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7 Good Minutes: This Week
Weekending August 2, 2025
Sunday: July 27, 2025
Thought for the Day:
The space between stimulus and response is where your power lives, and your breath is the key that unlocks that space.
Episode Overview
This episode reveals how one intentional breath can serve as your reset button, transforming overwhelming moments into opportunities for calm and clarity.
It explores the profound difference between unconscious breathing and the centering breath—a conscious practice that activates your parasympathetic nervous system and creates a bridge between chaos and peace.
Key Takeaways:
• Your breath is a powerful tool for nervous system regulation that sends direct messages to your brain about safety and calm, changing your body's chemistry instantly.
• The centering breath works anywhere, anytime—you don't need special conditions, just conscious intention to pause and breathe deeply from your belly.
• Starting with just three intentional breaths per day can create lasting change, helping you respond rather than react and move through life with greater presence.
Transform your entire day with something you already do 20,000 times—discover how one conscious breath can be your pathway back to peace.
Monday: July 28, 2025
Thought for the Day:
The past is a place of reference, not residence, and your power to create lives only in the present moment.
Episode Overview
This episode explores the liberating power of releasing yesterday's burdens to fully embrace today's possibilities.
It reveals how carrying the weight of past mistakes, regrets, and missed opportunities steals energy from creating a meaningful present and future, offering practical wisdom for letting go without forgetting the valuable lessons learned.
Key Takeaways:
• Yesterday exists only in memory and has no power except what you give it—every moment spent reliving the past is stolen from what could be created now.
• Letting go doesn't mean forgetting or pretending things didn't matter; it means integrating lessons without carrying the emotional weight that prevents new growth.
• Like a plant shedding old leaves to make room for new growth, releasing past burdens frees up energy to pursue dreams, invest in relationships, and become who you're meant to be.
Stop letting yesterday's story rob you of today's blank page—discover how to honor your past while stepping into the lightness and possibility of this moment.
Tuesday: July 29, 2025
Thought for the Day:
What you seek is seeking you, but first you must train your eyes to recognize it when it appears.
Episode Overview
This episode reveals how your mind acts like a search engine, finding evidence to support whatever it's been trained to look for—and shows you how to retrain it to naturally notice opportunities, beauty, and possibilities instead of just problems.
It explores the neuroscience of attention and provides practical tools for rewiring your brain to see the abundance that's already surrounding you.
Key Takeaways:
• Your brain's neuroplasticity means you can literally rewire neural pathways by consciously choosing to look for good, strengthening positive attention patterns with each intentional redirect.
• What you focus on expands—not through magic, but because training your attention to notice good things reveals the opportunities, beauty, and kindness that were always there waiting to be seen.
• Simple daily practices like writing down three good things, noticing specific moments of gratitude, and looking for beauty in ordinary moments can transform your entire worldview.
Stop letting your mind default to problem-finding mode—discover how to train your attention to spot the abundance, opportunities, and joy that surround you every day.
Wednesday: July 30, 2025
Thought for the Day:
Peace is not the absence of storms in your life, but the presence of stillness within you while the storms pass.
Episode Overview
This episode reveals that calm isn't something that happens when life gets easier—it's a skill you can develop and a choice you can make in any situation.
It explores how to find your center amidst chaos by understanding that your inner state doesn't have to mirror your outer circumstances, offering practical tools for cultivating peace regardless of what storms are raging around you.
Key Takeaways:
• Calm people aren't those with calm lives, but those who've learned to remain centered within whatever life brings—like a tree that bends with the wind while staying rooted deep in the earth.
• The space between stimulus and response is where your power lives—practicing the pause and choosing how to respond rather than react is the foundation of lasting peace.
• Your breath is your most reliable pathway to calm, instantly signaling your nervous system that you're safe and activating your body's natural rest and restore functions.
Stop waiting for perfect conditions to feel peaceful—discover how to choose calm in any moment and develop the unshakeable inner stability that no external storm can disturb.
Thursday: July 31, 2025
Thought for the Day:
The roots you tend in the quiet morning hours become the strength that holds you steady when the winds of the day begin to blow.
Episode Overview
This episode explores the sacred opportunity that exists in those first few moments after waking, when your mind is soft and the world hasn't yet demanded your attention.
It reveals how to create a simple morning grounding practice that anchors you in calm, clarity, and intention, setting a foundation of centeredness that supports everything else you'll do throughout your day.
Key Takeaways:
• Grounding is like tending to your roots—creating stability through simple practices like conscious breathing, mindful movement, and feeling your connection to your body and surroundings.
• Your morning ritual doesn't need to be complex or time-consuming; even feeling your feet on the floor, taking three intentional breaths, or setting a gentle intention can profoundly shift your entire day.
• Starting from a grounded place helps you respond rather than react to whatever comes your way, carrying with you a sense of solid ground no matter what storms may arise.
Transform your entire day by claiming those precious first moments—discover how a simple morning grounding practice can anchor you in peace and set the foundation for everything that follows.
Friday: August 1, 2025
Thought for the Day:
The thought you choose to carry becomes the lens through which you see the world, and the world you see becomes the life you live.
Episode Overview
This episode explores the transformative power of choosing one intentional thought each morning to carry throughout your day—a lighthouse that can guide you through any storm and anchor you in what matters most.
It reveals how this simple practice can shift your perspective, lift your spirit, and create coherence in a world that floods us with thousands of scattered thoughts daily.
Key Takeaways:
• Among the 60,000-80,000 thoughts you have each day, choosing one powerful, intentional thought to focus on gives your mind a home base to return to whenever life feels overwhelming or unclear.
• Your chosen thought becomes like a lighthouse—a steady beacon you can return to again and again, transforming ordinary moments into opportunities for growth and peace.
• The practice isn't about controlling all your thoughts or forced positivity, but about giving your consciousness a thread that weaves through your day, connecting scattered moments with meaning and direction.
Stop letting random thoughts control your day—discover how choosing and carrying one transformative thought can become your pathway to greater peace, purpose, and presence from morning until night.
Saturday: August 2, 2025
Thought for the Day:
The quality of your morning's first moments becomes the foundation upon which your entire day is built—choose to build from peace rather than pressure.
Episode Overview
This episode explores the sacred threshold between sleep and full wakefulness, revealing how to create a protective buffer in those precious first moments of your day.
It shows how claiming this space for yourself—before phones, news, or the world's demands rush in—sets an intentional, peaceful tone that ripples through everything that follows.
Key Takeaways:
• How you transition from sleep to wakefulness sets the energetic tone for your entire day—rushing immediately into external demands hands over your sovereignty before you've remembered who you are.
• Creating even five minutes of sacred morning space isn't about duration but quality of presence—time to breathe, set intentions, or simply arrive fully in the present moment.
• Beginning from your own center rather than external pressures allows you to respond instead of react, act from intention rather than impulse, and bring fullness rather than depletion to your day.
Stop giving away your most precious moments to the world's urgencies—discover how protecting those first sacred minutes of morning can transform your entire relationship with each new day.
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Welp, that’s all for this edition of This Week. Until next time…
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Clyde Lee Dennis
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