Mind Matters

“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never harm me...”

I guess this saying is very much on my mind today as my oldest son, Calvin, broke his collar bone on Friday and had to have surgery to have it reattached.

I don’t know about you, but I certainly recited this saying numerous times as a child, even though I found the meaning hard to digest. We all know that bones heal very well, but the unkind words told to us, seem to putrefy and fester, causing bitterness, resentment and undealt with emotional pain that remains encoded in our every cell, causing bones to grow crooked and cancerous tumours to develop.

Have you noticed that we are our own worst critics? Why do we do it to ourselves? Why do we continually knock ourselves down and tear ourselves apart?

Those negative thoughts actually affect our brain chemicals, which in turn affect our hormones, which affect our bodies’ mineral levels, which affect our bones and muscles, in fact every single tissue and cell in our bodies.

Negative thoughts or stress creates an acidic environment in our bodies that disease thrives on.

So, do you see, we actually have another very important reason to love ourselves and mind our self-talk. We need to manage our self-talk and start exercising our minds with daily positive affirmations. These affirmations are as important or rather more important than taking our daily supply of vitamins.

Heathy Mind = Healthy Body

Our bodies really are a reflection of our minds.

So let’s take a really good look at ourselves in the mirror and observe. We are all that we’ve got.

We are all going to die, we have that in common. And when we do, we get to take no earthly possessions with us.

Our bodies are aging, we all have that in common too. No amount of botox or age delaying surgery can reverse this fact. So the cold fact is this: We do not own our possessions or our bodies. They are temporary.

Let’s look deeper...

We don’t possess friends. We like to think we do, but all friends are with us just for a season.

Face it! We are all that we’ve got. We are our own best friend. There is no one who was with us at birth and has been with us right through until death. It is only us, ourselves. There is no one who will ever be more constant, more present or there for us, than ourselves.

Therefore we need to be loyal to ourselves. We need to be our own teachers, gurus, confidantes and our own special friends.

There is no one to blame if we feel sad, alone or depressed. We need to self-heal, self-love ourselves better. The onus rests on us.

So before we rush out and blame others who criticise us, let’s spring clean our house and turn over a new leaf and make it our priority to say positive, meaningful, uplifting thoughts to ourselves every day.

Here goes:

I love myself

I am my own best friend

I am loyal

I am perfect just the way I am

I am beautiful

Happy creating your own special affirmations and until next week