Replace negative thoughts - Love yourself!

Replace negativity with something positive and of use to you...smile, laugh, dream, live and free yourself! 

Sometimes we may find that when we do not live in the present we forget to do what is best for us. For me, this can be forgetting to banish a negative, low level thought with a more positive one. It can feel tremendously difficult to not allow our mind to give these negative perceptions strength or control. Because once we do they not only effect our own inner peace but also of those around us. 

An example of my own peace of mind

When this happens to me (because it sure does) I regain control of who I am and do what I love to do best which is light up my candles and incense, put on soft calming music, turn off the lights and sit. Yes just sit! I can sit there for a long time and allow the thoughts to disappear. Yoga has the same effect helping me to focus on my breathing releasing tension not only in my mind but also through my entire body. Both enable me to regain my sense of self and place in the world. It reminds me of who it is that I am.

I know I am not merely of this body because I feel a connection to something bigger than the ideas in my head, the emotions I feel and the planet I live on. It is this connection that can surprisingly bring me back to reality. The reality that I am and we all are here in the now, living and experiencing, dreaming and visualising, creating and modifying. 

Love yourself!

There is so much of ourselves that we do not see at any given time. We ignore our own beauty and compare ourselves or get preoccupied with those around us. There are many times where we do not show love or time to the one person who will make a difference in our lives...ourselves! Learn to like YOU, learn to love YOU...because I tell you something you do already know but forget...there is no one else like YOU. You are you and you are great! Like and love yourself enough so that you can make your life fantastic, awesome and fulfilling!

Wait I hear those little thoughts in your head..."but I don't feel great", "but...but I am not as qualified"...hmmm is that the line you feed yourself with? Well you may want to change it because really you are what you say you are.

Start accepting who you are, I mean every part of you, flaws and all! Once you accept the you in all it's different forms you can begin to like and love the unique and wonderful person that you are. Before you stick another negative thought in your way...think about what this thought is really about? are you simply telling yourself how you don't want to be? If so why don't you do something about it?

Take control

Take control of your thoughts and replace them with that image, thought, memory, action or sound that gives you peace, makes you smile, leads you to the person you want to be and which enables you to start loving yourself. 

Stop wasting your time with unproductive thinking. Take a different approach and change those bad habits that do not serve your life purpose. 

Think love, be love and live the life you love!