Thriving Magazine, May 2022, Issue 11

Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow. Choose the kind of person you want to be today and think about how a successful day feels to you.

LIFESTYLE MEDICINE MONTHLY CHALLENGE Eachmonth our Thrive teamembarks on a challenge to improve our own health and wellness. We invite you to join us on our collective wellness journey.

Visualize your ideal day and give yourself a pep talk. While we can’t predict the future, we can create it.

Identify how you will know, at the end of the day, if your day was successful.

“Your mind is the garden, your thoughts are the seeds. The harvest can either be flowers or weeds.” WILLIAMWORDSWORTH

It’s okay to think about a situation that might trip you up today, and think about how your best self could deal with it.

Tend to the Garden of Your Mind Our Lifestyle Medicine challenge this month is to use the first 30-to-60 minutes after waking to water, fertilize and weed your mind garden.

MORNINGS are a great time to prime subconscious patterns that can help us thinkmore positively, heal more completely, and accomplishmore throughout the day. Is your typical morning hitting the snooze button multiple times, lethargically walking, mindlessly scrolling through social media, checking emails, and/or worrying about your day?

When gardening daily, you can more easily pull out weeds while they’re still small and manageable. Think of deadheading and pruning a garden. Clear away old, exhausted thought patterns that aren’t helping you create a thriving life and nurture new growth into blossoming.

The way we choose to use our words, can improve the neuro functioning of the brain. We have to continue to exercise the language centers of the brain to help us intentionally renew or reframe old or negative thought patterns. The language we speak around our circumstances shapes our daily behaviors. The right words, spoken in the right way can bring us hope, healing, inspiration, love, gratitude and motivation. Recite declarative sentences, affirmations and incantations. Declare the outcome you are heading towards.

The purpose of this challenge is tominimize these kinds of morning habits and, rather, use our mornings to set ourselves up to thrive during the day.

Choose. Your. Words.

Listen to how you talk to yourself and distinguish negative thought patterns like hopelessness, helplessness, overwhelming yourself, jumping to conclusions, self-labeling, undervaluing progress you’ve made, perfectionism, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of disapproval and criticism, coercion and resentment, low frustration tolerance, guilt or self-blame…

Practice being still and silent.

Quiet time is important for you to observe what’s happening

Visualize all that you want in your life. Your morning practice may include reciting positive affirmations, spiritual verses, declaring your vision for the day, goals you are working to achieve, and focusing on creating the person that can achieve those goals.

with your mind and learn to recognize a bad seed from a good one.

Quiet time may look like meditation, deep breathing exercises, diving into reflection with a spiritual devotional or journaling. A key principle during quiet time is to not judge

I choose to stop limiting myself with untrue beliefs.

I am getting better and better every day.

I am open and receptive to all the healing and goodness that is available tome.

your thoughts and inner voice. Your inner voice is constantly talking about everything and often repeats old thought patterns. If you can just raise your awareness to your inner voice, and stop assessing and judging your thoughts, you can open the door to possibilities.

My bodymoves with ease and I am full of vitality.

I feel in perfect health.

I am resilient and getting stronger and stronger each day.

I am healingmore and more each day.

Where attention goes, energy flows. What we dwell upon will shape our lives. As you become more mindful and careful about what you are feeding your mind, you can shape your destiny.

We have to put effort into training our mental muscles just like we have to with our physical muscles. Mornings are a great time of day to work those muscles to set your day up for success.

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