Begin Today to Focus on Shifting Your Patterns of Thinking

Begin Today to Focus on Shifting Your Patterns of Thinking

Celebrate and love yourself for how far you have come. Celebrate both you and every step you have taken to this point on your journey. Celebrate how much you have learned from the things that did and did not go as planned.

How?

Neuroplasticity

By acknowledging your strengths and victories you rewire your brain to accept your capabilities and successes. Your brain changes with your experiences. It creates new neural pathways that are strengthened every time they are repeated. This is called neuroplasticity. The stronger the pathway, the more it shapes what you believe about what you can and cannot do and your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

With conscious awareness and repetition we strengthen new neural pathways.

You can begin today to focus on shifting your patterns of thinking. You can keep this small promise to yourself to stay mindful of your thinking and aware of what you are reinforcing within yourself as you go about living your life.

What did you do already today that you are grateful for? Can you use this knowledge and awareness to extend compassion and love toward yourself? The more you repeat this pattern, the more it becomes second nature to accept yourself exactly as you are.


 "I am present and I accept myself exactly as I am."

This means also maintaining awareness of when you are rejecting yourself.  If you look in the mirror, for instance, and focus on what you perceive as imperfections, it is a powerful moment to strengthen the new neural pathways that enable you to celebrate yourself instead. Take a private moment with yourself, put your hands on your heart and say:

"I am present and I accept myself exactly as I am."