Mindset for My Starting Fresh Plan
6 Ways to Change Your Mindset
You can’t overcome a disease in an instant. You can’t change someone else against his or her will. And you can’t change the past. So what can you change? The future!
You can change your perception and belief about your circumstances and usually change your circumstances. Doing so will help you change your attitude and ultimately allow you to grow beyond the struggles you can’t control.
Here are six easy ways to start changing your mindset to prepare to overcome an unfavorable diagnosis:
- Control your mind. – The first thing we must do is prepare our mind which will govern our actions. Knowing why you want to get healthier will provide the motivation to create new habits.
- Awareness is key. In order to gain conscious control of what goes on in your head, you need to develop a keen awareness for this process.
- Be still for a moment, take a deep breath and free your mind of all the chatter that’s going on inside, making room for new possibilities of health to enter.
- Have faith. Don’t say you can’t. Yes, you have pain and ailments to fight, insecurities to overcome, loved ones to take care of, and work goals to achieve, but a break from it all is necessary.
- Pause. It’s perfectly healthy to pause and meditate and reflect for a while. If you don’t, you will burn yourself out. This is the hardest part for me to grasp because I’m always driving myself; my life was just one big “to do” list.
- De-stress on a regular basis. That means finding quiet solitude, focusing your attention inward on what is important, and make time for recovery from the chaos of your routine. Stress is much worse on your body than eating well is good.
- Change your focus. – From the awareness of your thoughts and emotions you become able to consciously redirect your focus.
- Focus on something that inspires and motivates you instead of concentrating on what drags you down, like getting well or healthier instead of your current state.
- Focus on the next logical, meaningful step. What can you do about it?
- There is always hope; even if the doctor says it looks hopeless, so don’t allow those negative thoughts to take control and grow hopeless. Keep your hope alive through positive awareness of what you can do in your control to change the situation.
- Don’t let the pain make you desperate. Just believe in a better tomorrow.
- Don’t let the bitterness overcome you. It’s easy to feel sorry for yourself when you, or a loved one, are in chronic pain and you can’t see the end, or your doctor has pronounced a death sentence over you.
- Spend your energy taking steps to better your health, get educated on ways to improve your situation.
- Change your thoughts and you change your reality. What you focus on you attract. Dwelling in negativity is poison.
- Our thoughts control our moods and our will. We have to believe we can rejuvenate our bodies and become whole again.
- Attitude makes a big difference.
- Surrender your fears. – You get inner peace when you surrender your worries. You find peace within you only when you turn your attention toward it.
- Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with what’s on your mind. I think this is why my partner was able to heal so well because he was able to control his mind and his fears. He was determined.
- You find inner harmony with where you are now until they do change physically.
- Worry is a vicious cycle, surrender the habit.
- The same mind that can experience peace or worry and is as close as your next thought.
- Practice gratitude. – Appreciate what you have and be thankful. God loves a thankful heart and through our thankfulness we become better instead of bitter. Have faith for what is yet to come.
- Look and anticipate the miracles in your body and your life.
- Possibilities are endless, keep trying to improve.
- Take action steps just being grateful that improvement is possible and you don’t know where you will end up but it will be better than where you are now.
- There is always a better you waiting, feeling better and younger is possible.
- Value what you know, and have faith in the countless things you don’t yet understand so you can enjoy growth.
- Life is a journey so while you might be sad now you can be happy and thankful for a healthier tomorrow.
- Get excited about renewing your mind and your body and be thankful that there will always be new things to try and new possible ways to heal your body.
- Determine to change even though there are growing pains. – Change takes struggle and changing your habits. Success doesn’t come without struggle.
- Everything that happens helps you grow, even if it’s hard to see now. Looking back facing my partner’s cancer and taking steps to overcome it created so many victories and joys once we got to the other side. But we never would have without the struggles we faced at the time.
- Circumstances will sometimes knock you down, hard. Your health could even take a turn for the worse. Everyone has felt from time to time that everything that could go wrong has and you feel like you are stuck forever, but everything changes.
- When you feel like quitting, Never Give Up! Sometimes through our pain is our sweetest victory. Sometimes you have to go through the worst, to arrive at your best. You often face your greatest struggle when you are closest to your biggest miracle.
- Rely on your body. – The mind responds to your body’s levels of tension, breathing, and movement. Your thoughts control feelings and the words you speak. The mind and body are connected and have a direct affect on each other so take care of both.
- Adjusting how you use your body you can directly influence your state of mind, and dramatically transform your attitude.
- Exercise. There’s an old saying, “you have to feel like exercising to exercise and you have to exercise to feel like exercising. So use your mind to help you body and use your body to help your mind feel like it.
- Sit up straight. Smile. Help your mental state.
- Take some deep, strong breaths and stretch. Notice how you feel better?
- Your body wants to heal itself – help it.
- Take the body God gave you and make it the best you can, improve it, use it!
- Your body is the best tool for changing your mind and your mind is the best tool to improve your body.
- Take the first step to create a more healthier You!
Our mind can be our biggest battle. It’s the place where the greatest conflict resides. Fear is where we think things are going to happen that never happen. But if you allow those thoughts to dwell in your mind, they will succeed in robbing you of peace, joy, and ultimately your life. You will think yourself into a nervousness, depression, and possibly death. I know how destructive fear can be and I know what it’s like to think terminal thoughts like you will never be better. But those fears exist in your mind and you must control them.
It makes no sense to fear all the things you CAN control and by educating your mind to the ways you can help your body you can feed it with hope, reduce the stress, and change your environment. You can decide how you spend your time. You can select what you will eat, read and study every day. You can choose how you’re going to respond to unfortunate situations when they arise, and whether you will see them as a victim or opportunities for a healthier you.
And most importantly, even when it’s hard, you can choose your attitude, which dictates whether you will get bitter or better.
What helps you change your mind from negative to positive when life gets stressful and painful?
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