Oxygen Australia — January-February 2018

84 Jan/Feb 2018 oxygenmag.com.au

HAPPY

NEW YEAR

I

’m all for the saying ‘New Year, New

You’, but I’m all for tweaking it a little bit

as well. New Year’s is an amazing time

to set goals and feel motivated about the

fresh new year ahead of you. The ideation

everyone seems to have about a ‘new you’,

though, is something I don’t really buy into;

I prefer to frame this idea of how we think of

ourselves a different way.

What about an improved you, or a more

accepting you, or a healthier you? While we’re

on that, let’s talk about you. Let’s talk about

how self love, positivity, and the power of your

mind can help you to have the best year yet.

No one else is you, so why try and be

someone else? Think about people who you

admire. It might be a celebrity or a local hero;

it might be your mum or a friend.

Well, guess what? Someone looks up to you

too. I know some of you are thinking, ‘pffft,

no they don’t’ — well, stop that, because they

do! You might not even know this someone; it

might be someone you pass on your morning

walk every day who admires your hair or your

motivation. Everyone is admired in some way

or form, and that’s what makes you special and

different.

To live a fulfilled life, we must feel good

within ourselves first. Sometimes we have to

treat ourselves as first priority. It’s not selfish;

it’s just what we need to do in order to be the

best version of ourselves, and also what we

need to do to help the people around us.

This New Year, let’s do something shape-shifting and make it about

becoming healthier, improved versions of ourselves, of transforming

what is already there by harnessing the power of the mind to make 2018

our best year yet, the year we live our best version of ourselves.

When you’re happy, the people around

you are happy. It’s like a ripple effect. People

benefit from people, and we bounce off each

other’s energies.

One thing to be conscious of coming into

2018 is choosing where to focus your energy.

You might not realise it, but the smallest

negative thought can steal a good amount of

energy away from you.

Choose to use your energy doing and

visualising the things you truly desire in life.

We have between 50,000 and 70,000 thoughts

a day. Controlling all of these thoughts is

impossible, but choosing which thoughts we

give attention to isn’t.

What a lot of people don’t realise is that you

have the power to change things in your life

for the better, really quickly. Your mind is so

powerful! You know the Law of Gravity? How

if you drop a pen it will fall to the ground?

Well, the Law of Attraction has been proven to

be just as powerful as the Law of Gravity. You

just need to know how to use it.

In short, the Law of Attraction says that like

attracts like. So if you put a positive thought

out into the universe, you will get it back. If

you visualise something, and completely feel

the feelings of having that something as your

own, you will attract that something into your

life.

It’s that simple. The mind can’t tell the

difference between imagination and real life.

So get visualising and trick your mind into

making what you want a reality.

Look at it like this. You order something

online, pay for it, put your address in, and it’s

yours, right? It’s coming. Treat the universe

just like that.

Ask for what you want, truly believe that it’s

coming, and then be thankful when you receive

it. Gratitude is one of the highest vibrations

you can put out into the universe. Do you

really think you will attract good things into

your life if you’re not thankful for what you

already have? Absolutely not.

I had a pretty amazing experience myself

this year. I was living in America and was

having a really hard time adapting to the

hectic ‘La La Land’ life. I found the acting

industry competitive and judgemental, I

wasn’t making any good friends, I was getting

frustrated with the lack of auditions and

meetings, and I was getting down because I

wasn’t surrounded by the people I love.

I was in a rut, and I wasn’t helping myself

by wallowing in it. Let’s face it. Sometimes it’s

easier to wallow in it. We don’t have to make

the effort to be happy and positive; we can

sit there and do nothing, cry, and get some

attention! It’s natural, normal, and okay!

But I decided enough was enough. I started

meditating, and through my meditation I was

eventually able to quiet my mind and get the

answers I had been looking for. If you don’t

meditate or aren’t spiritual, you will probably

laugh at this! I used to turn my nose up at

BY CLEO MASSEY / PHOTOGRAPHY BY NATALIE IMGRABEN

transformative