Tagged: motivation

Happy kernels!

According to my best friend (laptop), aka the included dictionary from Macintosh, a kernel is:

• a softer, usually edible part of a nut, seed, or fruit stone contained within its hard shell.
• [ in sing. ] the central or most important part of something: this is the kernel of the argument.

So I thought it’d be cute to name the list of things I love currently,

HAPPY KERNELS!

Here we go:

  • Getting into the habit of dancing regularly again. I dance around in my room, probably causing the people on the floor below to slowly turn into Mr. Heckles, but I don’t care. I’m far too happy hopping around, racing my heart beat, dancing to the music… Aaaahhhh. You should be daaaaaaaanciiiiin’- yeaaaaah!
  • Throwback to the nineties: Rewatching episodes of Miami 7, LA 7, Hollywood 7, etc 7 and laughing along with the super silly humor and innocent jokes.
  • Yoga: Doing a simplified version of the sun salutation, customized to fit my own body and its limitations (PH) and feeling great during the whole session. I feel like I connect spiritually and tune into a more peaceful state of being.
  • Meditating: I did a special session last Sunday and it gave me much peace and charged me of wholesome energy to go through a week of foreign language lessons (sometimes being in front of a class and trying your best to teach them the language when their heads are like rock, can be a bit draining, but thanks to that meditation I felt very relaxed and equanimous).
  • Music acquisition spree: Weeeeeeeee. New music. Please feel free to make it rain iTunes cards this way.
  • More dancing. YES MOAR. Learning dance steps to songs like a teenager for the dance festival. It’s so much fun.
  • New role models: See, I was starting to feel frustrated when watching interviews with actors and actresses I like, realizing upon listening to them talk, that the charm I’d built about them in my mind had vanished, to give room to a very imperfect and ego-trippy person who just didn’t inspire me much in my own human development. And then I watched the buddhist lama Tony Karam talk about how Buddhism changed his life. His way of speaking is so clear and rich, yet concise that it was instantly clear in my mind what kind of role models I am looking to get my inspiration from: human beings who are genuine and authentic and who do just the exact amount of ‘thing’, no more, no less, but just exactly the right amount, and thus come across as so real and my respect for them is naturally instant. Afterwards, I rewatched Adam Lambert performing Marry The Night on Glee, reliving the enjoyment from the first time I saw the episode, and noticing his charisma. I didn’t know much about him, so I watched interviews of him on youtube and found out how down-to-earth he seems to be, how charming and genuine, and real, and I thought “yes, I’ll take this one, too.” Then! Watching his performance on the Graham Norton Show lead me to watching the entire episode featuring Will.I.Am and Miriam Margolyes, and it was the most hilarious thing I’ve seen all month. Turns out Miriam Margolyes is very funny and also ballsy, and Will.I.Am is selfless and chill and looks cute when he laughs, just like a kid, man. So there you have it, a small list of my current Role Models/Human Inspirations.

Thanks for reading. And I hope your life gets more beautiful this week, little thing by little thing, because together they make a mammoth sack of Happy Kernels.

Yay!

Ale

The Beauty-fuller Life Challenge: Days 12 & 13

November 18th

♡ National day off (actually, the 20th, but they move it to the closest Monday) so no work. My family spent great part of the afternoon celebrating my brother’s birthday. We feasted on pizza, then hit the department store for my parents to redeem their presents to my brother, then came home to eat slices of cheese pie. The learning/growth experience came when I realized early on after leaving the house at 1pm, that I had forgotten my cellphone at the house. Until we came back at 5:45pm, I was disconnected from whatsapp, tumblr, candy crush, and in general, the internet. I noted I had several urges throughout the afternoon to whip out my cellphone to do whatever with it, but since I didn’t have it, I was able to be truly present with my family. For example, my dad and I joked and had conversations while my brother tried on things, instead of just being there and getting distracted with pocket-size technology. It was nice to find out I don’t disintegrate if I don’t have my smarthphone at hand.

♡ Wrote down the text and chose the image for this year’s poster of the Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness Walk in my city. My brother will make the poster and we’ll share it on facebook to invite our friends and family to the event. It’s in two weeks, and there’s some preparation to do and little gifts to make. Last year I made keychains:

Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness Ribbon Keychains

and some cupcakes, and my mom had bookmarks printed. This year I’m thinking maybe cut-out cookies in the shape of an awareness ribbon (but I don’t have a cookie cutter, so I’d cut them with a knife), or cupcakes again, and awareness bracelets, in addition to the few goods that were left over from last year’s Walk.

