Calming Anxiety...
Science has shown that positive emotions can help shift and replace our anxiety producing feelings and perceptions. This serves to counterbalance the depleting effects from our stressful reactions and also positively affects our psychological and physiological levels.
As we increasingly take charge of our emotions, we can reduce and prevent much of the anxiety we experience.
Inner Self-Monitoring
As you start your day, and occasionally throughout the day, ask yourself the following questions:
What am I feeling right now? Are my mind and emotions churning out worry and stressful and anxiety fuelled projections regarding future outcomes, or do I feel resilient and balanced in my decisions, actions and responses to whatever the day brings?
Am I remembering that I have the choice to take pause and weigh out my heart’s responses and suggestions — before falling into the same old mental and emotional reactions that lower my spirit and drain the energy needed to create and operate effectively?
These types of questions are simply for stimulating the memory that there are pro-active things we can do to mitigate and prevent a significant amount of stress and low productivity.
Breathing the feeling of ease helps to quieten your mind’s static; this makes it easier to feel your heart’s intuitive suggestions for less stressful, more effective ways to handle whatever a day brings. We can’t erase all of our challenges, but we can get a lot smarter in how we deal with them. Connecting with our heart-smarts can become a powerful stress-buster and guidance system for a more fulfilling life.
When you need an attitude lift to re-kindle your resilience: Breathe in the feeling of inner ease and calm for a few minutes. While doing this, hold the feeling of genuine appreciation for someone, a pet, or something you care about. Feelings of appreciation have been proven to benefit our health.
Make a list of a few behavior patterns you would like to change to reduce stress and increase emotional balance. (Emotional balance slows down the burn rate of the energy we accumulate from sleep.)
Positive Self-Talk
Have a sincere and honest self-talk about the attitudes and behaviors you listed. The most meaningful self-talk occurs when the heart speaks to the mind. If you feel yourself drifting into mind processing, make a genuine effort to ease back into your heart space. If indecision or self-doubt begin to surface, simply realise that it is your old way of thinking. Breathe ease, and gently return to focusing on the change you truly desire.
Applications for Inner Ease
Identify daily activities, situations or interactions where you think breathing ease and taking a quiet pause could be helpful.
There are many situations that create stress in people’s lives that they take for granted because it seems normal. You can breathe ease in these situations and take charge of your energy. Here is a small list of important times for remembering to breathe ease.
Before responding to a difficult e-mail.
When overwhelmed with too much to do.
While stuck in traffic and running late for an appointment.
As your computer reboots.
While discerning important issues or choices.
When life’s challenges are coming in faster than solutions.
When you get caught in other people’s drama and can’t leave the room (breathing ease can help you detach from the energetics and not get pulled in).
During meetings – breathe ease for deeper listening, better comprehension, more patience and to stay emotionally poised. But if you lose your composure, breathing ease helps you re-center, especially if you get caught up in frustrations and judgments.
After you learn to breathe in ease, you’ll find there are many situations where, while breathing ease, you can imagine that you are drawing in higher quality emotional attitudes which promote health, balance and self-security. Try breathing the feeling of non-judgment, kindness, forgiveness, increased resilience, compassion, etc. Anchoring these positive emotional qualities has been proven to help transform stress on the spot, along with their wholeness health benefits.
