5. Meditation and Breath Work
It might seem cliche, but the truth is that a regular meditation practice can have a very positive effect on our attitude towards life. Take some time out daily to quiet your mind even if it’s just 5 minutes a day. This helps to soothe your nerves and to feel stress-free. When you don’t feel stressed, you send and receive good vibes from everyone and feel happy about your life and your relationships. You can also do give breath work a try- focused breathing techniques that can reduce tension in our mind and body and is a great combo to meditation.
There are heaps of meditation styles to explore. The meditating technique concentration meditation is used to focus on a single point and mindful meditation is used to control wandering thoughts. There is also TM, guided meditations and visualisations. I encourage you to experiment with the different styles. No matter which style you try, meditation can provide various benefits such as lower blood pressure, improved blood circulation, lower heart rate, less perspiration, slower respiratory rate, less anxiety and lesser stress. The following steps can help you to start meditating:
- Sit back or lie as comfortable as possible and close your eyes.
- Breathe naturally and don’t try to control it.
- Now breathe by focusing your attention on it and notice how your body moves with each inhalation and exhalation. Observe how your thorax, chest and abdomen move during breathing. Just notice the movement without controlling the breathing process. Start doing this for 2 to 3 minutes and then increase the duration.
- Meditation will help you in many ways to boost your mind, body and soul and feel unstoppable if you can stick to it.
6. Love Yourself
In our busy world, we often don’t get enough time for ourselves and ignore our well-being which just leads to mental and physical health issues. So, it’s very important to take some time out for yourself from your busy routine. When we neglect ourselves and never take a break for any sort of self-care it can lead us into the never-ending work routines with no fun or pleasure. This is what causes us to feel stuck, unmotivated and to start feeling down or frustrated.
The easy solution to this problem is to take care of you. If you don’t, then who will? Take out some “me-time” from your around-the-clock schedule and treat yourself with something nice to relieve the stress. And do not feel selfish about it. Because when you feel good, you’re able to take better care of your relationships and work more effectively and efficiently.
There is no specific thumb of rule to take care of yourself; you can plan whatever you like to do to feel refreshed. However, here is a list of things that makes most people feel happy:
- Spend some time alone with you, away from the running world, in some calm and quiet place. You can go for a morning walk or anything you love to do while alone. But don’t put on TV or laptop. Just be with yourself.
- Analyse what you have been doing and appreciate yourself for your achievements and encourage attaining more.
- Read your favorite book or poetry.
- Focus your energy on being a beautiful person on the inside rather than the outward beauty.
- Get up early in the morning, eat healthy through the day, indulge in some exercise and meditation and go to bed early. This healthy routine will keep your mind and body on the right track and your soul will automatically feel refreshed and unstoppable.
