How Can You Keep Positive When You Don't Feel It...

Tips for Keeping Positive for Your Health

We've been told that our being idle or depressed puts us in the vicious cycle of sickness (emotional and physical).

Some day, weeks or months can be tougher than others can even be an understatement. Sometimes we are jammed and have to "wait out the storm", it may be out of our hands.

Here are a few tips to keep you feeling better and moving in a positive direction.

Take some time to write down things you've always wanted to do but didn't have the time. For me, it's studying, building new things (see the gong in the photo, I built the stand for that-instead of doing my tax papers), working out, and traveling. But I still have issues getting motivated. I write the things that motivate me on a mirror in the bathroom with a dry-erase marker if I am slacking on getting started. Where are you likely to see your reminders?

I'm a travel agent and I constantly study about health to improve with my profession, so I am always daydreaming of our next vacation and trying to add a class into that location. I am really unmotivated when it comes to financial paperwork, by the way, that's where the idea for this blog came from. I'm having trouble getting started today. Thanks for allowing me to write to get motivated.

My reward is usually any of the above to stay focused on a daunting task or having my head spinning with issues that are out of my control for now.

What is something you wanted to do as a child?

• Play an instrument

• A fun sport

• Improve your handwriting

• Paint

• Draw

• Garden

• Juggling

• Learn Magic

Make a list of things you've thought of in passing but never have time for-here are some ideas

• Go through old photos and make a photo book (Snapfish etc)

• Improve your health by making changes in your nutrition (do a learning about sugar challenge, make new recipes)

• Meditate-Click here for great ideas on fun meditations that aren't what you traditionally think of

• Write or read a blog a day

• Listen to a podcast a day (ex. Mind, Body, Business Collective and Mike Rowe)

• Pick one area of your house to organize

• Pick up exercising-click here for some great live online classes

• Garden

• Write down your family's favorite recipes

• Plan a trip! Even if you can't go yet, plan it, and do a virtual tour of where you want to go.

• Make a list of dream travel locations

Take some time to build these new ideas into your schedule, sprinkle them in either before or after times that you know you may be down. If you have a daunting task you don't want to do, use these as a reward when you are done. If it works better for you to use one of these to get up in the morning or to get motivated. Feel free to reach out to use with things that work for you at 240 903- 0980 or if you’d like to book a session.

In Health and Wellness,
Michelle S Krause LMT
Owner of Vital Fitness Holistic Center

www.vitalfitnessholisticcenter.com

Current Ethics and Standards Committee for the National Board of Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers

Former President of the Severna Park/Baltimore Holistic Chamber of Commerce, AMTA of Maryland New Member Committee Chair and Board Member