TS 092 – How to Cultivate Hope to Drive Your Life Forward

Never has there been a more important time, in my lifetime, than 2020 to cultivate hope. A pandemic, racial anxiety, quarantining… it can all be a little overwhelming, to say the least! So how do we go about pushing forward and envisioning a better future for ourselves in the midst of all this challenge? How do we go about seeing it better, so that we can make it better? It all starts… with hope. Today’s conversation is all about cultivating hope to drive our lives forward. We’ll dive deep into understanding how without hope, we feel powerless to create change in our lives. Without hope, we lack motivation to move forward, to be resilient, to push through adversity to reach our goals. When we lack hope, we stay stuck in fear, constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, expecting the worst to happen. Hope allows us to tolerate failures and disappointments to keep moving forward in creating the life, and the world, that we want. When we learn to cultivate hope, which is a learned behavior, not simply an emotion, we stay motivated in taking action towards what we want in life. We’ll not only talk about hope, but also do Tapping to cultivate hope! !!! start_highlights The definition of hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. It is about allowing yourself to dream. Hope is about having the ability to influence and direct your future in the direction you want. The opposite of feeling powerlessness. In order to be hopeful and move toward a future we want, we have to be flexible and be able to tolerate failure and disappointment, recognizing that this does not define us as who we are. Hope is a learned behavior and we need to recognize that this learned experience is one we can work through, addressing safety first to cultivate hope and create an empowering future. Real hope carries with it confidence and desire and faith and anticipation and aspiration…important emotions that allow us to drive ourselves forward. Tapping will help lower the intensity of past events and traumas that support a belief that we can’t be hopeful, and it also opens us up to create new experiences and cultivate new beliefs to overpower the negative beliefs and move you forward in a positive direction. start_timestamps Episode Start: 00:01:17 About the Tapping Solution App: 00:01:54 Definition of Hope: 00:05:08 Why we want to cultivate hope: 00:08:22 Hope is a learned behavior: 00:13:28 Hope is also about an emotion under the words: 00:16:00 Can you feel hopeful and visualize an empowering future?: 00:17:30 How our amygdala helps us feel safe and how tapping helps: 00:18:18 Tapping Session on Hope: 00:24:55 Intro Intensity Rating: 00:25:01 End of Tapping Intensity Rating: 00:33:56 Closing: 00:13:48 start_transcript Alex Ortner: Hey guys, Alex here with the Tapping Solution Podcast and the Tapping Solution App. I am so excited to be here with you today because for the very first time I’m not only recording this via audio, I’m actually recording the video as well, which I’m personally excited about. I’m an expressive person, I like to be able to show my emotions, I am an emotional person. And so, I’m excited to actually record it via video so we can share this on YouTube and Facebook and all the other social media platforms. So, if you’re watching me here via video, thank you, you can see my mic. And, if you’re listening to your audio like normally, thank you so much for listening in and tuning in to our tapping solution podcast. Hopefully all of you, whether you’re listening via audio or video, that you’ve gone and downloaded our tapping solution app because our tapping solution app is absolutely life-changing. We’ve had over two million listens to the tapping meditations. You can go download it for free in the App Store or Google Play. Make sure you go do that. I might actually share a little special surprise about the app at the end of this podcast so stay tuned for that. I’m excited for that. So, today’s conv