Thoughts and Well-being

This is about how our thoughts directly affect our emotional well-being. By cultivating a positive mindset, we can significantly improve our overall health and increase our happiness.

Daily Practices for Positive Thinking

• Begin each day by reflecting on qualities and attributes you genuinely appreciate about yourself.
• Seek out and acknowledge all the things that are going well in your life.
• Focus on the good you perceive in yourself, others, and the environment around you.

Since our thoughts guide us every day, it is important to take control and steer them in a direction that benefits us. Although changing negative thoughts might seem challenging, it is actually within our power. Whenever a negative thought arises, we can consciously shift it to something that feels uplifting.

Sources of Positive Thoughts

We all hold joyful and comforting thoughts about certain aspects of our lives, such as:

• Children
• Pets
• Partner
• Home
• Vacation
• Hobbies

While there are many more sources of positivity, these examples offer a starting point for focusing our thoughts.

Strategies for Managing Negative Thoughts

If you find yourself caught in a negative thought pattern, recall a favorite memory or thought related to one of the areas listed above. Choose something that brings you feelings of love, laughter, or joy. We possess countless positive thoughts, but often overlook them. Use these memories to uplift your mood whenever needed.

Don’t allow all the beautiful and happy memories and experiences that you have stored away in your mind to go to waste. They are there to help you keep a positive outlook, and they are also proof that life is and can be a treasure.

 Empowering Your Own Happiness

It is important not to let anyone, regardless of their identity or influence, take control of your happiness. The responsibility for how you feel about yourself and your life rests solely with you. Only you can truly focus on and nurture your well-being in the most meaningful way.

Maintain a positive outlook regarding who you are, your current circumstances, and the actions you are taking. By affirming your sense of self and purpose, you can shield your mind from negativity and prevent it from affecting your daily thoughts.

Many Blessings to All

Sue

Like Yourself First

 February is a month that is all about love. We all want love of course, it is in most relationships we have. It is everywhere, movies, books, in just everyway we can learn about it. It is almost mandatory if we allow it to be. 

What if we lighten up and just like ourselves first.

Think about the person you spend the most time with. It's not your partner, your best friend, or your parents. It's you. If you lived with a roommate you didn't particularly like, you'd move out. But when that roommate is your own mind, the only way forward is to change the relationship from the inside out.

Liking yourself isn't about narcissism: it's about internal harmony and mental health. We often think it is selfish to care more about ourselves than others but the truth is if we don't feel good about who we are then we can't feel good about anyone or anything else.

Just think how freeing it is to focus on all the good things about who you are and keep the spotlight on all the things you like about yourself.

Liking is Different (and Easier) than "Loving"

• Self-Love often feels like a huge abstract destination.
• Self-Likability is about finding small things you enjoy about your personality, your hobbies, or your humor.

One of the major parts of liking yourself is to stop negative self-talk. It creates such chaos in your head. When we continually find fault with ourselves we simply cannot move forward in a positive way. We are stuck feeling bad about who we are and the fact that we have so many more good, positive qualities gets lost in the unhappy way we are seeing who we are.

The fact is we literally treat ourselves worse than we'd ever treat a friend. Just think about that for a moment, the fact is it is so important for you to stop and really care for the beautiful spirit that is who you are.

Here are a couple of things to do to help yourself feel positive:

• Write down three things you actually like about yourself today.
• Have boundaries for yourself when it concerns other people. Say "no" without regret when the circumstance doesn't feel right to you. It is okay not to follow along with anyone or anything that doesn't feel the way it should for your greater good.

Stop dwelling on what you feel you have done wrong, choices that may not be the best, or situations you may have chosen that didn't end up the way you thought they would. Let go of all the guilt it does not deserve the space in your head.

One thing for sure, you are the only person you are guaranteed to be with forever. Remember you don't have to be perfect to be someone you'd want to hang out with.

Many Blessing to All

Sue

Using Your Thoughts As An Asset

 Asset: a useful or valuable thing, person, or quality.