♡ Tuned my guitar and remembered the basic chords I know. The tips of my fingers are sore right now, which is okay, because calluses will be formed by this weekend if I keep this up.

♡ A sexy dinosaur wrote about her own realization of human’s potential, and how many of us let it go unused, wasted. She made radical decisions and is embarking on her own badass journey to unleash her grandiosity. Her words inspired me and reminded me why I decided to take this challenge. As she said, this generation feels a great need to get validated all the time, and it’s just never enough. We exist and we are capable of accomplishing great things, if only we decide to take the steps; what more validation do we need? Becoming better for the sake of making our lives count is enough, and even then we still get to inspire those around us to do the same.

♡ Started going through my clothes to decide what stays and what goes this year. I not only took out a few garments las night, but I also remembered some others that look very good, so I’ll try to find occasions to wear them.

November 19th

♡ Took photos of my surroundings. I especially loved getting to capture a couple of birds sitting just outside our house, on a rail. I’ll share the pictures with you soon.

♡ I used the Procrastination Pad technique, which I read about here. It is a most excellent tool. I wrote down several things to do later in the day, when I wasn’t working, which allowed me to continue my work without getting distracted.

♡ Played the guitar again, until it felt like my fingertips were about to start bleeding.

♡ I’m noticing I smile more when transitioning from one scene of my life to the other. For example, the other day I caught myself grinning with my whole face, feeling goofy, while I climbed in the car, just for no reason. Isn’t that great? I think so! Very much. This being is evolving, and growing, and becoming happier every day, and my heart is filling out with love.

♡ Went to a bead store to investigate about materials for the PH Awareness bracelets I wanna make. Today’s store is a small one, and didn’t carry awareness ribbon charms. But there’s a bigger store who was having a sale yesterday, which I’m hoping will still be on tomorrow, so I can stock up on charms and cord, and get workin’ on those babies, like a spider on speed.

 

Alright friends, thank you for reading. I hope your day unfolds magically, and that you’re filled with the audacity to follow the voice of your higher self.

Hugs,

Alejandra

PS: You go, Chloe Temtchine!

The Beauty-Fuller Life Challenge: Day 11

Sundaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Sundae! 😀

Hello, my darlings! Let’s get right to it:

♡ Allowed myself to wake up a little later because I was exhausted.

♡ Got up, and chose to throw in some productivity into this Sunday, and put a load in the washing machine. Yay!

♡ Made and ate a breakfast of tomato omelette, and ‘sponge cake’ with almond milk.

♡ Took a shower, took my time, and got dressed to go visit my granfather with my dad.

♡ We visited my grandpa, who’s 87 years old, and gave him a letter I’d been keeping for an uncle for a while now. We stayed to chat for a bit and he was really happy that we came to visit him. I was glad to see him, too.

♡ After eating lunch, Ratatouille was on TV so I started watching it. My eyelids were super heavy, though, so I took a nap.

♡ Woke up and got working on my brother’s birthday cheese pie, and some banana cupcakes I’d been meaning to bake. I already tried the cupcakes, they’re good!

♡ Last night (it was late so it counts as today) I watched Breakfast At Tiffany’s for the first time. It’s bizarre and funny, I loved the asthetics, and I thought Holy Golightly was fabulous and endearing.

 

I’m well on my way moving forward in this challenge. There are things that bother me on an almost daily basis, which can serve to motivate me if I know how to use them in my favor. I’m talking about seeing other people, role models in a way, that have such seemingly beautiful and interesting lives, and it just bugs me that I keep searching for something that I can’t quite reach. Then I remember that any happiness that any living being can find, is always inside of them. Striving is good to a certain extent, but it does have to be done in moderation. If you go too far, you suddenly find yourself never being satisfied with what you accomplish. This is why it is of utmost importance to learn to accept our present, and be happy wherever and in whichever circumstances we are. That is the key to being happy.

Anyway. Gonna keep up the motion of picking up activities that will make life more beautiful, while at the same time remembering to be grateful for all the blessings that the universe showers me with. Because when I stop and think about it, I am very fortunate, and I am thankful for that.

 

Thank you for reading! I hope you had a lovely Sunday, with family, friends, pets, or with yourself. I hope you enjoy yourself wherever you are, and know to appreciate the little details.

Happy Monday!

