Become a New You with Positive Thinking
Attending spa sessions often means relaxing and letting your mind wander. However, being alone with one’s thoughts is not always a pleasant or calming experience. Whether you’re getting a massage or sitting in a sauna, toxic thoughts can enter your mind. Maybe you’re worried that your boss will fire you or you believe your teen is acting out because you’re not a good parent. No matter what type of negativity is plaguing you, there are effective ways to ease your mental stress.
Reduce Pain and Other Health Issues
Our routines involve a lot of activity, from school to work to driving to shopping. Pain can spring up from any number of things, as well as negative thoughts. If you have problems in your life, they can cause stress, loss of appetite, headaches, and more. Negative thoughts have an impact on us and how we approach problems. Wellness practices, like acupuncture, can ease your physical ailments, but if you haven’t confronted the source, then the ailments will return.
If you encounter a problem, such as losing your job, it can cause a chain of events. You develop negative thoughts, letting them overwhelm you and cause anxiety, which can trigger a headache, tense muscles, or trouble breathing. No one wants to lose their job, but it does happen, and it must be faced with a dose of positivity in order to get through the situation. Yes, you lost your job, but you can find a new one. In fact, you can find a better one.
Flush Negativity
Negative thoughts can not only cause physical problems, such as headaches and elevated stress levels, but also mental problems.
For instance, if you compare yourself to your colleague and don’t think you’re worth the job promotion, you’re installing mental roadblocks that will influence your mood and actions. Negative thoughts have a way of making us accept situations as they are, making us feel helpless or trapped. One way to get rid of negative thoughts is by flipping them over. Instead of focusing on “I can’t fix this,” change it to “how can I fix this?” or “who can help me?” With negative thoughts, you have to think outside of them.
Removing negativity from yourself will make you stronger in mind, body, and spirit.
Recite Affirmations
Making a positive affirmation is simple: speak in the first person and in the present tense with a positive verb. For example, “I am good at my job,” “I have the power to change this,” or “I am happy for their success.”
Once you have created a set of affirmations that you like, spend five minutes on saying them, either outloud or in your mind. Affirmations should be said every day and with conviction. By saying the same affirmations repeatedly, they will enter your subconscious and work their magic. This practice is similar to reprogramming your mind, so it changes how it thinks and reacts to situations.
Listen to Uplifting Music
Words have an impact on us. Listening to sad or angry music will add to your mood and ensure that your thoughts stay negative or become toxic. Being positive is something that takes time and effort, especially when transitioning from negativity to positivity. However, being positive will become more natural to you as you practice.
Music is subjective, so an instrument may speak to one person, but not to another. You may relate sad and melancholy feelings to the violin or the erhu even if the tone of the song is not sad. It’s essential for your mental wellbeing to choose music that will calm you. Many spas play artificial sounds from nature, like waterfalls, since they are neutral sounds.
Meditate
What is the best thing about meditation? It can be practiced by anyone anywhere whenever they need to do it and for however long they need it. In meditation, you have the power to choose how you meditate. You can sit in the Lotus pose with soft music playing while repeating your affirmations. You can sit outside on your lunch break and close your eyes while listening to the world around you. Or, you can enjoy a hot stone massage and just concentrate on your breathing. Meditation is about focusing on your wellbeing.
While you meditate, negative thoughts will enter your mind. You can’t stop this from happening, but you can take their power away by preventing them from affecting you. This is another way of making yourself mentally strong. You will be able to look at your negative thoughts and reject them.
Attend to Your Body
Because negative thoughts can cause pain and other physical ailments, that doesn’t mean you must ignore your body. Regular spa sessions are beneficial. Hot stone massages involve the placement of hot stones on the body’s pressure points to relax muscles. Infrared saunas directly heat the body, reducing muscle pain and increasing circulation. Acupuncture is another spa treatment with centuries of history that can ease your pain by balancing the flow of your Qi.
The specialists at RelaxZone can help you find the right massage for your condition. We know that not everyone is comfortable with spa sessions, so we do our best to accommodate our clients. Get in touch with us today to ask questions or to book your appointment!