Everyday is a fresh start | A positive Mindset

Hello everyone, It's Wednesday today midweek and I can't help but feel so much better about Myself. Positivity truly is a mindset, for the longest time I've been ruminating over negative thoughts which greatly affected my mood and confidence. The problem with negative thoughts is they can become self-fulfilling. Henry Ford said, "Whether you think you can or you think you can't- you're right". So I thought to myself, why not try to reverse the game and use positive, empowering and uplifting thoughts.

A few weeks ago I started being more intentional with my days and nights, trying to live in the moment. I started waking up early, I pray and meditate and think about all the things I want to achieve on that day. I watch the sunrise and I like how it warms up my face on my walk to work. knowing how better I have felt and how productive I've been with just those simple things, I then decided to start working out.

I've always been a fitness lover but somewhere along the way I always slip up because I tend to put so much pressure on myself to achieve a certain body goal. I would look at myself in the mirror every day after working out and I was so obsessed with weighing and measuring myself which now I realize wasn't good for my mental and physical health.

So instead of working out to achieve a certain goal, this time I decided to put away the weighing scale and the measuring tape and workout to make myself feel better and for my overall well-being, this way it has taken off a huge load of pressure and anxiety and I feel so much better day by day.

At night after getting off work, I take a warm shower and let my hair down, sit outside and read a good book with some rose tea in hand. Am currently reading My hope for tomorrow by Ruby Dhal and it's basically for anyone on the path to self-discovery.

I also started doing daily affirmations after coming across a podcast by The affirmations babe. I can't say that I haven't come across affirmations or manifesting in my life but I always thought it was some spiritual cultic stuff, please ignore my ignorance, we live and we learn.

Being someone who has had a couple of personal struggles over the past few years I didn't know it was something I needed.

They’re helpful when you’re not at your best: when you need support and a boost in self-esteem, whether you're facing excess stress, high demands at work, higher levels of insecurity, grief, or life setbacks. This is where I've been for quite some time in my life always trying to find a balance.

Affirmations and manifestation are saying things in the present tense rather than in the future tense so instead of saying I will live a life of abundance, say I am living a life of abundance. Even if it's not true at that moment the more you say it the more you start to believe it, that's how our brains work.

Generally, how you use your brain will alter your brain. Thinking patterns - both positive and negative - will run certain “train tracks” into your brain. The more you use the same track, the deeper, automatic, and easier it gets. So what you practice, you become. And that’s why and how affirmations work. They will create “positive train tracks” and alter the negative ones. Someone said "We are all telling ourselves a lie, so why not tell yourself a better lie. I felt that.

That's not even the whole story, Being in this positive mindset I felt a shift in my entire being, in my thoughts, my emotions, how I spend my day and relate with people. I've always been the girl who smiles at everyone even strangers, then I wasn't and I remember one day just walking in the street and a stranger asked me why I was so mad, I had no idea that the emotions I was giving off even unknowingly were reflecting on to other people.

Now that I am in this state of positivity, I am smiling more and no doubt it's given me more hellos from strangers and lately, I just find myself less closed off and always being in the moment, having meaningful conversations when I talk to people and my smile just radiates certain confidence and happiness that I can't explain. It's just amazing and I couldn't be happier ☺️.

To conclude today's article, I feel like a positive mindset can help improve what’s already good. But you still have to take some action yourself. Think of being positive as a step toward change, because it's change itself.

Until next time my loves,

XO

Wanjugu.