Do you wake up feeling low: Here's how to change it

Do you ever wake up in the morning feeling low?
Are you always struggling with your mind to get into a positive state?

Our minds can be pretty funky places at times.... And it if occurs often enough (we feel flat every day), it can become a habit.    When we feel low, everything feels bad.   Our body tends to have more pain and tension, our diet deteriorates, the day at work seems harder, the verbal dialogue goes around and round, we beat ourselves up and stop being fun to be around.

The trick to changing this is to change our thinking.    (After all it is the one thing we do have control over).   

We all get a bit flat at times, and I am no exception.    One morning I got the idea to rev up through using affirmations (this has always worked for me in the past), so I took a look on internet to find some fresh ideas.   I came across a talk by Abraham Hicks on called "The Easiest Way to Start Positive Momentum".   It was a great talk, and I want to summarise it for you in this blog.

Esther Hicks and Louise Hay both say that using affirmations help shift our mental state and reality, but unless we get into a positive feeling state, affirmations do not work.    Let me give you an example.    You own a heater.   You know it gives you warmth.   But it only works when you turn the power on.    Likewise with affirmations, they only work when we have a strong positive emotional feeling behind them.   The emotional power literally turns the affirmations on.

So if you wake up and invest emotional energy into self talk about how flat you feel, that is what you will get - a bad day.   If you wake up and invest your energy is a "rev up" pep talk with positive emotional energy behind it, then your day will be much better.

The easiest way to do this is to make yourself a recording of your affirmations when you are in a good mood and play it to yourself first thing in the morning.  Leave enough space between each affirmation to repeat it, and remember to get into the feeling - like you already have it.   BE excited!  

I have one below which you can download.    

Abraham Hicks says best way to start your 'rev up talk" is with something general.    
What do you appreciate right now?    Think of all the things that are easy to appreciate. 
Think generally:   your body, your home, your comfy warm bed, food in your cupboards, a hot shower...
Then go out into the community:  people at the bank, your friends, the library service, the supermarket...
Then globally:  the electricity to your house, the roads...
Take a moment to appreciate the wellbeing of the people around you.   People who inspire you.
You could compare yourself with all the people who live in other places, and appreciate where you live and what you are accomplishing right now

GOOD VIBES ATTRACT GOOD VIBES
When you can put a good, excited, happy, uplifting feeling into your words/appreciation, this puts power into them.   Often we let our good feeling go, and slump back down to apathy.   So set an alarm in your phone a couple of times a day to remind you to lift your vibe again.

Abraham Hicks says the next step is to receive what comes your way.   Allow yourself to go with the flow.   Let your positive vibes carry you along throughout your day.  We all know how good it is to be around someone who has these vibes.   You can be like that too.   People sense this - they will want to help and support you.   

It takes commitment to keep picking yourself up and getting into a positive vibe.   But ask yourself:  which mouth do you want to feed?  The happy one or the sad one?  

One day is not enough to break a habit, but one week can start showing you some positive results.    It takes about 28 days to change a habit, and probably 3 months to have it embedded into your system    Practice pays off!    

If you would like a recording to use to rev up your day: click here and download it to your ipod/mp3 player.

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