Mindful Montana Wellness

Habit number six of the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People Seeking Synergy is the process of making my way and your way our way for a great end result.

Habit number 5 in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Seek First to Understand and Then to be Understood is the pathway to deeper listening and understanding in all our relationships.

The fourth habit in the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People Think Win Win is about cooperation, mutual benefit, and being able to consider and actually be inclusive of the ideas and feelings of others.

Habit number three of the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People Put First Things First is all about aligning your life's mission statement with your actions.

To achieve a state of mutual benefit we must be able to hear the other side of the story.

Putting first things first is about what is most important and aligns with your goals, beliefs and values.

You are the architect of your own life start building your personal mission statement today.

Instead of responding to events or people choose to be proactive.

Growth can be painful but to thrive growth is necessary.

Fear can be disguised as many other emotions and the responses to fear can control your life.

Regrets serve one purpose in life and that is to learn, grow, know better, do better.

In the age of nonstop information, we can choose to be informed or overloaded.

Focusing your goals through writing can lead to new habits, new successes and a new you.

Some battles are worth fighting and some we should let go.  Choose wisely to find a better you.

Traumatic memories cannot be erased but we can learn to live better with them.

Helpful management tools to calm your worries and fears.

In our lives, everything is a choice even if we do not realize it or accept it.  We have the option to do or do not with every choice, but sometimes we do not have the emotional capacity to see beyond the grey areas of trauma and automatic conditioned responses.

Many people with a past history of childhood trauma experience codependency both as a child and also as an adult.  It can affect every relationship they have and can be hard to work through.  Change is possible and therapy can help make that happen.

Whatever you are looking for in each moment you will find it.  If you are looking for the negative that is what you will find.  If you are looking for the good that is what you will find.  

Mistakes happen to all of us.  Some mistakes we do not realize we are making and others we are consciously choosing.  Processing why these mistakes are being made and learning to grow from them can be life changing.

Mindful communication is the ability to actively listen to someone else and respond from that understanding.  When we are unable to actively listen and only respond from our emotions, true communication is not possible.

The hardest thing about seeking therapy is to take the first step of making an appointment and then going to that appointment.  Talking to someone about your life someone who does not know you at all can be very scary.  The first step is the hardest but you can do it.

Many people who have suffered childhood trauma involving their families experience a fear of being alone after.  This fear, if left unprocessed, can lead to repetitive negative relationship behaviors over and over.  Processing this fear and past trauma can lead to self-love, self-worth, and better relationships.

Telling ourselves the truth can be a very difficult thing.  Especially when what we think is the truth is just lies someone else trained us to believe. Tell yourself the real truth and set yourself free.

Often times, it can be hard to realize the things we love about ourselves.  It is far easier to automatically think about the things we think we do not love and have had reinforced.  Learn how to love yourself more today.