Good Monday Morning!

This morning when I woke up I tried a little some thing new~ this is part of the positive thinking stuff~usually when the alarm goes off I roll over smack the snooze button and groan that I don't want to get up yet. So today I tried a little something different. The alarm went off, in automatic pilot I reached over and smacked it, then I remembered...

It is a NEW day! New things to look forward to, new memories to create, new people to meet, new joys to discover! How can one be grumbly when there is so much to look forward to?

Although I didn't JUMP out of bed with enthusiasm, instead of grumbling and trying to go back to sleep, I made a mental list of all the great things that I had to look forward to today. Getting coffee made (mental note that when I buy my new coffee maker I want to buy one that will coffee ready for me when I wake up!) sitting down to that first cup of coffee and my email from friends, and so on...

Today is a "boring" stay at home sort of day~ yet even with that I know there are things to look forward to and things that will be special.

My new goal is to start each morning instead of grumping that it is morning and I don't want to get out of bed... I want to change that. I want to wake up thinking about all the great things that I have to look forward to!

For me, to help me really focus on being positive, I decided that I needed music that got me going in the right direction to start with. So I have downloaded "Walking on Sunshine" (just the chorus) to be my new morning alarm :) I'll get it added on my clock sometime today.

Then to help a little more with the really being positive first thing in the morning~ I am going to look for some really inspirational type pictures (or take them myself) to put on my bathroom walls and that way I have even more positive influence first thing in the morning (and through out the day too!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2XcqKaXDIY

Positive Affirmations

Let me share with you! If you have been part of this blog or part of my Joyful Life blog, you know I have been on this positive thinking journey for some time. I decided to do the slide show that had my affirmations in them~ a way to make the affirmations more than just words. To give them some tangibility. I I have been watching it and realized that there is more to the positive thinking than just thinking or saying.

For me, I figured out that it really has to be something more than words. Although the words written, read, said all help there needs to be more. I need it to be more real~ the slide show really is helping and I am working on one that I hope will really be even better for me. I figured something out. For the affirmations to work~ really WORK~ there must be some sort of way to actually make it something you believe that you can have in your life.

Here is the way I figured it~ say you want more happiness in your life. Happiness, when you say it is a word, will envoke a memory of a happy moment. If you examine the happy memory, there will probably be things in your memory that enlist all the senses. You can remember what you were hearing, what you were seeing, smells that may have been present, you may remember a certain taste if the memory involved a taste, and you may have memories of feeling textures or temptures. When I was looking at "Happiness" I knew that my most precious happy memories are things to do with my kids. I went on a happiness journey~

Wrote the word~ Happiness. Wrote my Affirmation: I have happiness in my life every day. Said my affirmation out loud: I have happiness in my life everyday. Then... then I sat quietly and and brought up a happy memory. For me it was yesterday, watching my kids ride on their bikes. Having my son out riding with my daughter was so cool. I was laughing and giggling at them and they were having fun together. We were happy. I thought about all the senses that I was using during this hour or so of happiness. There was the warm sun on my skin, a little breeze blowing and you could feel it. You could smell the flower garden across the street. There was laughter and the kids talking to me and eachother. Yes I could totally recall all the senses in bringing up the happy memory.

I figured out that for me, any affirmation, any of the stuff that I want to make happen in my life, any positive thinking I do, I need to be able to really BELIEVE in it and also be able to bring all my senses into bringing it to life in my mind and be able to play the movie of it in my head. Daydreaming with all the senses...

I am so looking forward to making this change in this and move forward on my Positive Thinking journey...

Stay Tuned and I'll update soon!