How to end your day in a "Light Mindset", Everyday!

Hello lovely humans! 

So this week's blog is going to be really awesome I hope for some of you who are looking for some guidance on this particular topic. After a long day during the work week, sometimes we get so caught up in our own stress that we end up having a worse night mentally and emotionally than we really need to have. Trust me, this has happened to me more times than you know. The negative energies that sometimes cloud our minds and try to dictate how our days play out tend to take over quite easily if something stressful happened or if our energies in general are low. But we all have the ABILITY by using activities that reset our mindset in a sense, to FIGHT these negative energies. It's honestly a pretty amazing thing! So I am going to share with you simple steps that work for me all the time when I feel tempted to let my afternoon and night-time experience take a negative turn due to life's unpredictable events. So here is what works for me, and hopefully will work for you too! 

 Do something that makes you feel accomplished, and do that FIRST. 

After a hectic day, it's definitely a struggle to want to continue to work hard and be productive. But, accomplishing personal goals stimulates our minds to feel good about ourselves and active, and it's better to be active before we start to wind down for the day and feel relaxed. Just letting ourselves feel rewarded for making a small accomplishment is enough to boost our light energy and remind ourselves that we are special and capable despite our stress level. So accomplish something small! DON'T over-do it, though and this is key. If you are reading a book, finish that chapter. Do that work out even if you initially feel low energy and don't want to. Work a little bit on that assignment that's due. You don't have to fully finish a task, but do something to at least make you feel that sense of accomplishment, even the smallest accomplishment counts! For me, I usually work on editing my videos and blogging, of course. 

Do something silly! 

What is better for fighting off negative energy than accessing our silly, carefree, child-like parts of our souls? We all have them, but in times of stress they can almost be locked away in our minds and temporarily forgotten. The keyword here is temporary! The best way to access them is to give ourselves permission to be silly. Dance around to a song you like even if you aren't a good dancer! I don't know, play with some goofy snap chat filters. Watch a funny show. Or have a photoshoot with your dog and reenact the opening of the Lion King....you know, stuff like that. Guys, I'm very strange. But I find ways to entertain myself and the easiest way to access your light energy and start fighting off those negative vibes is to give yourself permission to let down your walls, and simply not care for awhile! So go have fun, my lovely friends, and play a little! 

Do a project, get creative with your surroundings. 

Reorganizing your personal space or changing your surroundings can do SO MUCH for resetting your mindset. When things feel "same old, same old", you can start to feel negative about your surroundings and therefore your life without even realizing it. I always find that brainstorming creative ways to improve my living space helps me feel refreshed, inspired and just in general giddy. It also once again, enforces a sense of accomplishment! So re-organize your room or apartment. Draw a picture and hang it on the wall. Even just cleaning your room up a little bit can make a difference, and help you feel like you have a fresh start, even if it isn't a new day yet. I had the most fun ever hanging up pictures on my wall from my old house I lived in at college in my current room, and hanging up these twinkle lights I bought. I also re-organized my entire bookshelf and got rid of the stuff I never use anymore. Seriously maybe I had a little bit too much fun, but I will tell you guys that every time I turn these lights on I kind of do a little happy dance. Do something new to make you feel refreshed and just in general...happy! 

RELAX. Treat yourself you lovely human being! 

YOU DESERVE to feel relaxed and rejuvenated after a long day. I don't usually take bubble baths, but I chose to recently and trust me I did NOT regret it. (Lavender is extremely soothing at the end of a long day by the way, and helps you get into that sleepy mindset which is great for me considering I'm a major insomniac.) But anyway, do something super duper ultra relaxing that maybe you have never done for yourself in the past! There is nothing wrong with pampering yourself when it comes to relaxing the mind, body and spirit. We tend to always think that we need some kind of special occasion in order to pamper ourselves, but when it comes to taking a hot bath, a nice long shower, sitting under a heated blanket, listening to soothing music, you name it, we can do that every night if we want to! I haven't taken a bubble bath in a long time and I felt so refreshed and almost a little bit "little kid silly" afterwards, because it was just nice! It was nice to have "me" time, and just time to sit there and think in an extremely relaxed and private setting. We don't give ourselves permission to have that kind of relaxation on a weekly basis all the time, and it's something that could really improve our moods and mindset and it's also not something we need to earn. It's something we always deserve! 

Do Something deeply rooted in your Soul. 

At the end of the day, after you've done your relaxing and pampering activity, gotten your projects done, had some fun and followed all of these steps, end the day by doing something true to you. Do something that you LOVE, that always has and always will make you happy as a person. (Now if that is intense exercise or something active, obviously maybe choose a slightly less active passion to choose to wind down the night with), but make sure that you do this activity when you are in a relaxed state of mind, your light energy has already been heightened due to all of the previous steps you've completed, and you don't have anything else stressful to worry about for the remainder of the night. Only you know in your heart and soul what makes you feel happy, comfortable, inspired and simply well, true to who YOU are and what your heart beats for! If you don't know right away what that is, I guarantee if you take a few minutes to sit there and think about it, that it will come to you. I end each of my days meditating before bed. It depends on the night how deep I go. Sometimes I do an intense chanting mediation, other nights I want to be a bit more physical and do something more yoga and movement based, and some nights I just want to be a "sleepyhead" and I focus on guided bed-time meditation. Either way, spirituality, imagination and energies has always been something I felt deeply passionate about, affected by and drawn to. So figure out what that thing is for you, and end your day doing it! You can read, you can write music, you can play music, you can draw, even cook, write down your thoughts, do some research on a favorite subject, talk to a significant other, I can go on and on. But I can't tell YOU what your soul activity is, only you can do that! And I believe in you that you can figure it out! :) 

So those are my steps to fighting off all the negativity and ending each day in a place of light! I really hope that by sharing what honestly has saved my life many times, and I'm not really exaggerating, can resonate with and help some of you if you ever feel stuck in a negative pattern that you feel that you can't get out of. Trust me loves, you ALWAYS can. Take is from me. A simple change of routine, types of activities chosen, and therefore rewiring of the mind with no more effort than choosing to light up the soul a bit, can BREAK that pattern. It's that simple, it's that good for you and honestly....it's that fun! 

Stay Lovely,

Kelly 

:)