stay positive

Feelings bounce up and down. When I see hubby again, I’ll be happy. Then he’ll leave for AZ a few days later, and I’ll be sad again. It goes up, it goes down. The only thing that helps is just to focus on my breathing.

This week I am going to:
Stop getting mad for no reason
Remember how lucky I am
Appreciate what I have
Stop worrying about the future

I found myself feeling better about Monday by referring to it as Magical Monday. Each person in my family was to tell something magical about the day at dinner. We tried Terrific Tuesday, Wonderful Wednesday, Thrilling Thursday, and Friendly Friday. Silly, I know, but it did keep me focused on fun things each day.

I had to speak to each member of my family the other day about negative chatter and complaining and lack of confidence. I explained that their complaining and whining about life in general was beginning to really effect me and I just didn’t want to hear it anymore. They agreed that much of it is habit rather than that life is miserable. Life isn’t miserable, life is good and getting better. We all agreed to work on the negative words and tone of our conversations.

I shall reflect on the positive aspects of today which I am grateful for. When I rise I will be positive to start my day by listing 5 things to which I am grateful for.

It’s very hard to stay positive or even be positive when shit is just not going right. I try on a daily basis to fight off depression and depressive thoughts and to think positively is very hard but I am waiting for something positive to come from this site.

I just can’t seam to stay positive, negativity seams to jump into my head and I can’t get the negative thoughts out quick enough.

Stress creates such negativity. I have stressful things happening in my life right now – don’t we all. And sometimes I just let it eat into my soul and make me sad, unhappy, negative, and sometimes suicidal. Thousands of people who have come before me in time have had to deal with worse situations than I have now, yet, I feel so defeated sometimes. Doint the things I know to do to relieve my stress sometimes just are not powerful enough for the negativity I feel.

thanks

Good idea!