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!
