Sit with me. Take a breath. Slow your thoughts down. Breathe deeper. Slow down.
Have you slowed down yet?
Now read this positivity: You are amazing. You are beautiful. You are special. You are full of love. You are interesting. You are needed. You are heard. You are felt. You are understood.
You hear. You feel. You understand. You are loved. You love. You are special. Read it all again, slowly, and feel the love.
Now, reflect: Do you feel the expansion? Do you feel the beauty? Do you feel the colors? Do you feel the connection to yourself?
Stay with it. In this positivity is where we become flexible, and growth happens.
Next, contrast that to reading and experiencing negativity.
Do you notice how the expansion shrinks? How the focus narrows on the negative? How our focus turns only on getting rid of that negativity? In this negativity is where we become rigid, and either fight or flight happens.
You can’t fully choose when you experience positivity or negativity, but you can choose your environment and some of your reactions. Based on your experiences, you can optimize for positivity.
You don’t have full control over it, but with the power that you do have, how do you use it? And, knowing this, in what ways can you let some positivity in yourself?
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