It seems that life has become an alternate Universe of sorts with the times we are experiencing. It is so important for our well-being that we use our thoughts for our greater good and so that we can navigate these times and come out whole and happy.

It is so imperative that we take our own well-being seriously and using our thoughts in the best possible way is the foundation for this feeling of health and happiness to take hold.

Remember that your thoughts of the past are just snapshots of what was. They only existed for a short time and then you stored them in your vast memory. 

The way to keep the past making your present joyful and happy you must tap into all the memories that help you to feel the best you can feel. There are so many of those if you just allow them to surface. Take the time to remember everything that has worked out for you, everything that made you feel exuberant, everything that has that warm and fuzzy feel about it. You have so many if you would just let them surface and then embrace them.

I know that we are all challenged right now to find the good in things happening so I would encourage you not to allow the outside world to ruin your everyday feeling of joy. Stop bringing into your thoughts anything that would ruin a good feeling you might have. 

By letting anyone else cause you negative thoughts you are giving up your own power. Your thoughts are what drive you forward so don't give your power away but insist on using your thoughts for your own greater good.

What if:

• You concentrated on everything that is right in your life today even if it is something small.
• You concentrated on a solution instead of a problem.
• You showed kindness to just one person.
• You look for something positive to focus on. 
• You only saw yourself in the most positive light.

When you use your thoughts in this way it changes your outlook and your mindset. It steers you in a direction of not only feeling good but of seeing everything in a more positive light.

Never forget it is you who is the asset to the world, it is you who brings only what you can bring as you are unique and one of a kind.

Trust that when you bring more and more positive thoughts and feelings you are changing the way things happen. Be one of the many lights in our world who believe in being the best asset you can be.

Many Blessings to All

Sue

Being Content

 Contentment: a state of happiness and satisfaction

Most of us could really feel good if we used our thoughts in a way that brought us contentment.

If we are continually looking at our lives as if we are lacking in ways that make us unhappy then we make feeling content out of the question.

If we feel we are lacking;

• Money
• Love
• Happiness
• Self Esteem

These are super negative thoughts that bring us down emotionally.

It seems that we would prefer to see what is missing instead of what we would like to have in our lives.

• What if you were to start seeing yourself in a better way?
• What if you were to notice that when you think positive thoughts positive things happen?
• What if you feel worthy of love and affection?

It really is about seeing things in a more positive and uplifting way so that you can create a more positive and uplifting life.

If you always focus on the negative not only will you produce more negative things in your life you will never feel the joy and happiness you seek because  you are not allowing it to be a part of you.

I challenge you all to take the time to use your focus on what is right in your life, to envision and feel what you would like your life to be like, and to know that positive thinking brings positive results.

Many Blessings to All

Sue

Self Worth

 

Feeling good enough has always been a human failing in so many ways. We live our lives comparing ours to everyone else's which really present a problem daily for most of us.

• What if you didn't care if you weren't wealthy?
• What if you didn't care if you fit the general description of everyone else?
• What if you didn't fit into an exact replica of a current trend?

Let's be real here and understand that self worth comes from the inside. It comes from being happy with who you are and where you are and what you have. It comes from not trying to be someone else but being yourself and all that you are.

If we were constantly worried about making tons of money to make us important, or if we were always looking in the mirror and finding fault, or if we were worried that we weren't like everyone else, we are losing all the times we could feel happy and content.

Life is too short to try so hard to be something you are not. Let your true beautiful spirit be the guiding light for you. 

• You know what makes you happy so do plenty of that.
• You know what you want to do so do it.
• You know you are not like anyone else so be yourself.

Here are a few things you can be that would make a huge difference in everyone's daily life especially your own:

• Be kind.
• Be funny.
• Be compassionate.
• Be thoughtful.
• Be happy.       

You will find by being yourself and original you will bring into your life the people you really want to be around.

Many Blessing to All

Sue