Midweek Blooms: Uplift Your Mindset: 10 Mantras To Reset For Joy

We always have options; even inaction counts as an action. Self-affirming mantras help to centre and ground us, allowing us to pause, contemplate, and strategize with attentive awareness, bolstering our joy and contentment.

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Mantras have their origins in the Buddhist and Hindu faiths. Several studies suggest that relaxing mantras can help with anxiety and other mental health disorders, including depression.

We can select mantras that are particular to us, fit with our ideals, and compel us to grow and advance.

Here are some mantras:

1. I commit to making room for development and expansion when I am willing to welcome, accept, and befriend negative and uncomfortable emotions, validate myself, and participate in self-compassion.

2. I have no control over my ideas or feelings, just how I choose to act or react to them.

3. My brain is predisposed to think negatively. I can recall memories of my anguish more easily than recollections of my joy, both cognitively and somatically. My reptile brain tells me that focusing on the negative, what-ifs, and what could inevitably-go-wrongs will protect me from injury, failure, and discomfort. My thought processes do not have to distort my inner experiences and behaviour.

4. My mind is tenacious. I can't necessarily get rid of the chatter in my head, but I can decrease the level. The conversation has the potential to become a direct conduit to my values and a greater knowledge of what is valuable and important to me.

5. To develop my flexibility and curiosity, I'll question myself on a regular basis, "How else can I see this?" and "Is my reaction and behaviour helping me to lean towards or away from building my confidence and being a reflection of who I want to be?"

Here are five more

6. Even though it's uncomfortable, distressing, and less than ideal, I prefer familiarity to the terrifying unknown. Instead of reacting to these feelings from a place of stuckness, stagnation, or fear, I'll notice them.

7. To create space between thinking and action, I must pace myself, examine myself, and be curious about myself. All thoughts and feelings that arise during the process are OK. What matters most is how I respond to them. This is unavoidably my selection.

8. I find my values in my pain, and my pain in my values. In other words, if I'm upset, it's because a value is being rubbed up against, and if a value is being rubbed up against, I'll ultimately be upset. My distress helps me realise my requirements and what is genuinely essential to me.

9. I will choose to behave depending on who I am and how I want to be, no matter what, regardless of how others behave.

10. Inadvertently cutting off my unpleasant or uncomfortable feelings affects my ability to connect with my good and more comfortable ones. To be connected, engaged, and in the present moment, I choose to welcome all feelings and experiences and minimise my judgements about them.

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