Hugs,

 

Alejandra

 

The Beauty-Fuller Life Challenge: Day 9

♡ Friday morning started off earlier than is the norm for this sleeping beauty. That’s right. I set my alarm clock one hour and a half earlier, and got up without hitting the snooze button. *brushes shoulders off*

♡ The motivation behind this was taking a course on First Aid at Civil Protection headquarters. My cousin Carolina told me on Tuesday that she was going to take it, and I expressed my enthusiastic interest in learning about that kind of thing, so she said ‘why don’t you come along? I’ll pick you up on friday!’. I was looking forward to this course since Tuesday, so my excitement was well built up when the class started. We learned emergency levels, relearned the Red Cross’s emergency digits, we learned types of hemorrhages, to assess the situation and know when it’s safe and when it’s not safe to provide help, what to say in an emergency call, why medication is not supposed to be in a first aid kit, etc. It was all very basic stuff, but still useful and nice to know it. The next level, where we learn CPR, is on Nov. 29, and my cousin and I are gonna take it! That one is supposed to be a hands-on type of course, so I’m pumped. It makes me feel really good to know important information like First Aid, and how to act in emergencies, because it gives me the confidence of knowing I’d be able to help in case of an emergency. Information is power! But most of all, having a new tool to help people. Yes :).

♡ Today was also Glee night with the same cousin. We ate grated carrots with lemon and chili powder as a snack, and then crackers with cream cheese (we love our cream cheese). Unique (from Glee) is an awesome character and I’m glad that she’s a transgendered teenager facing transgendered teenager issues on a show watched by millions.

♡ Had a heartfelt talk with my dad about my job situation right now (I was feeling somewhat upset about it), and it was nice having him listen to me and then share his own experiences. Bottomline, we need to keep giving and working toward our goals, send out the right vibes, and they will come back around and the pieces will fall into place at the right moment. Everything flows the way it is supposed to. I mean, the Universe has been here for a while, so I’d bet it really does know what it’s doing.

♡ Discovered a couple of websites where you can learn and practice typing with all your fingers by doing some special exercises. For those of you who don’t know, I type like a T-Rex secretary. I’m looking to become more like an octopus secretary, if you know what I mean. The french movie Populaire inspired me, also! I might even do the nails…

The real deal is one color per nail, so it matches the areas on the keyboard each finger is supposed to tap, but this is the only still from the movie I could find! 🙂

Have a lovely Saturday! Make it lovely, dear…

Hugs & butterfly kisses,

 

Alejandra

The Beauty-Fuller Life Challenge: Day 7

Today’s progress in a nutshell:

♡ Got up 20 minutes earlier than usual

♡ I’m eating more, so my appetite’s getting bigger, so I keep eating heartily

♡ Had a lovely english lesson with my mother’s best friend. We communicated very well, had a few laughs during class and thus I felt like the knowledge got absorbed better by her. This makes me feel happy and accomplished because after all, my goal being an english teacher is that my students actually learn.

♡ I’ve expressed my intention to become vegetarian to my mother, and she resisted at first, but then accepted it. I’m converting gradually by ceasing my red meat and pork consumption. There was red meat for lunch today, but my mother surprised me by offering to prepare some tuna with cream cheese for me. This was so sweet to hear, and it made me so happy I thanked her with a hug.

♡ Got over myself and my laziness/sleepiness at work and was productive.

♡ Had a nice chat with my dad during the drive to and from work in the afternoon. He mentioned a friend who has a friend in the U.K. and who is being offered a job opportunity there at a farm or vineyard or something. When I hear about the successes and opportunities other people get, it’s sometimes hard to feel compersion, but I did my best to express joy for her. And it is nice, that people get opportunities. There’s plenty of amazing things for everyone. How wonderful :).

♡ Dusted my guitar learning books. I even opened one!! *high fives self*

♡ The weather is oh. OH. SO GOOD. 15ºC ♡

♡ Poked my mind into crumbling the writer’s block that has kept my words prisoner for years, like an Ice age of sorts.

 

This was my day :). Oh, and I’m planning on going to sleep no later than 00:30.

 

Have a great one! xo

 

Alejandra

 

The Beauty-fuller Life Challenge: Day 6

Today I woke up with the emotional vibration & intention of making this day beautiful somehow. I couldn’t explain why I felt like that, because I just woke up like every other day (hitting the snooze button 4 times and grudgingly stumbling out of bed), but I did, and let myself flow in that direction.

