Daily Brainstorms

“It’s important that we notice both the presence and absence of emotion”.

Emotions come and go, if we let them. When we focus on a particular emotion, we begin to create thoughts around an event (stories) that created said emotion.

When it’s a positive emotion, we typically see life from a positive perspective. This usually allows for positive actions to be taken, which manifests a positive reality. It really comes down to focus because the same positive efforts can be focused upon when undesirable thoughts or emotions arise. It’s a choice we have when we can become conscious to our thoughts, emotions, and actions.

The cool thing is that emotions are not final and are able to shift. When we can become more aware of when an emotion is absent, we can begin to notice other emotions and make a choice to shift our focus and know change is always with us.

With an understanding of the absence of an emotion, we can then see that there’s always an end to an emotion that’s triggered by thought. A great reminder that nothing is fixed, rather it’s always changing.

And, with change comes a greater sense of freedom in the mind. We must make a constant effort to become conscious of our ability to shift focus and thoughts so that we can see how in control of our reality we really are. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

“Your brain…

weighs 3 pounds and has one hundred thousand miles of blood vessels.

contains more connections that there are stars in the Milky Way.

Is the fattest organ in the human body.

could be suffering this very minute without your having a clue.” @davidperlmutter

Hi! My name is Josh Perry, and I live with 4 brain tumors. Before an open cranial surgery that took 6 hours to remove a massive (almost half my brain) brain tumor, Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for 2 regrowths, and a third diagnosis in 2017, I was never very conscious to the health of my brain and how I could be affecting it one way or another.

This picture was taken right after my original brain surgery in 2010, containing 75 staples and 13 or so stitches. It was the beginning to a new way of life for me that I could never have fathomed taking place. But, who could?

Despite living with 4 brain tumors today, I still live a very “normal” (what’s normal?) life full of BMX, training, studying, speaking, coaching, adventuring, supporting others, and so much more.

Through all my experiences, I’ve learned many things but two of which are my favorite and stand out to me the most. They are: health is internal, not just numbers on a scale or sheet of paper & life is all about perspective and choices.

It took falling and hitting my head one day to finally receive an MRI that revealed a brain tumor was the cause of my suffering for a year prior of my diagnosis. This led me to learn about holistic health (a lot of what I learn comes from Dr Perlmutter’s work) and how choices we make can either help or hurt us.

I chose to take my experiences and become a survivor that is very diligent about being conscious to my choices in life in an effort to protect my brain and overall health, and share all I can with others to support them however I possibly can.

Are you making choices to either manifest health or to change you’re current reality in a more positive way? 💚✌️

-Josh P.

(Day-21) 21-Day Meditation / New Habit Creation Challenge.

“The more we can witness change, directly or experimentally, the less defined we sort of become as a person.”

I’ve always been pretty open to change in my life, both consciously and subconsciously, until the “auto pilot” set in and was revealed in my consciousness.

I had a vision when I was younger to create a life I saw on tv (BMX) and fell in love with. After over a decade living that vision, experiences showed me new passions in and for my life.

These experiences and new passions led me to starting a business sharing my experiences and passions with others in an effort to influence change and empower others to live a life free of pain and sufferings while becoming the healthiest and happiest possible.

The resistance to change that came up with this new choice in direction was because I never slowed down to envision a new life. I also learned I was spreading myself too thin on what I was saying yes to, which wasn’t aligned with my main focus. This is when the negative thoughts and emotions came on.

I’m becoming very self aware of change and how I react to change, which has empowered me to not get lost in meanings of events rather make a choice as to how I want to continue moving forward and if it’s aligned with my goal. I feel this is where I would get lost in the past with defining who I was, based on my past rather than who I am in the moment and strive to become.

I’m grateful for this 21-day challenge and all I’ve learned about myself and continue to learn moving forward. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

(Day-20) 21-Day Meditation / New Habit Creation Challenge

“We’re not training the mind to do something. We’re training it to come to a place of natural rest, where we can see life more clearly.”

