24/04/2024
We all want to feel like this picture, peaceful, tranquil and lost in the moment. But life happens! The alarm goes off for work, we press the snooze, we doze and suddenly we are running 5 minutes behind, playing catch up already with our day.
The mind kicks in, the stress builds and you haven’t even left the house. There are others in the bathroom, tick tock says your mind and the judge comes in with a barrage of reasons you suck. You don’t even realise it’s taken the shame stage until you start to feel crap or anxious and more stress comes.
You grab your bag, coffee, etc, and head out the door. Stress level hitting 8 before the journey starts, and as we attract what we are, of course you get stuck behind the slow driver or the person who you think must not have work today.
Before you know it, you’ve been stressed all day, in a crappy mood and may have even took it out on your nearest and dearest or management in work. You may even have verbally vomited on someone who asked you how you are. A full explanation of why you are 5 minutes late. When they probably didn’t even notice cause you feel you need to justify yourself to the judge in your head.
What I tell my clients to do, who tell me they find it difficult to grab time to calm themselves down or meditate. Is to do a calm moment or play a calm game.
It can be as quick as, become aware of something you can see you hadn’t noticed before, something you can hear you hadn’t noticed before and something you can feel you hadn’t noticed before.
It takes less than a minute, calms the nervous system and gets you present- out of your thought spiral or emotional overwhelm. Once calm, your nervous system calms and the cortisol and adrenaline begins to stop being released. This then engages the more rational part of the mind and allows you to get off the stress train.
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