Positivity Pause - #WisdomWednesday - BIG UP Yuhself!

🌞 It's #WisdomWednesday, and it's time for your #PositivityPause! 🌞

TAKE a moment to inhale for a count of 3, hold for a count of 3, exhale for a count of 3🧘🏽‍♀🧘🏼‍♂🧘🏾

🇯🇲 BIG UP Yuhself 🇯🇲

😍😄I can’t help but chuckle as I write this because it brings back such fond memories of my father-in-law Poppa Anderson, who was Jamaican, and I could hear his voice saying this to me💛💚

Many of us were raised in cultures where acknowledging one’s achievements or self-worth is viewed as arrogant or boastful. I believe this contributes to imposter syndrome and the dominance of the limiting voices in our heads because we have been trained to not pay attention to the good about ourselves and in so doing have no counter narrative when those pesky negative voices attack🧐

👏🏾Congratulating oneself and acknowledging hard fought and won achievements are not empty affirmations but rather the legitimate byproduct of much work and effort.

🥳Bigging Up Yuhself on your achievement is actually a mindfulness practice. It allows you to sit in the present moment contentment of what you have done and bask in that experience rather than automatically striving for something else.

👁When you can SEE yourself and your value, you emanate a quiet confidence and energy that invites others into your greatness.

😇🌈Last but not least, on each day of creation God looked at what He had done and said it was good. You are God’s creation so when you look at yourself and acknowledge that you are good, it glorifies God and His creation🙌🏾😇

⏸So take a PAUSE and BIG UP YUHSELF for ALL things great and small. Your very existence is a miracle and how you show up in this world is worthy of recognition and celebration. Take a minute to pay yourself on the back and do something special for YOU! You deserve it💕🌺