Looking back 6 months, 2013 has been quite the epic new beginning for me.
If it was anything to be able to pinpoint it on I’d say it was the beautiful , simple one word : POSITIVITY
Now according to the Oxford dictionary it is ‘a desirable or constructive quality or attribute:take your weaknesses and translate them into positives.” That aside yes that is absolutely true, but I’d like to think of it as more of ‘a number greater than zero.’ Why?
“It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions”
Where do I start? Well, when 2012 ended, I felt like my life had equated to a big fat Zero. In short, I had a relationship break down, where I had moved country, gave up my career, sold what I had and shipped my life in one suitcase to the far corners of Western Australia. The only constant in my life , that I knew for sure, was that I never really knew through out my life where I would end up. I was always the adventurous sort , never saying no to a good opportunity to do something different or interesting.
In all, I still have no regrets and like someone told me, ‘Claire, what is great about you, is that you do things with an open heart and that is more courage than most people , so live with no regrets.” That statement begun my journey of Positivity.
I lay, face down in a massage bed looking down at at bowl of flowers in Bali, how could I have ever thought that my life equated to that Zero. I was born into a life with family and friends who loved me, were always there for me and I had never, ever had a number less than zero.In fact, I know it will always be ∞ .
“Whenever you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right”
My point is, though I had never read the book ‘The secret’ by Rhonda Byrne, I had heard many times from friends who had read it , that if you Think Negative thoughts, then you will attract Negative energy. So for the first time in my life, I let go of all my inhibitions, worry and lived. Not the way that some of you may think i.e. staying up to ludicrous hours of the morning getting absolutely smashed. No.
I channelled my energy into being thankful for those around me, and into something that has always been a huge part of my life, in the forefront of my list of passions :Fitness. I have added a few more things on to that list since, but that’ll be for another time.
In all, people are surprised how fast I bounced back and I realised how much we as humans discredit ourselves for our strength. I never knew the strength that lay within me to be who I am. I am still coming to terms with how easy it can be, but it can be for you and for anyone else.
There are so many other things I could share, but I will leave you with a powerful thought about CHANGE.
You have the power to do it.
“That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson)
CLAIRE LOUISE JEDREK