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Motivation: The Affirmation

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By Sam Ibraham

Take a deep breath in and out, you have just completed yet another day successfully?

The answer is Yes! and although it has been a tough day you are now at the end of it.

In our day as professionals, mothers/fathers/stay at home caregivers/students/prospective workers we forget something very important…..self affirmation and self care.  We are quick to offer advise, encouragement, and affirmation to others but what about ourselves.  Staying motivated also involves an element of self-care.  You give and you must also receive. The channels by which you receive is different for everyone. Some from your spouse or partner, your family, friends, co-workers or just your community. These are important however they do not replace your intrinsic need to self-nurture.  Let’s reflect for a short time on your daily routines. Your morning coffee/breakfast/newspaper.  You rush to appointments/commitments for family, children and life in general. Missing something…..?  Where are you in this equation?  How many times have you stopped at the end of the day first to ask yourself, how did I do today?  then to reflect on what you did today and thank yourself for a job well done.  There are those of your who will undermine yourselves and say my job is not important, my position is not important, my status is not important. Get into the habit of correcting yourself and replacing “my job is not… my position is not… my status is not…..”  for “You have come through another successful day and completed it, congratulations”.  This is beyond the power of positive thinking and beyond a “pat on the back”.

This brain is an ever complex, multi-sensory, multi-functional organ that commands every thought and physiological and psychological process in your body. It is a complex processing and multi co-ordinated center of neural networks that act and re-act from stimulus.  What you feed this brain of your is what it will continue to process and react with.  Like anything in the body it must be trained, conditioned and cared for.  Part of your self care involves feeding your brain with realistic messaging that we often take for granted, even if this means the obvious.  Replacing what you do instinctively (negatively) as part of our human process and how I have mentioned in previous blogs and recognizing what was real, for example the successful end to your day.  We thrive on rewards systems, recognition and motivational feedback mechanisms. One of the most important processes is recognizing everything you have done in a day, even if it is obvious or rudimentary.  Your job now is to put thought into action.  To your health and wellness, until next time.

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