I did trip on a few bumps in the road, though, but I gracefully recovered for my own sanity. Turned frustrations into opportunities to change my thoughts, summoned happy times and kneaded them in warmth in my heart, and decided to be better than that.

The result was a pure honesty and clarity about what the purpose of this challenge is. So I thought I’d share with you what I wrote down to guide me.

First I asked myself:

A month from now, when I have completed this challenge, how do I expect my life to be different? How do I hope to feel? What do I want my life to look like? What do I want my days to look like?

And this is what I wrote:

♡ Set the tone of the day with affirmations

♡ Rise early and go to bed early

♡ Read Louise L. Hay, Thich Nhat Hanh, Rick Hanson, etc., to learn and to heal.

♡ Practice meditation regularly

♡ Stretch, and exercise to tone my muscles and give my heart a lil’ workout

♡ Practice the foreign languages I know by listening to learning CDs, music, watching movies, reading, studying notes and doing exercises.

♡ Learn interesting and useful things. Read about science, learn new abilities, use my human potential for good

♡ Play the guitar several days a week. Proof of this in this challenge would be my callouses by early December (or even before that)

♡ Pamper myself, take care of my body

♡ Keep my spaces clean and in order

♡ Take pictures of things, people, make portraits of them and of myself

♡ Gain weight by eating heartily & healthily (I sometimes have the bad habit of eating just enough, and sometimes less than that, I’m not sure why, but I think it has to do with the way I deal with my self-love issues.) Gain weight and look healthy, with my legs having gotten fuller (they’re the part of my body I need to increase the love towards, the most).

♡ Set times to do things and do those things at those times. Be disciplined.

♡ Keep a log of income and outcome

♡ Keep my activities organized and my needs covered, so I know I’m doing the best I can with my life

♡ Write (novels, tales, songs, poems, blog entries) regularly.

So, that’s roughly what my days look like in a happy place in my mind. These are the guidelines to keep me on track with the activities I choose to do in this challenge. However, I do know I am trying to add a bunch of new things as new habits, and that it’s a big load to take on all at once. That is why I am allowing myself to go little by little, and to accomplish at least one thing a day that is targeted at this life I am working to make real.

Part of it all is getting a job I love, so I sent out 6 résumes between yesterday and today. I also chose reading before TV, and keeping the committment of writing before I immerse myself into ‘Catching Fire’ tonight.

As always, thanks for tuning in! Hope you have a wonderful night/day. I believe in you!

Alejandra

Holy Guacamole! The Beauty-fuller Life Challenge, Days 2, 3, 4 & 5

Sorry for the delay, guys! I actually had some technical difficulties, but I’m back and happy to write about the progress :).

It took me no longer than 24 hours to realize a challenge like this, or any kind for that matter, will always make you feel some resistance. Why? Because of your personal life momentum. Take mine, for example: a salad of Super Dull-o, with Miserable Croutons, and Stagnation Dressing. If you visualize this abstract momentum as a Titanic-sized ship, you’ll realize it will be a bit harder to veer its direction than you initially hoped.

Nevertheless, my dears, no one will change the course of a gargantuan ship by trying once and then deciding it’s too heavy to move, then sitting on the deck to sigh sadly. No, no. We be like Storm, from X-Men, fearless and powerful and capable of changing the weather, which is a pretty big deal. I mean, we won’t necessarily turn into mutants who can alter the forecast, but we can definitely become as great as we can be by being persistent on our goals.

Anyway. Here are the recaps:

November 8th

  • Most of the day was spent wondering what extraordinary thing I would do that day, and getting caught up in unexpected loads of work. Then I realized it was okay and that I shouldn’t stress over something that I decided to do to make my life happier!
  • Sushi at my cousin’s house, watching Glee’s “A Katy or a Gaga” (I’m a Katy, hands down) and laughing real hard at Darren Criss in a blonde wig, metallic half-pants, and pumps.

It must have been such a fun number to perform! He got the funniest costume and pulled it off with fierceness and humor. You go, Darren!

