Positivity missing from the world? The feel good factor on the run? Not at all!!! Read these five to get your own spirits firmly lifted on a daily basis.
1. Spend time with Children Children have an inbuilt ability to enjoy the NOW. What they are doing they are totally immersed in with happy faces and spirited behaviour. When they do this they are contagious.You just gotta smile, laugh and come alive in the same way. So have fun with them and they will share with you this superduper happy world they live in and you’ll soon be infected. Time spent with our young re-connects us all to living for laughing with fun first over fear.
2. Let the Games begin! Current life on earth is a hard, stressful experience for many from one bill to another, uncertainty to uncertainty, and worry upon worry. Give your brain and body a holiday for a while as there is nothing to be gained in worrying and fretting but plenty to please in kicking leaves in the park, playing board games with the family, having a fancy dress evening or old classics like hide and seek or marbles. Simple games, big chilling out. Try it and see. Do them often and make that your regular game plan!
3. Natural Nature In short, get outside. The natural world is good for you, calming and beautiful all year round and it’s free!!
The happiest, most relaxed individuals all cite that they commune regularly with nature. So why not do the same? And as you do not only will you see more gorgeous things but you will begin to feel more gorgeous too. Mother Nature loves all of us, her family, equally, so try and visit her more often. She’s a real breath of fresh air!
4. No News IS Good News It’s truly amazing how many people watch the news on TV and expect to feel good afterwards or not feel bothered. There is nothing of much good here. Every sensationalist story is done to death from every negative ( and often non-factual ) angle the media can manage. Simply switch off the news and you will switch off your concerns at the same time. What you don’t get told can’t influence your pysche. Read a good, inspirational book. Take a long soak in the bath at newstime with your favourite music or watch comedy and find an altogether better place. One where peace of mind does exist.
5. Slow Down Stress has a speed. It’s quick, fast-paced and accelerates. It’s helped on its way by how we fly about at breakneck speed on modern Planet Earth with minds that race and race and then burnout. With such exhausting treadmill living little wonder that we are called The Human Race!!! If that represents your life then beware. Tv adverts say slow down as people die at 40. Yes, 40mph but increasingly 40 years of age too. The faster you go as the faster the years pass means risking heading for breakdown as pressures pile-up. Be too impatient and you will end up an in-patient. It’s no surprise that in the natural world the species that live the slowest live the longest. Slow down and wise up. Slow down, take it easier and be there longer for and with those you love and who love you.
5 steps for 1 life. Your life. Any life. You only get one. Find the feel good stuff and you’ll blossom and bloom for many a year. Push yourself hard or worry you way through the years then one day it’s all going to catch up with you. Practice funshine in the sunshine because feeling good never felt so good. The sun will shine, the birds will sing, children will laugh and life will go on. Make that your life too. Feel good my friend.
