Thank you to very one who has viewed my page I can't actually believe I have over a thousand readers so I seen this post on my friends page (Thanks Angi ;-)x ) earlier this evening and to be honest had been trying to do this myself all evening!!!
This time of year can bring with it joy and excitement but it can also bring sadness and ebs of lows not to mention colds etc mainly due to the weather, maybe thats the irish in me though we always blame the weather lol! Anyway the past few days I have been feeling really ill due to a sick tummy and this obviously has a knock on effect on my mood now I am relatively always positive and happy well the majority of the time no one is ever happy 110% of the time remember that!! it helps!NO ONE IS EVER ALWAYS HAPPY but there are mental exercises you can do to get you close to it!!;-)
So today after a few days of feeling like this this I decided to try and think my way out of it completely, I had been trying to do this the last few days so maybe it was the general effect of my continued positive thinking it but i feel like its worked so I'm going to share this simple practice with you.
I completed a book a few years ago that described one of the best ways to find happiness is to be silent and still, now on reading it originally I thought NOOOO how is that going to make me happy surely I should go out meet my friends, go for a few drinks or do something fun thats the only way I'l really cheer myself up and find happiness, now I'm not for one second saying that you shouldn't do that of course you should I do it as much as I can. What I am saying though is that there is a time for going out and having fun and what I've come to understand is there is a time for being silent.
I can imagine at this stage your thinking about stopping reading and that this isn't for me, this inner peace malarkey etc well whats that saying don't knock tip you've tried it!!! So in this book it had suggested taking at least half an hour to be silent a day to let your thoughts wonder, that this alone without even progressing into higher state of meditation would help your general well being.W el I'm unsure if its the fact the I've moved to one of the busiest most populated cities in the world that has made me more drawn to this or the fact that i have progressed some what in my judgement of anything before trying it but I'm doing it and its working.This evening I ran myself a steaming hot bath and lit some candles before getting into it, I find this is the easiest time for me to simply sit and be silent so of course if you try this after getting in your mind starts going crazy because your trying not to think! all the fears and anxieties start to rise from the depths of your mind NOW this is the time to act, one by one you need to pick every fear, hurt and problem as you see it in your life and find a solution to it, you may be thinking thats ridiculous I can't find a solution to it if there was a solution I wouldn't be worried. So okay if 100,000 in debt you might not be able to find a solution to it straight away but you will be able to pull yourself back from the general anxiety and fear of the situation.
This method can be used for any hurt from you past, fear for your future or general ongoing problem in your life, I'm talking about the relationship that didn't work out, the job you didn't get, how much you miss someone and are completely struck by grief, whatever it is, you need to sit down and think of a solution to that problem, see as many sliver linings on the issue that you can and keep listing until you've out completely stop focusing on the issues themselves and start focusing on the sliver linings. Do this as much as you can you can use a notebook if it helps so write down your issue/problem or mentally in your head and cross it out then start thinking of the good things to come out of it.
So for example if your anxious or grieving because you miss someone due to them passing away or otherwise just not been in your life anymore try and they of all the good thats come out of the situation, all the friends you've made, all the love you've been shown, how strong it has made you, how much it has changed you for the better..... etc
Or just say for example and I'm trying to think severely here that you are 300,000 in debt okay i can imagine your head i completely recked your stomach is sick with anxiety due to your solar plexus which i spoke about it my last blog.1 i would think of all the good things to come out out it like the fact that you will have compassion for anyone going through a similar situation. 2 It may show you who your real friends are i.e. if you express your worries to them (which you need to, to release them from your body) 3 You should think about all the good things you have in your life the love of your family etc. Now if all that fails think of the worst scenario that could ever happen from the situation more than likely in this scenario you'd call of r bankruptcy and would be fine but in every situation think of the worst outcome you won't die you'l still have money to eat etc.
-Hope you take something from this
Lots of love Annie xxx
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