Positive Quotes are not for everyone!
On the final weekend of the Summer, let’s mention the weather.
Isn’t it funny how it is always a topic of conversation?
I’ve lived in England 25 years and every single call I have with my mum in N Ireland we mention the weather.
It can often be the influence of how we emotionally begin our day; looking out your window and seeing rain could just make you want to get straight back into bed and pull the covers back over your head staying right where you are. Getting that caveman/woman feeling of just not wanting to do today.
Just wanting to stay right where you are, under the duvet!
Especially if you’ve not slept well or you have a lot on your mind.
Or maybe you’re the type of person who just springs out of bed, excited about what the day will bring you-hail, rain or shine?
Now: I can’t control the weather; but I can control the way I allow it to make me feel- and so can you!
This month, my topic of conversation is “positive quotes” and how they resonate with us.
They might cause some of us to roll our eyes at the disingenuousness of it all- whereas for others, they love them.
Maybe some days you read them and they resonate with you and other days they’re just ‘woo woo’, meaningless & completely disconnected from reality.
Someone sends you a quote on social media and you think “That’s so thoughtful!”- and then you realise they’ve sent the same quote and message to twenty other friends…does that make you feel differently?
You see, it’s not actually about the quote itself, it’s about the connection: the thought it makes you think, how it makes you feel and how grounded and centred you feel in yourself.
When you wake up in the morning, what’s the first thing you do?
Do you get up straight away?
Do you snooze the alarm… up to 5 times or more?
Reach for your phone? If so, which platform are you on?
Social media, the news, your emails, your bank account, all of these?
Opening all the tables in your mind, one by one…
Maybe you look at positive affirmations or have your own, or you exercise/stretch when you wake?
Can you truly, hand on heart, tell yourself you are setting yourself up for the best day ahead? How could it be better for you?
Are you taking in positive information? Talking to yourself in a positive way?
Are you giving your mind and body what it needs?
‘Thinking’ positive thoughts allows us to ‘interact’ positively with others to then ‘act’ positively, so we can achieve the best outcome for our inner-self.
In Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, it’s called our 3 P’s. A simple yet effective little formula I encourage clients to use every day.
Setting out with the intent to have a good day is helped and supported by our daily actions, creating small incremental steps forward each day.
So: you don’t have to wake up to motivational quotes, they don’t need to be on your wall, you don’t need to have one as your daily mantra- but imagine if you consciously decide each morning that ‘Today is going to be a good day!’
Your brain is always listening.
Imagine that when you read that quote, whatever it might be, that you think good thoughts, thoughts which invigorate positive memories in your past- or exciting times for your future?
Imagine if you read it and smile, allowing it to radiate within rather than drain you…
You see, the quote itself can be a totally rubbish one- the quote itself is not what matters, it is the way that it makes you feel that counts!
Me?
I do love a good quote; I have a calendar of 365 of them on my desk at home- I have one on my bedroom wall that I see every night before bed and I have a box full of them in my therapy room.
You don’t need to feel the same.
Just do what makes you happy.
Please do feel free to share any favourite quotes you have with me, I’ll welcome them with open arms, do it right now so you don’t forget! :)
Love,
Karen.
