Before your habitual thoughts, states, and behaviors take over, pause for a moment to reflect on:
This practice can help you reset your mind, body, and soul by remind yourself that each day you can make a completely different choice than the day before. We are not meant to live in states of overwhelm, anxiety, and lethargy. We are meant to grow, learn, and evolve through our challenges, not be defeated by them. We naturally long for playfulness, ease, connection, and meaning. Our desire for these experiences is not to be judged, dismissed, or ignored, but honored and followed. If you notice that you live daily in states of anxiety, overwhelm, stress, lethargy, depression, etc. consider finding professional help. Your mind, body, and soul want to free themselves from these energy sucking states and want to soar into a more fun and relaxed way of living. Do you struggle to make a decision or do you tend to ask everyone else for their opinion first?
Or maybe you feel like you know what you want but when you hear a different opinion you start questioning yourself? If this is you, here are a few things to remember:
Balance doesn't mean we equally give attention to every aspect of our life. It is about knowing what matters to us, and what our needs, values, and priorities are. The below suggestions are based on my personal 'rules' so feel free to take what resonates and adapt them in a way that makes sense to you. Redefining balance is not about forcing yourself to mimic someone else's way of living, but creating your own so it is sustainable with your lifestyle. 1. Start with daily non-negotiables. These are daily habits that create the foundation for your mental and physical health. I try to prioritize these regardless of how busy or unpredictable other areas of my life are. I look at this as the foundation around which everything is arranged. 2. Spend more time on fulfilling experiences, people, and activities, and spend less time on soul sucking ones. Knowing what energizes you and what drains you AND intentionally making decisions from this awareness is crucial. Notice your energy levels at different times of the day, around various people, activities, experiences, topics, places, etc. 3. Ask yourself what matters to you in this season. For example, if I notice a lack of enthusiasm for something I enjoyed doing, or if it feels like I'm forcing myself to pursue a goal I set a while back, I reevaluate whether it still has the same importance to me and if it doesn't, I give myself the option to take a break from it or spend less time on it. Our priorities will shift as we change and evolve. 4. Minimize reliance on coping strategies for immediate relief and satisfaction. We all have our habitual ways of responding to distress, but coping strategies that are geared towards escaping our experience and quickly feeling better, often leave us feeling worse in the long term or they tend to create an additional problem. Instead, learn how to be with and tolerate distress and seek to find more grounding and creative ways of coping with it. Our imagination is so much more powerful than our reality. By imagining something that's not real, we create real feelings in the present moment. Let's say you imagine a future outcome not going your way, or if you think about an uncomfortable memory that took place at some point, you will start to evoke feelings as if that event is happening in the present moment. Any feelings we evoke by imagining, either positive or negative situations, are real. The same goes for something that's wanted, something that you desire. So when you imagine desired outcome or an experience that you really want to manifest in your life, you're going to start creating those feelings that will match that event you’re imagining. By knowing how powerful our imagination is , you can be intentional about where you let your mind focus. |
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April 2024
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