Mindful Montana Wellness

People with trauma very often suffer from the illusion of control as they want to control everything around them in order to avoid processing their past traumas.

In a world of overwhelming issues and emotions doing one thing a day to center yourself could make all the difference in how you feel.

Do you need a quick boost of endorphins and dopamine?  Laughter truly can be therapy and the best medicine.

We all have circles of people or circles of possible influences in our lives.  Sometimes we can allow people in these circles to affect how we think and feel about ourselves.  Who in your circles is affecting you and why do you allow that to happen?

Sometimes the ties that bind can keep us bound.

Where in your life do you need to start enforcing boundaries in order to be happier, healthier, more balanced?

Most people believe that they cannot just be happy, however, this is not true.  It just requires self-examination and change of ourselves and our thoughts.

Nothing anyone else says or does or does not say or does not do is about you.  Nothing.

Growing can be very difficult and scary, but the other side can be bright and beautiful.

Vitamin D deficiency has been linked and widely studied as a possible contributor to depression and depression symptoms.  Adding this supplement to your daily regimen could decrease your symptoms over time.

What can you do to become more mindful and less mind full? 

Expecting someone to change in a relationship when they do not want to change will only result in you being miserable.  If you want a relationship to change, if the other person does not want to change then the change must be in yourself.

Most people live their lives and their thoughts in the past and the future.  How might our lives change if we lived only in the right now, this moment? 

What would your life be like if you changed the way you respond to the thoughts you have?  Changing your response time could change your life.

Almost everything we do is a choice.  And every single choice has consequences.  As long as you are still breathing, you can make another choice.

Everything you believe and feel about yourself started somewhere. You were not born believing or feeling the things you do now.  They started with someone else who taught you to think and feel the way that you do.  In order to address all that has followed, you must start at the beginning.  What is your starting point?

Many times, we seek out approval from others.  We let our negative thoughts become truths and we are no longer proud of ourselves, for anything.  We skip right over all the things we do every day that we should be proud of because the negative seems bigger.  We should be proud of ourselves not just in the big things but in everything.

Of all the negative things you believe to be true about yourself, where is your proof?  Questioning negative beliefs can oftentimes lead to finding out that what we think is true really is false.  If you believe the thought that you are stupid is true, have you actually confronted it with things where you were smart?  Did you drive a car today without incident?  Did you pay bil...

Happiness is a choice.  If you spend hours a day with negative thoughts creating unhappiness, could you not spend hours a day with positive thoughts creating happiness?  It really is a matter of what you are thinking and how you let it influence your emotions.

Everyone has two wolves inside them, one negative and one positive, which one are you feeding today?  You choose which to feed by your thoughts. Feed the negative and that is the one that grows more powerful.  Feed the positive and that is the one that grows.  Which wolf do you want to survive?

In order to be your own boss, you need to talk back to the negative voice in your head.

There are many ways to enhance your calm and most can be done in just a few minutes a day.

We are all free to change ourselves and our lives, but for many fear keeps them stuck.

The only thing we can truly control is ourselves and our reactions.

It can be very scary letting go of what we know, however it is the first step on the path to freedom.