I had one of those nights last night where I just had 100,000 things running through my mind. Lists. Thoughts. Ideas. Quite a few of these thoughts were negative so I began composing a list of ideas on my phone on how to reduce the amount of negative thoughts I let into my mind. 

Of late, I have been really into meditating of a morning and night. I feel that it takes the focus away from my thoughts and onto my breathing which I quite enjoy. Meditating has taught me to live for the now, not think what will happen in my future or what has happened in the past but to focus on the most important moment, now. This is followed closely by surrounding myself with positive people and staying away from people who have overly negative thoughts themselves. I find that since graduating high school I, very much so, have the option to pick and choose who I am around and I really enjoy it. I like having 5 or so really close friends that I feel really comfortable around I know that whenever I am around them any of my negative thoughts will disappear. 

I was given a very good piece of advice last night from one of these friends. Basically it was along the lines of (and excuse my language) "you're going to fuck up a lot in your life and once you realise that, you then need to learn to be nice to yourself about it and accept when it happens." I did something kind of stupid yesterday and then spent the afternoon beating myself up about it. Looking back on it now, yeah it was stupid and I (for those few hours) hated myself for it and completely regretted it. After that advice (and a much needed hug) I realise that shit happens, we need to take responsibility and move past it. 

The final thing I like to do when I am cluttered by negative thoughts is write down a list of 5 or so things that are positive in my life and why they make me feel happy. It seems very simple but it does the trick - I promise. 

- Emma xo 

(P.S. Today I was in the city, grabbing a coffee [alone, as always] and this lovely girl, Jessica, approached me and began telling me about how she reads my blog. Holy wow! This was such a surreal experience. I have never had someone approach me before telling me that they have actually read my blog!! To know that there are actually people behind the numbers and usernames is incredible.)

(P.P.S. Sorry, that sounded very vain of me but it was just a ridiculously overwhelming feeling that I needed to share with my Internet family.)