Happiest of Holidays To You!
This year the holidays look a little different for most of us. And even if the holidays have slowed down this year, seasonal blues still have a way of sneaking in. It can disrupt your joy with stress, and overwhelming waves of sadness. So, there are three things I want you to remember this holiday season. Each one is powerful on it’s own, but woven together radiates an inner light that can pierces through those holiday blues making way for the joy and bliss to flow right into your heart.
1St REMEMBER This:
Holiday blues are a state of mind and you have power over what you think…
Remember you don’t have to take directions from your thoughts; you have the power to direct them. Your brain in a powerful part of your humanity, but it’s so important to understand it’s a tool that you control. You have the power to choose your thoughts, engage your imagination, and focus wherever it is you want to focus your attention.
If you are focused on the darkness and fear then unchecked your imagination will go there and perpetuate that very thing. Your amygdule will keep processing those negative emotions holding you in a suspended flight, fight, or freeze pattern.
If you can quiet down your amygdala and activate your prefrontal cortex you have the power to step into your higher level of thinking. You can set your focus to optimism and create a solution-oriented path forward.
You might not be able to shift your mind’s focus all at once… and that is ok. Just work at watching each thought, and notice if it will lead you away from where you want to go or closer to it. Slow down your thoughts and incrementally reach for ones that feel better.
With each thought you can make more room for the joy to flow in to your life. Your imagination on go wild creating thoughts and images of what is possible. Bliss is also a state of mind and it’s well within your power to design it for yourself one thought and feeling at a time.
The last couple blogs and videos will help you do just that. Remember an easy way to shift your state of mind is put yourself in front of as much of the good feeling stuff as you can. So read or reread the blogs, watch the videos or even play the videos in the back ground while you do your holiday activates.
FOCUSING WHERE YOU HAVE POWER BLOG & VIDEO
KNOWING YOUR HEART BLOG & VIDEO
2nd REMEMBER THIS:
There is always something to be grateful for in your life…
No matter how blue you may be feeling there is always find something to be grateful for in you life. Oprah always says she wakes up and finds gratitude in the fact she is lucky enough to have another day. She is breathing and living and so there is always something possible waiting for her.
Let me tell you she is telling you the truth. If you are breathing and living then you have found a perfect place to start focusing on your gratitude. Consciously call that out set’s your mind to focus there. You will find that you are scanning your moments for glimpses of that same kind of light. The more you seek the more you will find.
Then if you want to expand on that joy catch those thought of gratitude and expand on them. Whether you are writing them out or just calling them out for yourself take it deeper. Elaborate on why you are grateful for that thing or experience. How does it feel to bask in that unique expression of gratitude? This transforms a statement of gratitude to an experience of gratitude that you can really reflect back on, and it holds you in your inner light.
THE OPTIMISM BLOG & VIDEO walks you through 3 great practices that will foster more optimum and gratitude in your life.
3rd REMEMBER THIS:
The light that transforms those blues into joy is infectious…
As you cultivate the joy with your thoughts, step into a place of deep gratitude, and allow yourself to focus on what is good then you step out of the blue into the light. That light grows within you building momentum and offering you more and more moment in a state of bliss.
So as you keep that inner light multiplying remember to pass it on. Light and joy are utterly contagious and it’s the best kind thing to spread this holiday.
Plug into that inner light and then reach out to someone in your life and tell them that you love and appreciate them. Make it more then a statement make it an experience. Tell them why you love them and what your favorite thing is about who they are.
Your focus from your heart to their heart will radiate light through both of you. And you know what, it doesn’t even matter if they have the capacity to take it all in… Just embody the joy and gratitude and be the light and it will inevitably lead you to a state of holiday bliss.
Ok… keep those three things in mind over the next few weeks and into your new year. While I will be taking some time away from creating for you over the holidays, I will be relying to comments and sending you personalized notes back. So leave me you comments and tell me what you are grateful for in your life & what is creating bliss and joy in your life. Or if you can’t seem to get there on your own tell me that too and we will get there together.
