The quickest way to shift our bodies and minds from the stress response is through our breath. Survival mode and the connection with inner peace cannot co-exist in these conditions, survival mode will always take priority. When our lives are stressed, and we don’t create opportunities to recharge and connect with ourselves in solitude, we go into survival mode. We often think of stress as all those things external to us, but when we realize that stress is an inside job, we can develop a healthier relationship with it. The most significant barrier to cultivating inner peace is stress. Spend a couple of minutes focusing on your breath and your heart, and finish by saying something kind or compassionate to yourself as if you’re your best friend. Take some long, slow, deep breaths, and watch your chest rise and fall over your heart area as you’re doing that. The first step is noticing that you’re feeling anxious and worrying. Whenever you worry and feel anxious, it’s the perfect opportunity to practice getting out of your head and connecting with your heart. When we have a battle between our head and our heart, our mind is often victorious. I know personally from my experience that you will never connect with your soul through your head. They say that the longest journey you can make is between your head and your heart. Get out of your head and into your heart. You’ll find that our feelings and emotions are like clouds, and they move through us if we allow them to be there and don’t try to push them away. It creates space for the feelings to be present without creating a story or drama around them.īe curious about how the feeling feels in your body. Letting go of the need to judge is very powerful. Notice when you are “judging” your feelings as good or bad, right or wrong. The first step is to become aware and begin to develop a vocabulary for how you feel.
Mindfulness Tip:īegin the practice of making friends with ALL of your feelings. To feel joy and happiness, you must also feel sadness and pain. You can’t just selectively decide that you want to feel good and not bad.
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Most of us have no idea how to feel what we feel, and we don’t want to embrace the uncomfortable feelings of sadness, worry, anxiety, anger, and fear.īut here’s the thing. One of my coaching clients recently said, “I don’t know what I’m feeling most of the time, and I don’t know how to deal with painful emotions, so I find myself binge eating when I’m stressed.” Take the best friends’ approach to your feelings. Here are five mindfulness tips that will help you cultivate inner peace and joy: 1. There’s no battle going on in your head and heart. Each thought, feeling, sensation, and experience is accepted for what it is. Mindfulness is about being fully aware of each moment in your life. My busyness robbed me of my relationship with the most critical person in my life- myself.Īll of this changed when I learned and started to practice mindfulness. My busyness was something I did out of habit because I didn’t know how to be alone with my feelings and myself. My productivity landed me in the doctor’s office with many stress-related symptoms. Unfortunately, for most of my life, I was too busy to learn some basic skills to help me thrive and not merely survive.īusyness and accomplishing many tasks in a day became the priority. Learning to cultivate inner peace and greater joy is one of the many gifts of practicing mindfulness.
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