Mental Tidying & Storing up Positivity
Treat your mental-emotional space like your home dwelling: do fall cleaning.
Thought patterns that don't fit anymore need to be culled
Behavioral habits you don't want to keep need to be swapped
Situations you are not stoked about need to be altered
&,
Positive alternatives need to be stocked up for the winter season
Where can you find the motivation to undertake these endeavors?
Self care: you feel best when you choose wellness and satisfaction
Self respect: you value yourself enough to show it in actions
Self esteem: you believe the truth -- you belong in a beautiful life
Self empowerment: you know you are the one to stand up for it
How can you get started?
Repetition: thoughts and actions you've done for years take time and practice to undo and replace with more helpful ones
Have patience!
Have fun renewing yourself
Be the loving friend you need
Creativity: engage your resources to step out of the mental realm and into creation space
Imagination: journal aspects of your ideal reality, why it's meaningful to experience, and commit to actions in that direction
Play: prioritize relaxation, play, pleasure, and rejuvenation between times of working and growing
hint -- it's go big AND go home
Body: take up space and really choose what you like and need, not what anyone else says
Body: Listen for your body's messages and follow them for rest, nourishment, movement, and interactions
hint -- less can often be more
Voice: write loving affirmations your Inner Child needs to hear and read (or sing) them aloud morning and night
Voice: listen to and sing heartsongs that light you up!
Artistic materials: make intuitive art that transmutes your feelings and displays hints from your Inner Wisdom
hint -- no drawing skills required; artsy words work too
Connection: be with friends who bolster you and are creating their own joyful life; also hold space for each other in struggly moments
Support: ask someone who loves helping others feel deeply happy about being themselves -- like me, for instance :)
You will have an easier, more empowered winter once you start a rhythm of filling your internal closet with as much joy and love as you can access.
Joy is one thing you want to continue collecting; in fact, hoard it!