Gentle reminder: You don’t need to fight the old in order to do things differently. Simply put your energy into doing things in a new way. Lovingly release what’s no longer serving you and turn towards what is.
Just as pilots plot their routes before take-off and have a GPS to help them navigate if the weather turns, you too can plot a way out of your bad mood before it happens. Create a bad mood tool box that contains a list of things you can run through to help you navigate your way out of the bad mood cloud and back to enjoying life. This bad mood tool box will be your guide back to inner peace.
This practice is a game changer. Creating a place where you can look at things that bring you joy is a simple and effective way to bring your focus out of the things that are wrong and into all the things that are going right. To create a “good things” space in your phone simply create an album in photos and label it “good things.” For a week, take a picture or video of things that make you feel good and put them into the good things album. These good things can be anything from pizza and puppies to spring flowers, a video of your favorite candle burning, or your favorite TV show’s theme song. After the week, occasionally update your good things album. If, for instance, you’re lying in bed after an awesome dinner with your friends and you happen to have a picture from the evening, add it to the album.
Creating a good things space has a few benefits. For one, when you’re making the album, you’re training your brain to focus on and put more time and energy into the good things in your life. This will help change your inner dialogue to one that focuses on all the things going right for you. Resulting in a positive impact on your overall quality and satisfaction of life. Second, when you find yourself in a bad mood, struggling to do hard things, or feeling like everything is going wrong you can look at the pictures to remind yourself of all the things you love in your life. Focusing on these joyful moments will remind you of how you were feeling when you experienced them. Have you ever looked back on a time you were embarrassed and cringed? You can do the same thing with positive memories. You can look back on happy moments and feel as happy as if they had just happened. The good things space reminds you, even though things can get tough, that there are aspects of your life that you love. The good things album is a great tool to have at the ready when you’re in a bad mood, in a funk you want to get out of, or doing hard things. For more tips on how to create a bad mood tool box, click here. And remember, you got this.
It’s a great day to focus on all the things going right in your life ☀️ Your mind likes to draw your focus to what’s wrong/to do lists/what’s missing but you can change this. Focus on the good. Ruminate on the good. Think about everything …
Do you feel like you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place? Is something causing you frustration and you don’t know what to do about it? Have you searched and thought but still can’t find the right answer? If you thought through every angle, …
Let it hurt, then let it heal.
There’s nothing wrong with feeling bad, with being unhappy, or with anger. When you have negative emotions feel them. Don’t push them away, don’t pretend they aren’t there. Acknowledge them, bring awareness to what you’re feeling, get curious as to why you’re feeling the way that you do.
Healing happens through feeling. By refusing to acknowledge bad feelings, you’ll become stuck in the negativity.
Inner peace doesn’t mean you never feel bad. Inner peace allows you to feel the bad, to process the bad, to release the bad, and to move on. The more practice you have with processing your emotions, the easier it will be for you to return to inner peace. The more you heal, the more you can let go.
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There is a period, the time of which is different for everyone, where a gap exists between knowing better and doing better. It is when you have taken the step of becoming self-aware of what habits are no longer serving you, or are hindering you from enjoying your life, however you find yourself continuing to fall into the same unhealthy patterns nonetheless.
Our tendency to fall back into what’s familiar, even if it’s not what’s best for us is why it’s imperative to make healthy coping habits part of your daily routine. Don’t solely keep healthy habits in your back pocket for when life gets hard. Practice them and strengthen them. This will reinforce the positive consequences of their use. The more practice you have, the more familiar these habits will become. The more familiar the healthy habit, especially when times get rough, the more likely you will turn to it instead of a destructive habit.
This dish is seriously delicious! It’s hands down my favorite salad I’ve ever made. It’s simple and easy to throw together for a quick lunch and is perfect to meal prep. It’ll keep you full and satisfied plus it gets those greens in! Brussel sprouts are high in fiber and antioxidants. They help protect against cancer and help with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, and diabetes. This salad will leave you feeling your best!
We go out of the way for the people we love. It’s often how we show them we love and support them. We make extravagant homemade dinners for our families, we pick out the perfect presents for our friends, we buy bagels for our meetings on the way to work. We show up for others when they are having a hard time.
Have you ever thought of doing something nice for yourself like draw a fancy bath, light candles, or buy yourself flowers and then decided not to go through the trouble of doing it? Next time, when something sounds nice but you’re about the come to the conclusion that it’ll be too much of a hassle, do it anyway. Take the long way home because the scenery is better, make a yummy home cooked meal even if you’re the only person eating it, set up a pile of blankets to read by the fire even though you’re going to have to clean it up later. Show yourself the same love and support you provide others.
I’m not telling you to make more work for yourself when you’re exhausted but if you have the time and the energy, go out of your way for yourself.
You’re worth the extra effort. And by taking the extra time you’re signifying to your subconscious and the universe that you deserve this level of care. This will help bring about more things in your life that you want.
Challenge: make a list of the times you have felt genuinely happy or at peace. This list will remind you that your happiness never came from things looking seemingly perfect on the outside. Your happiness came from being present and open and connected to yourself …
