Health and wellness: Powerful Affirmations to Start Your Week Right Padmanabhan 1. If you don’t allow yourself to learn and grow from the experience — from what was said, done, and felt — you will always look at your life through the same old lens. Realize this. In many ways, what you do today matters more than what happened yesterday. 2. Calmness does not mean to be in a space where there is no chaos, trouble, or hard realities to deal with. Calmness means to be in the midst of all those things and still remain mentally, emotionally and physically centered. 3. Breathe. Be where you are. You’ve been broken down dozens of times and put yourself back together again. Think about how remarkable that is, and how far you’ve come. You're not the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even yesterday. You're always growing... stronger! 4. As you journey forward, remember that the the way people see and treat you is their problem, how you respond is yours. So never regret the kindness and respect you have shown to the wrong people. Your behavior says everything about you, and their behavior says more than enough about them. 5. The fundamental goal right now is to gradually change your response to what you can't control. To grow stronger on the inside, so that almost nothing on the outside can affect your inner peace and wellness without your conscious permission. Om Namah Shivaya!!! A TO Z INDIA SEPTEMBER 2022 PAGE 16