Daily Gratitude: Here’s another affirmation for you.

First ask yourself how you adapt to change. Or maybe first is do you adapt or do you resist to the end?

You have to know how you react or respond before you can hope to change that. The goal here is to minimize your resistance to change since that only increases anxiety and prolongs your becoming “ok” with the change (ideally you’ll become comfortable).

Saying these affirmations helps rewire the neural circuits in your brain. But as with all affirmations, you need to accompany them with action.

So ask yourself what small action you can take that will reinforce your affirmation. Perhaps it’s just taking time to imagine what good things could possibly come from this change. That may seem difficult but if you make it a game and divest yourself from the results and just do it for fun, it might be easier. Go for outrageous ideas, ideas that make you laugh because you know that won’t happen. When you go in with that attitude, anything else might be acceptable.

They’re doing some sort of construction on the trail I walk on. I don’t like it. But I have no control over that (they never asked me darn it). So to follow my own advice, I’ve imagined them finding major archaeological findings as they dig. Big bones, dinosaur skeletons. That made me laugh.

It works. Try it.