When you enter the presence of this moment – you will discover a welcome sense of calm and peace
‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armour, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us’. Brene Brown
This blog is for you if you find it difficult to make time for yourself in a busy schedule.
When was the last time you offered yourself the opportunity to really notice how you are feeling?
With so much demand on your time involving work, family, leisure activities, its important to notice what is happening inside.
Here’s a list of fairly typical ways you’ve possibly tried to avoid uncomfortable feelings:
- Staying so busy you have no time to notice how you feel
- Scrolling on your phone
- Finding you can’t resist responding to every phone notification
- Using alcohol to help you relax
- Consuming information
- Retail therapy
Does your brain:
Have some regrets about the past
Replay difficult past conversations
Imagine future conversations
Worry about an upcoming event or meeting
Ways you may be tempted to deal with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings:
- Keeping them all inside
- Comfort eating
- Ignoring how you feel
- Pushing the feeling away
Pausing to offer yourself a quiet sanctuary, even for a few minutes, is important. You can check in with yourself and how you’re feeling.
It does take practice to bring yourself into a sense of calm awareness of a peaceful present moment.
Here’s an exercise you may like to do to help you become more aware of this moment and how you are. I hope you will discover a peaceful, present moment.
Find a comfortable place where you won’t be interrupted.
This could be in your home, in your garden, in a park, wherever feels right for you.
Sit down and feel the strength in your spine, yet a sense of feeling relaxed in your body. Have an openness to possibility.
Notice the feeling of your feet on the ground, allow your hands to rest in your lap.
It’s important to feel comfortable so if your position needs to be different that’s ok!
Close your eyes, or if you prefer fix your gaze upon something low down.
Bring your attention to your breathing, you don’t need to change it.
Can you feel your breath in different parts of your body?
Notice sounds, in the distance
Be present with the sound, it doesn’t need to be judged.
Notice sounds, nearer to you.
Where there is silence, allow that to be.
Is there any tension in your body?
If your body could speak, what might it say to you?
How are you feeling right now?
The purpose of this exercise is to bring a sense of calm awareness in a peaceful, present moment.
I’ve added a 4 minute guided recording of a similar exercise here:
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