It’s a funny thing about life:

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you will very often get it.                    -W. Somerset Maugham

We create our own reality by what we think about, it’s sometimes known as self-fulfilling prophecy.  It doesn’t matter what we think about, good or bad, life will reward us with what we dwell on in our thoughts.  If we believe that old people are sick, lonely, and have memory problems, then that is what we will manifest into our lives.  Our subconscious mind will see to it that we get what we believe.

Everyone talks to themselves all the time.  I once worked for a pediatrician who talked to himself.  He told me it was ok, until you started answering yourself.  I’m sure if he understood that we do answer ourselves, his conversations with himself would have been different.

In light of the power we have within to create our reality, it may be well advised to give ourselves regular pep talks.  Start each day by telling yourself, you are strong, capable, energetic, successful, smart, happy, and beautiful.  Emphasize the qualities that you want to manifest into your life.  I recently heard a woman repeat to herself, I am healthy, wealthy and wise.  The truth is we can become what we repeatedly tell ourselves we are.

We may have to rewrite our self talk script if we have been giving ourselves negative talks for the last 20 to 40 years.  There is a saying, “You may not get what you want, but you’ll usually get what you expect.”  That should be incentive to expect the best that life has to offer.

Laughter is the best medicine.  Laughter has some amazing effects on our physiology.  Our lungs are fill more deeply, improving oxygen levels in the blood.  While it causes the blood pressure and pulse to increase a bit, they come down significantly for as long as an hour.  Secretions of adrenaline and cortisol, the stress hormones,  are reduced in the body.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.  ~ Arnold Glasow

So, pay attention to your self talk, think only on those things which will bring you joy, happiness, and peace of mind.

Laugh often, laugh long, laugh hard.