Positive Pause – 23rd March 2015 – Positive Suggestions

This week, focus on the power of suggestion from your conscious to your subconscious mind.  An example of this is when we automatically give ourselves unhelpful or negative suggestions such as, “I am always tired on a Monday morning” or “this meeting is going to be tough”.

Semantics and suggestions contribute greatly to our mental well-being.

This week turn your “internal conversation” around by giving yourself the suggestion that “tomorrow morning I will wake up with lots of energy” or if there is a challenge in work, look for an aspect that you feel confident about and suggest to yourself, “this meeting will go really well”.

Positive Pause 9th March, 2015 – Thinking outside yourself.

Thinking outside yourself.

As the evenings are becoming brighter, if you find the opportunity to go for a walk one evening this week, take it! A gentle, solitary stroll where you focus all of your attention outside yourself on what you can see, hear and smell is a good mental workout to calm a busy mind after a stressful or long day. By choosing to use your focus in this way, you will be open to a general sense of calm and well-being.  You may even allow yourself to experience the wonder of hearing the birds sing at twilight.