Monday Motivation

Our Monday Mantra for this week tells us to let go of anger and frustration.

Nearly everyone has been hurt by the actions or words of another. These wounds can leave you with lasting feelings of anger, bitterness or even vengeance, but if you don’t practice forgiveness, you might be the one who pays most dearly. By embracing forgiveness, you can also embrace peace, hope, gratitude and joy. Forgiveness doesn’t mean that you deny the other person’s responsibility for hurting you, and it doesn’t minimize or justify the wrong. You can forgive the person without excusing the act. Forgiveness brings a kind of peace that helps you go on with life.

Give yourself permission to feel pain, anger and resentment. But relax, meditate and then let it go. It’s a new week, so choose to start afresh.

Our Monday Mantra for this week looks at all the perks of keeping a personal journal and why it’s important for everyone to have one.

Keeping a personal journal has many advantages and benefits. Whether you write a few lines or pages, through journaling, you can record and track a lot of information that can easily be retained for future reference. You can actually see what you were thinking because your thoughts and experiences are in a journal. When you commit to writing them down, you have put your thoughts and experiences into a solid form.

Natalie Goldberg said “Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind”.

It’s the start of a new week, so if you don’t already have one, start keeping a journal from today.