plotted on a graph would create up/down markings like those from a heart monitor. Have you ever noticed how listening to a heartbeat creates a calming feeling? It’s not a coincidence. That’s life happening.

 

 

Our lives don’t follow a smooth, straight line, either.

We have good days and bad days, happy times and sad times, and easy and hard life experiences. We all go through life with ups and downs, but it all means the same thing—that we are alive.

So, how much of our life are we living?

How many life beats (going up and down) show how much we work at keeping the lines going up more than down?

Life is complex, with numerous moving parts to manage. As we age, our experiences become more complex because we view life through the lens of our past experiences. We judge based on what we learned as a kid, and if we aren’t aware of doing it, it could get worse as we age, where we turn into arrogant jerks who think we’re better than others. When that happens, we can alienate good people because of prejudices.

Just like our hearts can beat faster when we exert ourselves, we can pump up our lives to beat faster simply by showing up and taking action toward a happy life.

We can do that by being present and living in the moment.

Living in the present.

I know how tough it can be to focus on living intentionally in the present moment. We are so susceptible to sliding backward, going up and down, reliving past events.

Today, while driving on a two-lane road, another car swerved into my lane in front of me without looking, forcing me to blow the horn. I got pretty upset by it. I kept driving, thinking what a jerk that person was. Then I caught my thoughts and realized I wasn’t living my life on a happy beat, I allowed that situation to take over my present moment and cause that line to dip down low into an angry state I didn’t want or like at all.

I quickly changed my thinking to something more positive, which served me better, and I could feel the line rising higher and higher, keeping myself from falling back down again.

 

 

Hey, it can be challenging to maintain those high lines (standards) all the time. Overcoming all the negative past influences that have shaped our personality and mindset requires a powerful mind. But it’s possible. Even though we can’t control other people or every situation, we can control how we feel about it. That is something I had to face and work on, but it does get easier to bring ourselves past to the present with practice.

Our life force comes from within us.

That means it doesn’t come from outside circumstances or from people with different opinions and ideas of what’s best for us.

We can get into trouble when we allow others to dictate what we think and feel. I was there for years until I realized that I am in control of my life beats – how I want to see my lines go. I want them to go up where there is joy, love, and peace.

Take a moment to reflect on your life. How’s your life “beats” going? Do you feel like they are stable or inconsistent? Drama creates a lot of up and downs. To be happy, sometimes we have to walk away from the drama and live a simpler life.

Here’s the takeaway from this post – we get to decide which way we want our life beats to go. It takes a bit of practice to stay focused in the present moment and regain control, and there might even be some discomfort along with that, as it doesn’t feel comfortable. Trust me, sometimes we have to get uncomfortable to make the necessary changes for a better life.

Thank you for reading this. I’d love to know if you found it helpful. That’s why I’m writing these.

To our life beats,

Francesca

 

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