5 tips to live more positively

One year ends and another begins. If you have done, with more or less intensity, a balance of your achievements, that is good, because it facilitates being able to maintain and advance from what you choose that makes you well. And it will be a generous goal ... when you have a family, the tendency is to set objectives that facilitate improving family coexistence and the well-being of each of the members of the family.

By making a small revision of the changes that you value important for live more positively In the home it is usually easier to discard what you want to change. This leads to an improvised "trial-error" and it is possible to experiment with new ways of doing things.

How to change to live more positively?

For you as a mother, or father, as well as the reference educators of your children, it is sometimes unthinkable to change the course on a day-to-day basis because there are enough obstacles to finish the day covering all the responsibilities with a marked structure : school hours, work, extracurricular activities, doing homework, doing some shopping, showering time, picking up, preparing dinner ... countless tasks and routines before going to bed and resting.

But, have you considered that maybe you can live positively improving the way you assume all the responsibilities to give a positive turn to the attitude with which you make them? We are generators of change and learning in our children by impact. Everything we do and the way we do it has more influence on them than the messages we pass on to them.

And unconsciously you can teach your children to have a more positive attitude towards life by being more aware of your way of thinking.

Think more positively

The need to feel good is what drives our mental processes and mechanisms to assume a mature attitude towards the need to change perspective before our own personal reality.

Here are 5 tips to improve the attitude and have a more positive thinking that balances the coherence between what we do, feel and think:

1. Change negative habits and beliefs. That which leads us to think suspiciously, always be alert or moody for not seeing our expectations fulfilled. In most cases this has to do with an imposed way of thinking that other people probably taught us about how things should be, from other realities and contexts. With acceptance our habits will be more predisposed to changes, thus avoiding the closure and frustration, since not everything that goes differently than planned is a failure.

2. Maintain an open posture. Everyone in the family has its own identity, with its tastes, preferences, needs, fears and virtues. We can not expect others to think the same way we do or to do things in the same way to reach the same goal. We must be open to receive others as they are expressed.

3. Be grateful. To appreciate what happens to us and that makes us live pleasant experiences. The fact of being in all the circumstances that bring us new learning, value the people who appear in our lives and who give us a valuable sense to the relationship with others, to feel special and unique for being a member of life. It is not only a question of asking for life, we must also contribute.

4. Recognize the environment and the people around us. Sometimes we get wrapped up in negative sensations that infect us with that same feeling in different areas of our lives, forgetting about all the good things that happen to us and the people who accompany us and offer us a new vision of life. Making a conscious recognition of everything that has meaning for us helps us to live from gratitude and positivism (not optimism, but to see the positive side of what we each have and contribute)

5. Work with our body as an instrument of our mind. Body and mind are fully connected. When we feel good physically, our mind thinks in a healthier way and invites us to have attitudes of self-care and generosity, feeling greater well-being than when we are only connected with one of the parties. We are a whole, which flows with balance, as a complex system: when something does not go well it affects all organic functioning. You can also take time during the day for yourself, to breathe with awareness, to reflect and to feel your body.

When you generate all these changes you will see that the benefits act immediately. And your children will see in you the lighthouse that they like to go to when they need some light in their difficulties.