Feeling Good: A Decision

Feeling good is a decision. Just like any other. You decide to feel the feeling you want to feel. No, it's not always easy. It takes discipline and determination to stay on track with this. But you are essentially in charge.

There are people walking through life right now deciding that everything that they ever experienced in life good or bad happened "to them." When you decide to have those thoughts that things happen "to you" then you lose all levels of control over your own existence. Yes, ok, if you prescribe to Gabrielle Bernstein, "The Universe has your back" belief then maybe this sounds a little crazy. I prescribe to this belief as well, but I also know that my power is in my mind and what I choose to believe the Universe will support me even if my belief is negative.

Instead, try this. When something happens, instead of thinking the universe has a vendetta against you, maybe the Universe has a message for you. Maybe the message is hidden, but I promise you it's there. You can choose to think that the event occurred "to you" or that the event occurred "for you". Now, when you think it occurred "for you" all of a sudden you take your reaction choice back into your own hands. All of a sudden you control how you feel about it. It's the difference between two different phrases: "to me" versus "for me". In one you have no choice, while the second you have all the choice.

So now that you have a choice in all situations, you can imagine that no matter the circumstance you can feel positively or negatively. It's your choice to do so. Try it out. See how it feels. The next event or circumstance that occurs did it happen "to you" or "for you"? Did that perspective shift the way in which you felt about the situation?

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"You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are." ~ Melissa Ethridge

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Journal to Feel Good

Here are some journal prompts that will help you to readjust your thinking and get yourself back to feeling good. Making this part of your daily practice you can start to see some major shifts in the way in which you show up for yourself in order to make decisions and feel good. This is part of my daily practice, I thought I'd share it with you.

Begin by writing the way you feel about a certain situation, the way in which it happened "to you"...

Next, think about how this situation happened for you...

Think about ways you might think about this same situation in the future...