How do we rise above the fray?

Negative headspace generated by anything can pull us down, contributing to fatigue and inaction.

I was already tired from two early morning ER visits from the week before, (my sweetheart’s new hip is fine, thanks), when I gladly supported a friend as they shared a challenging and dark period in their life. To add to the negative karma, I checked the world news before officially starting with my day’s activities.

How was I supposed to buzz around, preparing for my sweetheart’s birthday dinner party at our house, when I lacked the energy or enthusiasm to even leave my chair?

Straighten the house, clean the kitchen, prep ingredients, make things look festive and birthday party ready? In what universe?

Where was the forward motion going to come from?

I had none.

Zero. Zip. Zilch.

Wait.

I know this one!

What am I always telling others? Right after, “pull the string”?

“Your mind believes what you tell it.”

What was I telling myself that day?

That I was beat. I felt like staying in my chair. I was discouraged, not only by world news and what my friend had endured, but also my inability to get going – in the face of being the hostess to a birthday dinner party in seven hours.

Pity party – poor me.

Clearly, those were the wrong messages. There was nothing in those thoughts that would build me up.

After reluctantly getting up from my chair, I said, “yes.” A very feeble, “yes.”  Not a, “YESSSS!”

Not yet; but, I persisted.

Pulling that string for all it was worth, I said out loud, “YES!” I put one foot in front of the other.

One small task on the back of another small task. “Yes.”

After a while, I threw in a half-hearted, limp smile. “Yes.”

Another small task.

“Yes,” with a better smile.

Pausing in the bathroom, which I was making sure was clean, I faked a real toothy smile while looking in the mirror, “Yes!”

Whoa! Did you catch that energy?

Gradually, over the course of the next hour, I was transformed from giving a lackluster, “yes,” while faking a smile, to finally feeling it.

“YESSS!”

My mind believes what I tell it.

My mind believed what I told it.

Rather than a whole routine of affirmations – remember, no energy – all I could muster was one simple word. Yes.

Yes, I could do this. Yes, I color how I feel. Yes, I am in control.

You know what?

It was a great birthday dinner party, and I had limitless energy to enjoy it!

In health that can be born from a weak, “yes.” –

Deidre

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