Everything we want is already within us and the universe. We just have to align our beliefs and actions for the desired outcomes.

When we can take time to be conscious of our surroundings, body, and breath, we can become conscious to the power we have to shift our focus. This has been super helpful for my emotions and thoughts, as well as the life I envision and am manifesting into my reality.

This past trip to Honolulu, Hawaii was an amazing opportunity to calm the mind and realize all that I’ve been able to accomplish in my life, the lives I’ve impacted, and the ability I have to receive compensation, love, opportunity, and success for doing what I love-helping people realize their power to free themselves of pain and suffering. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

What an amazing @kaizenprocoaching mastermind retreat to Honolulu, Hawaii with even more amazing human beings. It’s crazy how life unfolds and where it takes you.

I’ve been taking massive leaps forward towards my new vision for my life and I’m come across amazing people, opportunities, and experiences. This was one of those but it’s just the beginning and I look forward to the next mastermind in Maui!

The top take-aways from this trip was learning that we’re not all so different in life, you can achieve amazing levels of success when you narrow and specify your focus, and when negative thoughts/emotions come about it typically means I’m out of alignment with my vision. Those are just some of all the great information my brain soaked up from this last week and the ideas this trip has given me.

Thanks @isaacstegman for having me and to all the great supportive people who attended. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

(Day 18) 21-day Meditation / New Habit Creation Challenge

“Where your focus goes, energy flows.

I recently stated using @tonyrobbins 10-minute “priming” exercise to start my day.

Start with radically changing your breath followed by 3 minutes of gratitude, 3 minutes of positive thoughts/prayers for others in your life, and 3 minutes of goals & visualization.

The idea behind it is to “prime” your day of the thoughts and beliefs YOU want, rather than what the world full of noise tells us.

The noise from others limiting beliefs, others experiences, or our own past experiences and beliefs tend to discredit the possibility in our lives.

When we “prime” our conscious mind, we can begin to clear out the noise and take action on what we desire. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

(Day-19) 21-Day Meditation / New Habit Creation Challenge.

“The more that we can actually be in our body, then the more present we are in life.”

This quote gives me a reminder of why focusing on the breath as well as moving my body, whether it be BMX or exercise, helps calm down any negative thoughts and emotions. We are physical beings that tend to get lost in thought, which triggers an emotional response that can either triggers suffering or pleasure.

The TEAR method was introduced to me recently and has helped me shift my internal feelings, that are usually a manifestation of thought, by focusing on new desirable thoughts.

I’ve become great at setting an alarm for undesirable thoughts/emotions, which empowers me to change my internal & external reality. I found myself in the past with these negative thoughts that would trigger an undesirable emotional response, leading to unconscious actions that would manifest a result/realty, one way or another.

We choose our reality because it’s really a manifestation of our thoughts that are tied into emotional responses and actions, whether we’re conscious of it or not. 💚✌️

What would it take to create a new reality?

-Josh P.

(Day-17) 21-day Meditation / New Habit Creation Challenge.

“What are YOU willing to do?”

Change is good. Change is inventible. Change is everywhere and always occurring.

So why do we fight it?

I’m learning that I personally am battling an inner struggle with change due to my feeling like I’ve dedicated half my life to something and I’m giving up on it, and apart of myself, which isn’t the case.

Although this new path I’ve chosen is what I feel 100% passionate about and out of love, it requires a lot of change in the process.

What are you willing to do? is a question I take and look back on my past and can reflect on all the things I was willing to do, put up with, and sacrifice for the life I live today.

Now, with a lot of work in self-reflection, gratitude, doing, and finding my tribe of support, I realize what I am capable of.

We often are scared of change for many reasons and 1 is getting out of our comfort zone. The key is to see all we’ve accomplished and overcome to be alive in this very moment.

Why? Because then we can see how capable we all are of manifesting a life we desire, if we choose to see it that way. 💚✌️

-Josh P.