Health and Wellbeing

How to keep a positive mind during the winter

December and January are our darkest months of the year. Animals are hibernating and with everything we have experienced in 2020 I am sure many of you would like to be hibernating as well.

So, the big question is how do we keep a positive mind set?

We need to realise that where you stand is based largely on what you believe about yourself and what you are thinking about the most! We are a magnet, and our thoughts are like the iron filings that the magnet attracts.

The more we repeat things like “Lost another job, I am not qualified for anything else”, “I hate my life”, “I will never get a relationship that works”, we are endorsing what we don’t want in our lives.

When this happens, we need to catch ourselves and turn it around. Yes, this can be very difficult, and it does not happen overnight, but it will change your outlook and your behaviours if you just do it for 90 days. A good book to read is: Excuse me your life is Waiting by Lyn Grabhorn.

Meditation every day is another way of stilling the monkey mind. Even just five minutes a day is better than not meditating at all. Washing up at the sink and day dreaming is a form of meditation.

THE MIND IS THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN YOUR BODY.

My mantra in life is this:

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”

From the book The Law of Attraction.

It is not helpful to keep looking into the rear view mirror of the past, because you can only reflect on that experience, not change it. We have to look to new horizons no matter how daunting it may be to grow and to change our present circumstances.

Remember the only constant in life is change and change happens all the time. Once again we need to ask ourselves a simple question; Every time we are tempted to react in the same old way, ask yourself if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future?

Remember, success starts in your mind. Don’t be a product of your circumstances be a product of the decisions you make - it is a case of mind over matter.

THE KEY TO ALL OF THIS ARE YOUR FEELINGS

With every positive thought you have you bring in that feeling of excitement, happiness, joy.

Try to remember a time when things were going well and how you felt. Bring that feeling back with every positive thought you make.

Make sure you remove negative people away from you because they only bring you down further. Exercise, get out into the parks, jump in the puddles, kick the leaves, roll in the snow if we have any. Look at the beauty in nature and breathe in the fresh air of being alive and what this New Year is going to bring for you.

I am giving colour consultations during December and January if you want to take a look at where you are and the gifts that you have. These will be conducted over Zoom. Contact me via: colette@the garsides.net and please add your phone number.

Wishing you all a blessed Christmas and here’s to prosperity in 2021.