Humanity Inspired and why you need to be involved.

What does that even mean?

We want you to get involved with Humanity Inspired. But, what is Humanity Inspired (HI) and why should you be involved? Well, HI is a collaborative effort to explore and find good things around us. Everywhere we turn there is reason to be discouraged, despondent, and overwhelmed. When we started HI, we feared that if we couldn’t find the good in people and places around us, we would be jaded and turn to pessimism. Not acceptable!

We innately seek to be inspired and find good around us. Keith and I dreamed up this idea to seek and manifest the good around us and share, to put goodness out into the world. With so many reports of violence, regression of society, storms, global warming, desolation, and destruction—well, we couldn’t continue that way. We stopped following the news so closely and started looking for what was going right around us.

TLDR

The skinny on what comes next? Science says people are healthier when they have a positive outlook. Keith and I took it as personal mission to find positivity around us and came up with this project. The rest of this post shares our experience, thoughts, and why. We invite you to join our mailing list and get involved in Humanity Inspired.

Science of Positivity

Thoughts Matter

Several years ago, I attended a religious workshop where Hilary Weeks presented about positive thinking. She talked about an experiment she conducted. She got a clicker and started tracking negative thoughts to try and prove a concept she had heard. As she tracked, she felt very overwhelmed and discouraged. Long story short, she made a pivot and decided to start tracking positive thoughts. (Read her blog about her experience.) When I heard her speak, I was going through a particularly difficult challenge at the time, so I did the experiment too, but only focusing on positive thoughts. Sure enough, I found my positivity multiplied. Consequently, it didn’t take long before I no longer needed the tool to track my positive thoughts. They just kept coming out of habit. And with that outlook, I find I’m inspired.

1 or 2, 1 or 2

In our house, we laugh a lot about going to the eye doctor and going through the series of options…is it 1 or 2. Adjust, okay now is it 1 or 2. And the pattern continues on. In life, we can easily look at every event from a positive or negative perspective. Is it 1 or 2, slight adjustment, okay, is it 1 or 2? It’s easy to get ourselves into self-talk feedback loop—positive or negative. Some call it self fulfilling prophecy.

Bad Things Still Happen

When we choose to look for the silver lining, there is a fine line between toxic positivity and choosing to be positive inspite of what is happening. Bad things still happen. I don’t deny that bad things happen or that there are some unruly and evil people in the world. I recognize that they exist, AND I refuse to let my experience in life be controlled by fear of bad experiences or evil people. However, I’d rather look at things through the lens of what went right instead of looking and focusing on the negative. Again, humanity inspired.

Science? Really?

Is there really science that backs logic for positivity? Absolutely! We see more and more of it. There is even a book on Amazon by that actual title that goes into the actual science of changing your brain chemistry to stop negative thought patterns. A quick google search yields a host of articles, YouTube videos, and resources that outline the science behind positive thinking. Such an amazing learning track to seek positivity in our lives, to surround our selves and be humanity inspired.

Hard is Good

No Ceiling

Our brains are powerful. We use our brains to achieve remarkable feats and our brains can limit us. I read and research this topic quite a lot and the key lies in our ability to face and overcome difficulty; increasing our ability to challenge ourselves and break through what we think is the limit. Keith and I spend a great deal of time and money investing in our journey to unlock the secrets of our potential. We are far from achieving that potential, day by day we unlock what the next thing is for us. Our magic formula is CONSISTENCY. Showing up and doing the hard things and manifesting good—humanity inspired.

Choose Your Hard

Hard things are all around us, we can choose our hard. For example, one of the hardest things Keith and I do is rock climb and we love rock climbing for so many reasons. Rock climbing is hard. Not just challenging, but break it all down, strip away all the pretense, get vulnerable, hard. Climbing makes you face the immediate that is right in front of you. You make a conscious choice to put your self into a stressful situation of fight or flight, in a safe way. You learn to calm your mind and do the next thing. This act alone helps us build our resilience and drive to overcome difficulties.

Time on the rock teaches us that often the things we are stressing about can be managed and faced. We learn to keep going. Sometimes rock climbing isn’t fun, sometimes we cry, sometimes we leave skin and blood on the rock. We find that sometimes easy climbs become our nemesis that can take weeks to beat the crux. Most of all we learn about ourselves. We have such clarity of our dreams and goals. 

Hard is Our Why

We can choose to find hard things to do, that bring joy to our lives and the lives of people we know. OR, we can live with the fear—that the world is getting increasingly more difficult to live in. Choose your hard! Here we are, again, doing something hard, being vulnerable by sharing our thoughts, and trying to put good out into the world. This is why we are creating a community through Humanity Inspired. 

Humanity Inspired and you need to be invovled!

If you feel overwhelmed with everything happening in the world. Should you find yourself doom scrolling; take a break and find something going right around you, focus on the good. Get involved. Be part of Humanity Inspired.

Manifest the good around you and let’s be HI together!