Guidelines to Creating a Healthy Mindset

When our thoughts are healthy, our body and soul feel at ease. It is crucial to pay attention where our mind wanders, what information we’re feeding it and how this impacts our relationship with ourselves and others. As I sit here at home, my mind is constantly in a state of wondering. 

Pay attention to yourself and gain control over your mind so that consequently, you can regain some sense of control over the situation. Even when our surroundings feel chaotic and uncertain, our mind has the power to protect and heal itself.

So, let’s focus on our mindset for a moment.

I like to define mindset as: the way we receive, perceive and react to our environment and internal processes. Our mind undeniably runs our lives. When we have a healthy mindset, we are able to put ourselves first, we cope better with stress, we find ways to reframe our thoughts and focus on what is in the highest good for everyone involved.

When our thoughts are healthy, our body and soul feel at ease.

As our lives constantly change and evolve, it is important to remember that this stage too shall pass. So, how can we achieve a healthy mindset in such difficult times? Today let’s look at the most important guideline is achieving a Healthy Mindset. 

Acceptance – let’s be real, no one likes too much change. We are creatures of habit. Having a routine makes us feel in control of ourselves and our world. And when something unexpected happens, we panic, live in fear and see everything through a negative lens. People who practice acceptance also practice flexibility and letting go. Attaching to things, people and circumstances only create more resentment and powerlessness. When we align with acceptance, we surrender to the rhythms of life and we flow with the energy of the universe.

A way to practice acceptance can be done through the following affirmations:

• Find a comfortable place to sit or lay

• Close your eyes if it feels safe

• Place your hand over your heart chakra and repeat:

• As I detach from circumstances I can’t control, I allow the universe to guide me.

• I let go of my need to control and my need to plan

• Life is about phases, and this too shall pass

• I am able to keep myself safe, in spite of the chaos around me

• I was not ready to let go before, but I am now

• When I accept what is happening, I give myself the gift of peace. I deserve that peace

Again this of all the guidelines I will share with you over the next few days, is the hardest one and the one that takes the most time to master.

Wishing you and your family the very best on this day. 

Nancy