There are so many things happening around us all the time. These can be referred to as external stressors. Life throws us different situations that we have to deal with on a regular basis. If we’re feeling vulnerable or anxious on a particular day, these external events can really affect us.
This leads us to realize that we can’t always control what’s going on outside. The only thing we have control over is what goes on inside. These external events have no power in themselves, it’s us who give them the power. We can choose to see these as stressors that bring us down or just as another hoop to jump over.
Do you ever have one of those days where everything just runs smoothly? You feel on top of the world, you see everything in a new light and nothing can knock your happy mood. Then we have those days where we see everything in a negative context. Once this starts, it’s really hard to shake it. You might find yourself saying something like this … “First I spilled my coffee on my shirt, then my boss was angry about something and now I just got a parking ticket.” Wherever we place our attention, it grows. If any of those things happened on a day that we were on top of the world, they wouldn’t even phase us. We might even find these events comical.
How do we start to live our lives so that we have more days like these ones? The next time you’re experiencing a high or low day, approach it with curiosity. Why do you feel like this? What triggered it? If it’s a good day, how can you sustain it? How can you make it a good week? A good month? Begin to feel a sense of strength from the bottom of your core. Once you feel energized and powerful, you will start to knock down any negative thoughts before they have a chance to enter and cause damage. We have control over the thoughts that enter our being. Most of us don’t think we do, but we do. It’s all about training our mind to make our habitual thoughts more positive.
Try it today. When you notice a negative thought brewing, laugh at it. It’s most likely not true at all, especially if it’s self-criticism. Take deep breaths and inhale good energy that fills throughout your body and mind. Don’t let the negativity come in and become a belief that recycles over and over. If we let our mind run wild, it will habitually turn judgmental very quickly. Pull yourself out of this crazy cycle. Feel strong all the way down to a cellular level. Make every cell light with positivity and you will start to attract more of this into your life.
