“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale

There is no amount of preaching that I can do to impress you with how important this concept is.  Your world is that space that immediately surrounds you.  People can escape their world by reading thrilling novels, watching soap operas, listening to the news or any number of things.

The point is that if you allow your world to be limited by your feelings of sadness or frustration, sadness and frustration will continue.  When you open your mind to look for the positive, you allow change to enter your world.

Some people love to be negative, well maybe they don’t actually love it but they sure perpetuate it!  Why is that?  I think the answer is different for each person.  What I have found in my experience is that being negative is secure.  It is comfortable.  It reassures you that you have an answer to all of the bad stuff that is happening to you. 

When you choose to let some of that go, knowing you don’t want to let it all go at once…that is too scary J… you open yourself up to an unknown feeling.  If you can’t run back to what was secure, what do you use to fill up that void?

Start with picturing yourself in a peaceful surrounding.  Reassure yourself that the peace you are looking for is possible.  When you are called to “action” by the person you care for, and you feel knots in your stomach because in your mind the tape that plays is, “here we go again,” make up something funny.  Do it like this:

Patient:  “Hurry up and come here, I need you to get me ________ (fill in the blank)”

You:  (in your head)…Isn’t that sweet, they need me…and smile to yourself when you say that.

If you can lower your anxiety level when those moments occur, you will be on your way to developing a greater sense of calm. 

Remember that this takes time.  Find a smile.  Let’s decide how to support you!  Join the Sallycares.com Family today!  We look forward to hearing from you! “Now, let’s get going!”  xo Sally