Thursday May 17 2012

5 Tips for Feeling Better

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If you or someone you know is working toward a cancer-free life, they are most likely undergoing treatment that can be taxing on the body—both inside and out. Here are five tips to make life easier during this challenging time.

1. Only wear what you love. Don’t underestimate how looking good can make you feel good. Dress with pride when going to doctor’s appointments. You’re taken seriously, remembered, and treated with greater respect when you show up looking like you respect yourself.

2. Bring a brand new color into your wardrobe. Life is in shakeup mode, so shake up your wardrobe by bringing in some colors that you love and maybe haven’t worn yet. Try pink, turquoise, teal, orange, purple, lilac, or leaf green. Choose colors that feel energizing, hopeful and uplifting to you. The people around you will also enjoy the positive energy these colors bring.

3. Special jewelry pieces can be talismans for good health. Some people like to wear a necklace passed down to them by a favorite grandmother or aunt. Others like to wear a butterfly brooch that symbolizes new birth. Pick a piece of jewelry and keep it close to you or wear it. Let the warm feelings you get from your symbolic piece soothe and comfort you on an as-needed basis.

4. Control what you can. Often a health crisis can come right out of the blue and make your life feel suddenly out of control. Now is the time to focus on what you can control. You can control what’s around you. Eliminate any unwanted clutter from your life. Edit out everything that’s not useful or beautiful to you—old photos, chipped dishes, broken appliances. Surround yourself only with the things that bring you pleasure. Move toward the people and things that make you happy.

5. Keep a gratitude journal. These are great for anybody but especially now, when you could be focused on all the things you don’t like, you need a place where you can focus on the things you do like. At the end of the day, write down ten things you are grateful for. Knowing you’re going to be writing ten things each night will keep you focused during the day on moments of grace, pleasant surprises and simple pleasures. That journal could become an everyday welcome friend. 

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