This week I want you to focus on re-energizing your surroundings.
By developing the recurring practice of re-energizing your surroundings you get to keep your mind active and engaged. You also learn to flex your creative muscles by concocting ways to make changes in your space and in your mindset.
Start by switching things up with what you have. Each day try something different, light a scented candle, clean your space, use a room spray, rearrange your space, change the lighting in your space, add a plant, or try adding a jar of rocks that you’ve collected.
In my personal experience I have found that it was also very very important to change my information diet. By changing the blogs you read, the news you receive, and of course change your Facebook feed (or your social media drug of choice) you start to shift the lens through which you view the world. This can shift in the positive or negative.
The difficult part for me was realizing in the first place what was bothering me on the internet and in real life. Once I realized that I was feeling stressed or strained, I used that feeling as a signal to take a moment and assess what was going on. I was trying to dive deeper and get in touch with my true self, inner self, & soul. Once I was there, it began to be really easy to identify what needed to stay and what needed to go.
In my digital life, I have retooled and purged my Facebook feeds many times over the past five years and have finally arrived at a balance that keeps me informed and inspired, instead of jealous and feeding (unknowingly) off the drama.
In my real life environment, I am constantly changing things around. I change our paintings and decor with every season. Fortunately we have been gifted many paintings from our families. We have a pretty minimal style when it comes to decor, so its really easy for us to switch things around in a matter of minutes.
If I feel like things are getting stale with the decor that we have, I like to create my own art and pop it into some frames that we already have hanging up. I like to make abstract works with paint, my own graphic design posters on the computer, my own hand lettering of quotes that I find inspiring, and my own nature photographs.
Things to Remember:
1. Purge the accounts and pages that you follow on social media and keep only the most supportive & healthily inspiring content.
2. Frame your own art!
3. You don’t have to spend a dime, just move around what you already have.
By developing the practice of re-energizing my surroundings I have found that I feel more inspired and more alive. It feels like my environment (digital & in real life) is evolving with me and changing with the seasons.
