STWDM6 - The Key to Positive Input

Day 6 Message:  Making each moment count positively is all that life demands from you. Edmond Mbiaka

Every experience influences our life. We metabolize everything we encounter – physically and emotionally – so each experience becomes a part of our minds and bodies.  Negative experiences are metabolized differently than positive experiences. If you overload the system with negative input, it goes out of balance.  If you substitute positive inputs instead, these also get metabolized into your overall wellbeing, energy level, and health. The best inputs are any experiences that make you feel lighter physically and emotionally, from the freshest organic foods to laughter to the beauty of Nature.  Positive input strengthens you on every level, making it much easier to rid your system of toxins.

O: Our bodies are a reflection and a metaphor for our state of mind.  When we alter our mindset, we begin to shift and lift the heaviness and weight from our bodies and our lives.  Every day we energetically metabolize our experiences.  Experience actually serves as fuel for every circuit in our bodies.  Often we overload our systems with negative inputs, short circuiting ourselves.  We allow difficult or stressful experiences to build up and ultimately that negative energy drains you.  It dims your light, it takes you out of balance.  I know you’ve all felt it because that’s when your body feels pressure.  It feels a sense of hunger and wanting.  Just as we’re all responsible for the energy that we bring to any situation, we are all each responsible to ourselves for the energy that you allow in.  You are the guardian of your own internal harmony and vibrancy.  When you internalize the positive and keep the negative at bay, your good energy gets amplified.  You recharge every fiber of your being from your body to your soul.

D:  Every day you have all kinds of experiences but even though you probably aren’t aware of it, all of these experiences become part of your body.  Just as you metabolize food by extracting its nutrients, your awareness processes every thought, feeling and action into biochemical terms.  A thought can literally be fattening by reinforcing a habit of eating.  Experiences, as your brain views them, fall into only two categories – positive input and negative input. The bad experiences in our lives get metabolized as negative input.  They burden us as long as we carry them around.  The good experiences get metabolized as positive input which has the effect of making things lighter and more optimistic.  One input is nourishing and healing.  The other is detrimental and toxic.  Nothing is less nourishing than negative experiences.  Negative input, in most of our lives,  build up as stress, interpersonal conflicts, pressure or insecurity at work and poor self-image which involves both our body image and self-esteem.

Positive input is guided by our true self and expresses itself as love, gratitude, compassion, lack of conflict in relationships, a peaceful environment, satisfying intimacy and a good self-image.   In everyone’s life, no matter how well things are going, there is room to increase positive input.  If this sounds a little clinical and objective, that’s because we’re not in the habit of being detached enough to deal with negative aspects of daily life.  You must make the effort to adopt self-care as your default which means that you never carelessly allow negative input to build up.  The greatest problem is not usually a gigantic crisis but the nagging effect of small everyday irritants, job-related pressure, inner tension from your partner or spouse, unruly family life and the like.  This is the sort of input you can address by first paying attention and secondly, substituting positive input instead.

Journal Ideas:  1.  Write down two kind gestures you can offer to the people around you today to be a source of love and positivity at work or home.  2.What relationship gives you the most positive input? Write about how that relationship has changed you for the better.  3.  Now write down three things you can do to support all the positive aspects of all your relationships.