Applied nontoxic positivity can help answer this question.Photo by Yosep Surahman on Unsplash

No two days are alike. Similar, sure. Alike? No. This is because variables will make every single day different and unique in some way or other.

For example, even if you wake up at 6am, on the dot, every morning, the sun isn’t precisely where it was the day before. No matter how close the temperature of the air is today to what it was yesterday, the humidity and barometric pressure are different.

This is due to the one and only constant in the entire universe. Change. Fast or slow, wanted or unwanted, change is ever-present, constant, and ongoing.

This fact, however, is often glossed over, weaponized, or demonized as being awful. Whole industries and governments exist to resist and fight change, despite its inevitability. People are told that this, that, or the other thing that is changing will negatively impact their life experience and cause them to suffer.

Fear of suffering is why ours is a fear-based society. From the blatant to the subtle, the innocuous to the intentional, fear of suffering is used to overwhelm you and me to keep us disempowered and feeling as if we have little to no control over anything at all.

That, however, is not the truth. Recognizing this is a choice you get to make. One way to start that engine is by asking, “What will today bring?”

Mindfulness is just active conscious awareness

Everyone is of three minds. The unconscious, which is how your vital life functions, such as neurons firing, blood pumping, lungs breathing, and so on, takes place. The subconscious is where your beliefs, values, memories, and habits live. Then there is the conscious, where you can be awake and aware, here and now, of what’s happening both outside and inside of yourself.

The subconscious is always absorbing everything around it unfiltered. Hence, if you’re scrolling mindlessly across social media and engaging with increasingly negative things, you start to absorb them and, because you’re working subconsciously, think and feel negative.

Conscious awareness is where you gain control. You do so by being an active participant, which occurs by making choices and decisions. Choosing and deciding is often held up as being about the big, important things. But the reality is that every little choice matters. Specifically, making even small choices mindfully.

That’s not to say that all things done by rote, routine, and habit are problematic. That subconscious automation allows you to handle a vast range of life necessities. It becomes problematic when you don’t engage active conscious awareness and cede all to your subconscious mind.

When you make active choices and decisions about how you spend your time, what you give focus and energy to, you gain necessary insight into that which you can and do control. Namely, your thoughts, feelings, approach, intentions, and actions.

That opens the way to choose what any given day will bring.

What will today bring?

Every. Single. Day. Is. New. This is something easily forgotten. Especially when there are tons of loud, overbearing, forceful things telling you what to think, how to act, who to be, what to feel, and so on.

Advertising tells you to buy this thing or use that service, or else you’ll suffer. Maybe you’ll be disregarded, found unattractive, or otherwise unworthy. It’s often incredibly subtle, but still like a drill boring into your subconscious.

You have the power to take the wheel. It begins by pausing and being present, here and now. Not looking back to the past or forward to the future. Here. Now. Present. This moment alone.

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When you are wholly present, now, you gain use of active conscious awareness. From there, you can make choices and decisions about who, what, where, how, and why you are. This door opens when you look at what you’re thinking, what and how you’re feeling, if your approach is positive or negative, what your intentions are, and what you’re doing.

From that knowledge, if you find that the answers aren’t what you desire for them to be, you can choose and decide to change them.

Asking “What will today bring?” can only be answered here and now via active conscious awareness. Applied mindfulness that you can use to choose and decide this, that, or the other thing.

Yes, this is “woke.” How, in any way, is that a bad thing? Not being awake and aware means your subconscious is being driven by people, situations, and other things that you might really prefer it wasn’t being driven by, and you might feel negativity because of that. However, there is something you can do about this.

Applied nontoxic positivity

When you don’t ask what will today bring, you are letting your subconscious drive. That means that if you had a bad dream, start the day reading about the latest insanity from the government or various horrid world affairs, odds are that you’ll feel negative.

When you question what will today bring, you open yourself up to seeking useful, good, positive things. I’m not talking about giant changes or pie-in-the-sky notions. These are things like getting a good cup of coffee or tea, kissing a loved one, petting a dog or cat, enjoying the sun or rain on your face, and other seemingly insignificant things that are good and positive in your life.

This empowers you. Nontoxic positivity doesn’t ignore or disregard reality. It opens your active conscious awareness to making choices and decisions to impact how your day will be.

That’s something you and I can control that can make the difference between having a good day or a lousy day. Why not employ this for your betterment? It not only does no harm to you, but it can also spread to people around you and help them have a better day, too.

Worth it.

Asking and answering “What will today bring?” isn’t hard

It’s all about practicing active conscious awareness of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and the positivity or negativity of your approach to direct your actions.

When you recognize and acknowledge that applied mindfulness and active conscious awareness put you in the driver’s seat of your life, you can ask these and similar questions to be mindful and thus drive your life experience. Knowing that you can make your own choices and decisions, and take control of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, approach, and actions, you open yourself to more potential and possibilities on multiple levels.

This empowers you, and your empowerment can empower others around you.

Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity — from the vast cylinder that exists between them — shifts life in a way that opens greater dialogue. From that dialogue, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.

Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself opens the way for a positive approach and attitude via your actions. This can lead to realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.

The better aware you are of yourself here and now, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, that can spread to those around you for their empowerment.

Thank you for coming along on this journey.

This is the six-hundred-fifth (605) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, reblog, and spread the positivity.

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