What's the Message? Introduction to Creating a Positive Mindset

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

                                                                             -Norman Vincent Peale

Maintaining a positive state of mind can be challenging in today’s society. Messages of destruction, despair, and injustice are abundant.  They can be found in the written and spoken word and in images real or imagined.  We take in information and our brain processes it whether or not we are conscious of it, so that the very first step toward creating a more positive mindset is to increase awareness.  Just as it is important to be aware of the food we put into our bodies to digest, it is equally important to be aware of what kind of ‘food’ we allow our brains to digest. 

In the next few weeks we will explore how to create a more positive mindset using the following approach:

1.       Increasing awareness of when our brain is receiving negative and disempowering messages.

2.       Limiting the amount of negative messages we are exposed to throughout the day.

3.       Consciously ‘feeding’ our brains positive and empowering messages.

In the next chapter, we will look at ways to increase our awareness and be more present.