So this week I have been looking into keeping a positive vybe. Because even when we know how to get there, its not always the easiest to stay there! Life happens, we get caught up in old feelings, and there we go-out of abundance again. I came across a little trick. It seems easy enough. I started implementing it and guess what?! It does seem to have some power!

We can be having the best day ever and one single thing can change it all. Sometimes the “thing” is big and sometimes its only big to you but the problem is the same. Why do we go from 100 to zero in about 5 seconds? So my thought is, if we can go down in vibrations within a 5 second period, shouldn’t we then be able to do the opposite? That’s were this little trick comes in.

So when your having a great day, or even a lousy day-here is my tip for you. SMILE…..I tried it and it does actually has an initial relaxation feeling. They say to keep smiling but I found, personally that if I smile for just a few seconds and then release, smile again for another few moments, and so on…It really has the power to change your thought process and bring it into a positive vibration. If not just for the action, but for the thoughts that start to interrupt your negative ones. (thoughts like: I bet these people next to me think I’m psychotic!) Positivity starts leaking out into the dark and before you realize it, you are sending higher vibrations with increased positive emotions. It really is amazing-the power of the smile. Not to mention the smile you are giving other people-weve heard over and over the power of the smile. I knew it was good for others but I did not realize the effects on yourself-using it!

I never thought of it as an emotion/thought changing tool. I thought the smile was mainly for others benefit. You know, a way to change the moods of others around you, help make their day a little brighter…The saying that making others happy makes you happy too, has a lot to do with the simple smile!

SMILE everyone!

Have you ever wondered why you long for that perfect partner, that trim- fit body, the financial ability to do what you want? Because all these things are your birthright! We just get in our own way of having them. Although our childhood may bring fond memories it also brings limitations and misbeliefs in ourselves that we don’t even know are there. They are called limiting beliefs and we hold them so close for so long, they become nested into our subconscious. Unknowingly we will stop short, sabotage, and sometimes even completely ignore our birthright.

My gratitude journal is one of those simple ring binder journals. With or without lines is really up to you. If you are a doodling enthusiast you might go without lines! Besides gratitudes, I often find myself filling up pages to the margins with to-do’s, doodlings, and ideas for posts. I usually go through a binder every month because I end up including more then just my daily gratitudes! Nothing is more compelling to keeping a high vibration then keeping a gratitude journal. When you are feeling blue, GIVE. When you are feeling unworthy, GIVE. When you feel stuck, GIVE……Its not just giving your money that causes a high vibration, but your time. Tell me when the last time you gave some time to someone and felt shitty about it? NEVER!!!

There are millions of tips out there on how to keep your mental vibration high, your anxiety low, and thoughts positive, on a thousand different sites. What I want to invite you to consider today is something just a little different – something that I discovered while on my self help journey.

Who me? Optimized? My history might tell you otherwise! Do you find it hard not to judge yourself everyday? Do you find that you are harder on yourself then you are on others? Are you giving yourself a hard time for not getting all your to-do’s done today? One way to stay in your happy place and have a high vibration is to stop judging yourself. You should be your own best friend and encourage yourself on the daily. When you are constantly judging yourself you are not optimizing the outcomes of your life. You want optimization? STOP judging!