Tag: mantra

Show your good side

Yesterday, I caught a bus and then a train to and from a wonderful community event. On the train there was a poster displaying a poem promoting good behaviour while using public transport. A line of the poem I really liked was “show your good side”.

Show your good side: be positive; respect and be considerate of other people.

I believe showing our good side should be our intention everywhere, including on public transport 🙂

I’m alive, I’m well and I feel great!

At university I was a member of the global student organisation AIESEC. One of many great things about the organisation was the conference: long days of meetings and events followed by partying late into the night. Many attendees became very tired as the conference wore on.

To get the audience enthusiastic again, speakers often got the crowd to stand up and shout out the following mantra, punching their fists into the air while stating each line:

I’m alive!
I’m well!
And I feel great!

Even if really tired, this mantra helped rev up the audience again. As well as motivating groups of people, I think this mantra is great for individuals. When feeling down or requiring extra motivation, passionately stating out loud I’m alive, I’m well and I feel great can make one feel vibrant again, at least temporarily.

Life. Be in it.

Life. Be in it. is a famous Australian slogan used in a series of advertising campaigns in late 1970s and 1980s to promote physical exercise and activities. The campaign’s animated television commercials started “Norm”, an overweight man who liked drinking beer and watching TV.

I love the slogan Life. Be in it. I think this mantra can also be used in a broader context of living life. Be in life – get into life and really enjoy it; live life to the maximum; really love life! That is my goal – hope it is yours too!

I have the freedom to choose

It’s wonderful and to know that, no matter the situation I am in, I have the freedom to choose my response.

If something potentially bad happens, I can choose to be positive and not react negatively.

The freedom to choose is also very important as happiness is based not on one’s circumstances but on how you react to those circumstances.

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Don’t Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin was the feel-good hit of the 1980s.

From the lyrics:

In every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make it double
Don’t worry, be happy

It’s fine being concerned and  trying to change things for the better, but worrying about things one cannot control stresses and can cause anxiety. Be happy.