Mind-Body Balance | How is Your Life Today?
Where do you find your mind-body balance? Where to start? What does this all mean?
The impact of our chaotic lives on our mental state is bringing more awareness and concern about how we achieve a healthy mind-body balance. Physicians and psychologists didn’t need additional caseloads. Here we are, and the impact that the new normal is having has a direct short-term and long-term impact on our lives.
Mindfulness and Meditation
We all struggle. In addition, we all have difficult days. Our emotions get the best of us. I’ve written before about the benefits of yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and relaxation to calm nerves, strengthen your mind and body, and bring you into a new state of bliss. Why are these things helpful now?
Living For Today
Life is hard enough, but when depression or anxiety creeps into your life due to your work-from-home situation, things can be hard. Multi-tasking. After all, Zoom meetings, leading a team, managing a budget, working in a basement office, and handling kids each day can wear us down. In addition, your job can be tough. On top of that, your spouse may be working in the other office/bedroom, also at home, dealing with the same stress levels.
What I am seeing is the pandemic has sparked recurrences of depression for many. When you have moments of depression, you may not feel comfortable looking ahead, or how you will get through the day, of it you feel comfortable in your life. That’s where the healing process of mindfulness comes in.
How Do I Get Started?
Carve out time during the day to manage your mind. Your mind-body balance. You won’t get results immediately, but you will build upon the process. It’s going to take some time.
Find your quiet spot. Sit down, close your eyes, and concentrate on the positives in your life. Your health. The family. Your career. Block out all negative thoughts and emotions. You can accomplish this simple task in five minutes.
Give gratitude. Extend gratitude to your higher power and talk with yourself and/or your spouse about the things you are most grateful for. If that is the fact that the sun is shining and it’s a beautiful day, then you are on the right track. Again, this can be a short, five-minute exercise.
Stretch your body. Experience some of the simple benefits that exercise can bring. Perform basic stretches such as arms, legs, and tension areas. This doesn’t have to be a full, sweat-induced workout. It’s simply a way to reconnect with your body to balance the mental energies you’ll use during the day.
Mind-Body Balance. Begin Today…Results Will Follow
Begin for 15 minutes each day. Concentrate on the parts of your mind that need cleansing, clarity, and re-focus. Stretch out your body. You’ll be on the path to a better mental-body balance, and we all can use that.
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