The month of April has definitely brought with it those April showers, hasn’t it?

Isn’t it funny how the weather is always a topic of conversation?

It can often be the influence of how we begin the day; you look out the window and see the rain and just want to pull the covers back over your head- you get that caveman feeling of not wanting to do today. Just wanting to stay right where you are, under the duvet!

Or maybe you spring out of bed, excited about what the day will bring you- hail, rain or shine?  

Now: I can’t control the weather; but I can control the way I allow it to make me feel- and so can you!

This month, I want to talk about positive quotes and how they resonate with us.

They might cause some of us to roll our eyes at the disingenuousness of it all- whereas for others, they love them.

Maybe some days you read them and they resonate with you and other days they’re just ‘woo woo’ clap-trap, completely disconnected from reality.

Someone sends you a quote on social media and you think “That’s so thoughtful!”- and then you realise they’ve sent the same quote and message to twenty other friends…

You see, it’s not actually about the quote itself, it’s about the connection: the thought it makes you think, the feeling it makes you feel.

When you wake up in the morning, what’s the first thing you do?

Do you get up straight away? Do you maybe snooze the alarm… up to 5 times? Reach for your phone? If so, which platform are you on? Social media, the news, your emails, your bank account?

Do you look at positive affirmations? Do you exercise when you wake? 

Do stretches? Can you truly, hand on heart, tell yourself you are setting yourself up for the best day ahead?

Are you taking in positive information? Talking to yourself in a positive way?

Are you giving your mind and body what it needs?

‘Thinking’ positive thoughts causes us to ‘interact’ positively and ‘act’ positively.

In the world of Hypnotherapy, we call these our 3P’s.

Setting out with the intent to have a good day is helped and supported by our daily actions.

So: you don’t have to wake up to motivational quotes, they don’t need to be on your wall, you don’t need to have one as your daily mantra- but imagine if you consciously decide each morning that ‘Today is going to be a good day.’

Imagine that when you read that quote, whatever it might be, it makes you think good thoughts, thoughts which invigorate positive memories in your past- or exciting times for your future?

Imagine if you read it and smile, allowing it to radiate within rather than drain you…

You see, the quote itself can be a totally rubbish one- the quote itself is not the point, it is the way that it makes you feel that counts!

Me? I do love a good quote; I have a calendar of 365 of them on my desk at home- I have one on my bedroom wall that I see every night before bed and I have a box full of them in my therapy room; I don’t need you to feel the same.

Just do what makes you happy.

Please do feel free to share any favourite quotes with me, I’ll welcome them with open arms. Message me now.

Love,

Karen.