As we are now a few months into the new year, remember to embrace this year as a time of new discoveries, opportunities and adventures! It is important to keep your perspective grounded in your strengths. Take a moment today to value and appreciate yourself for all the ways you showed stability, resourcefulness and perseverance throughout the past week, month or year. Take a moment to thank yourself for the times you stuck it out when you didn’t think you could, or when you went the extra mile and it really made a difference, or the moment you decided to face something uncomfortable or challenging and it opened your heart and your perspective. These are your moments of growth that create increased resilience.
Being determined and courageous are powerful attributes that are strengthened by optimism. Positive thoughts and actions build on themselves day after day and create an future path that reflects joy and abundance. Positive thinking is also good for the immune system because it reduces anxiety and increases the bodies ability to fight inflammation and disease. Positive thinking has been shown to be specifically beneficial when we are in the most challenging moments. When your life feels completely out of control, this powerful habit can start a reaction of events over which you do have total control. Being positive is a choice that is 100% within your power.
Choose to embrace the positive that is around you and live in gratitude of your strengths and blessings. You have the energy within to lift yourself and shine your own special light.