Day 4: In my morning reading there was a page about how our moods can change based on what's going on around us. However, being so vulnerable to outside events sets me up to be a victim of things I have no power to change. What I can do that I've learned over the years, is quiet myself by "getting out of my head and back into my body." I do that by just noticing my breathing, how my body feels, how my feet feel on the floor/ground and by noticing what I'm thinking (and changing it to something positive). Listening to the sounds in my environment and looking around at where I am help too. Sometimes I can't quiet myself because my environment is so chaotic and charged with other people's upset, so I have to physically leave that space to quiet myself.
Practicing this has taught me that I am actually reacting to my own thoughts rather than what's going on around me. That was weird! No matter what's going on, it's my negative thinking that causes my upset. What I can do to get out of that victim place is to think about how I could inject something positive into the situation and do that. Even if it has no effect, just thinking about something positive and taking action on it, returns me to a positive place.
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