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Change Your Focus
I spent last week working at a spa in Mexico called Rancho La Puerta. (If you've been to The Ranch, email me!) I love teaching coaching classes, hiking, eating vegetables, sleeping, hip-hop dancing and doing sound healing.
I arrived depleted. Exhausted. Anxious. (Can you relate?)
I left hopeful. Calm. Renewed. (You can have this, too without crossing a border or buying anything.)
How can you duplicate this transformation from the comfort of your couch and neighborhood?
Here's what you do: Change what you pay attention to. Decide what you want to make real in your life. What do you talk about? What do you notice? What do you think about? What do you do with your time?
If the answer to those questions is worry, read news, and check items off your to-do list…well…how do those things affect your inner landscape? For many of you, those things equal stress.
Changing your focus is easy:
- talk about something you love
- spend time in an interesting conversation
- take your headphones out and listen to the birds on your dog walk
- cook tasty food
- call an old friend
- find what's right in the people and situations in your life rather than what's wrong
You have more power than you realize to determine your daily experiences. Tune your awareness and suddenly, you'll see that a beautiful reality exists alongside the ugly one. The beautiful reality is just as real (and maybe more real) than the stressed-out one.
Be well and have a good weekend.