November 9th

  • After teaching an english class to a small (thankfully) group of children (my Saturday job) I went home and got a message from my friend Pattie (because it’s more fun to spell it like that).
  • Pattie and I went to have lunch to a restaurant and we both ordered enchiladas (which were delicious). Then we went to a shoe store to window shop, and then to the mall. She had two gorilla-sized ice cream scoops and I had a hot mug of Flamingo Chai Tea. We strolled around and walked into a couple stores, trying on clothes and finally deciding on purchasing a lovely somethin’ somethin’ each. The afternoon was lovely, and what I enjoyed most was our chat: it flowed particularly nicely, with honesty, daydreaming about the future, and laughter in equal amounts. Then she invited me to a Karaoke Bar/Club that night…
  • After she left me at my house in the afternoon and I had a brief anxiety crisis of sorts (I got a nervous tic on my eye anticipating the night), I decided to calm down, breathe, and plan on having a fun time at the bar even if ‘the odds weren’t in my favor’. What I mean by that is that the ‘club scene’ is about 238,900 miles northwest of my comfort zone, I’m not close to Pattie’s group of friends who were going there that night, one thing is to do silly performances of Michael Jackson’s songs in my living room and another one entirely to sing on a stage in front of strangers, and I just didn’t know what to wear, and feared I’d bump into people I know and don’t feel comfortable around. Whew. Well, guess what? It turns out I didn’t have to worry about ANY of those things because I had a great time regardless of it not being ‘my scene’. I also was able to make peace with the fact that I’m just not a ‘party’ person, that it’s perfectly FINE to want to stay home and watch Netflix while eating snacks on a Saturday night, and also that I’m not a hermit who’s closed off from the world, since I accepted this invite and went there and had a good time, even if I’m never planning on going back to clubs because I appreciate having working lungs (too much cigarette smoke) and my ability to hear (Ross Geller understands.)
  • While I waited for the night to arrive, I watched Boy Meets World and chatted with my friend Carlo, a dancer from Guadalajara. Hola, Carlo! 🙂

November 10th

  • Had Gorditas for breakfast, went to get groceries at the supermarket with my mom, and ate a fantastic rice (beansprout, chard, chicken and soy sauce) made by her.
  • Had a cathartic discussion with her. I love her and she loves me, and we are learning to get along better every day.  She’s a strong, hard-working woman, and sometimes I forget to appreciate all she does. But she does it, and she’s still a softie at heart. Mama, I love you very much.
  • Spent a long time reading ‘Catching Fire’ by Suzanne Collins. The rumors are true, it just keeps you glued to the pages. I can’t wait for the movie to come out!
  • Hot dogs for dinner while watching Boy Meets World. (YEAH, I’M ON A PHASE. And it will continue because of the….Momentum.)

November 11th

  • Working hard at the office
  • Using the stairs most of the time. I work office jobs and spending so much time sitting is not good for the body, and since I’m not exercising currently, I am choosing the stairs as much as I can to add some physical activity into my routine.
  • My dad drove me and picked me up at work in the afternoon, and we chatted nicely, and stopped for fresh bread (or more specifically ‘pan dulce’ in México).
  • I am now looking forward to preparing and eating dinner, and resume reading ‘Catching Fire’.

Thank you for reading, lovely!

Cosmos flower: Joy in love and life

Have a wonderful night, day, afternoon, existence!
I’ll do my best to keep posting, because even if I’m not doing outrageously extraordinary things, this challenge I set for myself is motivating me to be more aware and in control of my daily decisions to paint a more beautiful life. Blogging about it is just the lil’ push that’s reminding me to do the best I can with my awareness, knowledge and understanding, etc., and so are you :).

With love & care,

Alejandra!

0 – The Challenge

See this dog flying above the Golden Gate Bridge to catch his rubber chicken? That’s a dog who knows how to live an exciting and beautiful life.

You know what I wanna do? I wanna take up the challenge of doing something new/interesting/out of the routine every day. And I wanna do that whilst also integrating bettee habits into my life, and at the same time distancing myself from the internet. Jokes aside, man, what did I even do before spending all my free time browsing the endless pit that is the Internet? I’ll bet you can relate. Or if not you… then you. I see you. Okay. So how do we do the thing? Brainstorm time!

  • More world explorer mode
  • Less brainless internaut mode
  • More living life with purpose and gusto
  • Less dull day-to-day
  • More creation
  • Less absorption of stimuli
  • More color, self expression
  • Less auto-pilot stagnation
  • More questioning
  • Less giving up cues to give an opinion
  • More kindness
  • Less selfishness
  • More physical action
  • Less sedentariness
  • More Ratatouille-like gastronomic explosions
  • Less eating ‘just anything’
  • More feeling alive
  • Less feeling like life is just passing us by

Whew. Did that cover everything? I hope so! If not, feel free to ADD YOUR OWN FANTASTIC IDEAS.

Now for the technicalities: what are the stipulations and parameters?

