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Gratitude Unlocked 7/7: Sunday running too fast? Gratitude slows the spin and brings you back to orbit. #SoulfulSunday · Dr. Derek H. Suite MD - The SuiteSpot

• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Hey there! What's up?
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: How are you?
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: What's going on?
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you had a pretty good week.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: I did.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm so grateful to be here with you.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so grateful for the opportunity to speak with you today.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's Slowdown Sunday here on The Sweet Spot.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm your host, I'm Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Derek Sweet.
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  SPEAKER_00: As you know, I'm a board-certified psychiatrist.
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  SPEAKER_00: But more than that, I'm a fellow traveler with you in the universe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Making sense of all that's happening, living a life I love, and wanting you to do the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's Slowdown Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've been talking about gratitude all week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And before we slow everything down today, let's take a quick breath.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let it out very slowly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: And look at what this whole week has shown us about gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every day we touched a different angle of gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: And together it painted this picture most people never see unless they're listening to the sweet spot.
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  SPEAKER_00: We saw that gratitude isn't soft at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's quite stabilizing.
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  SPEAKER_00: We saw that gratitude could sharpen focus, it can strengthen our decision making and help our brain, help our brains trust itself again.
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  SPEAKER_00: We saw that gratitude can interrupt stress and calm the insula, the internal scalp of the brain, so that the body stops sending false alarms.
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  SPEAKER_00: We saw how gratitude could be an anchoring force for the ACC, the error detection cop of the brain, the anterior cingulate cortex.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: Remember that structure?
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  SPEAKER_00: When we practiced gratitude, we learned that the ACC reduces overthinking, hesitation, and second guessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: We saw that gratitude does more than even that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can boost our motivation, it can give us endurance, especially when the week gets long and the mental battery starts to dip.
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  SPEAKER_00: We saw that gratitude doesn't ignore pressure, it reinterprets it, it reframes it, and it turns obstacles into information instead of just intimidation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all week long we practice gratitude in real life terms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tiny moments, small recognitions, little 10-second pauses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember that exercise?
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  SPEAKER_00: The one that shifted your whole system?
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're listening right now and thinking, whoa, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sweet, that's a lot that you just said over there.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just put out a whole lot of things, you're right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why the best thing to do is to go back and listen to these sweet spots over and over again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the messages will layer in and you will get a different message, an even deeper message when you return to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, with all that we just talked about, that's why we need slowdown Sunday today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because after a week of insights, of working through gratitude, of unlocking gratitude, we need a place to land.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got to land a plane to settle, to breathe.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what's bringing us here to the runway.
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  SPEAKER_00: The tarmac of slowdown Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The part of the week where the noise fades, where your orbit settles, and where gratitude becomes less about performance and more about presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's ease into this, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's ease into it a little differently because Sundays, I find that Sundays carry this kind of quiet, restful, reflective quality that the week just doesn't give you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe this week pulled you in a lot of different directions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you've been spinning like a planet trying to find its orbit again.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's slow down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's slow way down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take another deep breath with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then let it out slowly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Always exhale longer than you inhale to get the benefit of deep relaxation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you know that even the universe rests?
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  SPEAKER_00: Stars don't burn at full intensity every second.
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  SPEAKER_00: And galaxies, they just drift at their own pace.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's something quite holy and scientific about slowness at the same time.
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  SPEAKER_00: After all, this is science, soul, and success here at the sweet spot.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we marvel at the universe on Sundays.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you notice, our podcast on Sundays always takes on this very slight astrophysical quality.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_00: We talk about astrophysics.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's the part we don't actually always talk about.
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  SPEAKER_00: The brain, like the universe, craves silence.
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  SPEAKER_00: The brain craves silence the way the cosmos craves equilibrium.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you and I slow down, my friend, something beautiful happens inside of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our universe, our internal universe changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we practice gratitude and we slow down, the default mode network, the DMN, remember that?
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  SPEAKER_00: It starts acting like a quieter universe within.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your parasympathetic nervous system, your insular, your ACC, all of the things we've talked about all week change because you're practicing slowness and gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're slowing down on purpose.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: And in Buddhism, they say it this way: when the mind is still, the universe surrenders all.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trick is to get the mind to be still.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: There's a saying, the body wants movement and the mind wants stillness.
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  SPEAKER_00: The scriptures say it even more elegantly.
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  SPEAKER_00: It literally is a command, it's an imperative in the scriptures to be still.
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  SPEAKER_00: Isn't it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Be still and know I am God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stillness isn't empty, it's full of things we've been too busy to hear.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why it's important on Sundays to take a moment to slow down.
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  SPEAKER_00: And guess what, my friend?
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude works the same way.
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  SPEAKER_00: So maybe today your gratitude is small, it's tiny.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you maybe you're just saying to yourself, I'm not gonna rush right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm actually gonna slow down.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna drink this tea standing up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna eat in front of the television.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna slow down.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna take a moment to breathe, to sit, and to enjoy my meal, to enjoy this conversation, to take it all in, to just go into the backyard and be with nature for 30 seconds, a minute.
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  SPEAKER_00: To turn off the phone, to turn off the TV, and give myself a minute or two to say thank you for the breath in my lungs.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how gratitude ties in to our health.
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  SPEAKER_00: It slows your spin, it quiets the inner noise so you can hear your life again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take another slow breath with me and out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not trying to achieve anything today, just trying to return to yourself so that your vagus nerve can respond instantly, so that your heart rate eases, your breath deepens, your muscles release, and you find strength in stillness, in slowing down.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: And this is why athletes and high performers spend time in this kind of recovery.
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  SPEAKER_00: They know that slowness is strength, not weakness, and astrophysics tells us that galaxies move slowly, not because they're weak, but because they're stable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let that land, let that sink in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Galaxies move slowly, not because they're weak, but because they're stable, held in balance by deeper forces.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's you, my friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude is how you surrender the hurry today.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just gonna slow it down.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're just gonna take it easy, you're gonna take a deep breath, you're gonna let gratitude help you loosen your grip on how things have to be.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: Just be grateful for how they are.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: There's a saying that gratitude can turn denial into acceptance, it can turn chaos into order.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude can let the noise fall away for a second as you're practicing being grateful so that your wisdom and your insights can come to the surface.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's your Sunday reminder: slow down, take a deep breath, trust the quiet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let gratitude soften everything that's gotten tight for you today, yesterday, or this week.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the affirmation.
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  SPEAKER_00: I slow down and I release the rush.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: I allow gratitude to bring me back to my true orbit.
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  SPEAKER_00: If nobody told you this today, you are amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: If nobody told you, you're extraordinary.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're fearfully and wonderfully made.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are a child of the universe, you are created in the image of the Most High.
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  SPEAKER_00: And nothing by any means is going to harm you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm grateful for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm grateful for your journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even for the struggles that you've come through, let's be grateful.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Derek Sweet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening to Slow Down Sunday here on the Sweet Spot as we've been moving in gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: If this helped you, if this helped you recalibrate, share it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you tomorrow.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: You know what that is, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Tomorrow is Making Moves Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: We go at it again.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace and love.