  • Should it be a week or a month-long challenge?
  • Would there be no free-time internet at all? Or would there be some internet? I’m leaning toward stipulating a short and limited amount of time for checking e-mail, loading the weekly Glee episode, and googling specific things when I really need to know. I’m talking about maybe no more than 30 minutes a day (if you think this is a lot, *chuckle*), but really, no more than that. It’s just that I never really know how to go about withdrawal, because it can go very well the first day and then on the second day I’m like ‘Oh, pshh, I’ll just get online for 10 minutes’ and then it’s past midnight and I wonder in hysterics how the heck I let that happen.
  • Ok, so give self time for internet, but absolutely no more than that. If I go beyond the time I’m allowing myself to use the internet, then I’ll know I’m not using my free time as best as I could! Free time should be dedicated to living LIFE instead of reblogging pictures of funny/cute animals for hours. (What? How did my life get to this? *nervous laughter*)
  • Oh, right, the timelines. Whoa! I meant to say guidelines about the time, like, when and for how long is the challenge taking place, and the word timeline came out. Such magic.
  • Ok so, the timelines. I’m thinking a month, but I might be feeling a little ambitious. I mean it would be super awesome to ‘wake up’ on December 7th and be like ‘Whoa, my life has changed so much for the better and I’m happier than I was a month ago, and healthier, and my life has more meaning and I’m having more fun. Yay, this is fantastic”, wouldn’t it? It totally would.
  • There would be a commitment to blog about each day of the challenge, keeping the participant(s) accountable by showing the daily progress and documenting each new/interesting/out of the routine thing that we do each day. Wouldn’t that be awesome? Because not only would life be more interesting, but we would be sharing it with EACH OTHER ET AL!
  • This is just sounding better and better, am I right?
  • There could be meditation, and cooking weird recipes, and dancing with hula hoops, and stretching our limbs, and going out to that new funky place, and having honest conversations, and taking photos of everything, and reveling on the magic that surrounds us, and sharing it with the world from our unique points of view. Are you interested? I know I am.

So, guys. Would you like to take on this challenge with me? Getting away from things that don’t add much good to your life, and instead pursuing and doing things that make you feel fulfilled? What’s that thing that you’ve been meaning to do? Are there several things? What’s a thing you’ve been meaning to quit doing? You wanna do this together? Change our lives and see how it tastes to live beautifully? Doesn’t that sound precious?

Who’s with me!

EVERYONE WHO’S WITH ME SAY AYE!!!

Oh, Hey!

Yes. Hi!

Just wanted to remind you: things are rolling, man.

Things are following its course, they just needed your push

They just needed you to tell them where to go, dude.

You’re doing great. You’re a great notion herder,

things are already halfway there.

High five yourself, it’s been a tough ride so far

there’s still some to go

But you’re doing just fine

In fact, you’re doing your best,

and I’m proud of you.

Things will keep going, you know?

High heavens have heard you, they’re on your side

Yes, they are working on this just as you are

So sit back for a moment, and relax

Breathe

It will come when the time is ripe

Yes, nod with me, you know it’s gonna happen

That’s right, I was hoping to see you smile

Thank you for that, you look lovely

Here’s a hug

You’re amazing.

You’re just one tiny little person in this vast illusory existence

And you’re amazing,

all for yourself

Keep going, because you’ll get there

You and I know it

And when we reach there, it might look different than you thought it would

But there’s a big chance it will be better

Trust.

(I meant to wink but this is text, so imagine it)

For real: Positive Thinking

For real: Positive Thinking

‘How about a happy thought?’ is what I offer to myself when my mind has gone on automatic overdrive into Negative Memory Lane/Unfullfilled Fears Factory. It helps me to stop the madness and give myself a break from all the self-induced mental torture. I just read that if we dwelled on the positive like we do on the negative, our brain’s neurones actually would learn to make new and healthier connections for our own general well-being. It’s like training our brain, like we do any muscle, to be happier. It works. I have tried it, dwelling on happy memories and letting my insides completely fill up to the brim with joy. I stay there, in that mindset for as long as it takes for my mood to switch radically. It’s like my blood turns bright pink and my heart pumps fueled by beautiful emotion. It’s the most amazing self help exercise I’ve chosen to put to practice so far. I recommend it to you. Whenever you can, remember a happy memory and play it in your head, absorb all the happy it made you feel at the time, go through the details, and let it make you feel good. You deserve it. Do it often.