Simple Acts of Calm: Sitting Still
It sounds simple enough doesn't it? Sitting still. Not scurrying, pacing, rushing, texting, talking, but sitting, breathing, being. Yet, for the overstimulated mind sitting still is not so easy.
Simple Acts of Calm: Loosen Your Grip
I first noticed the tension my body was holding some time ago while brushing my teeth. I'd been doing some work on awareness and conscious relaxation and as I stood at the sink performing a daily task that requires minimal energy I discovered I was holding my toothbrush with white knuckle tension.
Simple Acts of Calm: Take Time Out to Relax Your Mind
Today's Simple Act of Calm is about invoking spells of relaxation as an antidote to mental stress and tension.
You've no doubt heard countless times about the negative effects of stress on your health and mental well-being. It also affects the choices you make about your lifestyle and diet and you may find yourself grabbing meals to go and collapsing in your bed exhausted, but with a racing mind, at the end of the day.
Simple Acts of Calm: The Silent Witness
This Simple Act of Calm employs the art of watching without doing. Your challenge is to spend the day watching the world around you without reacting to, or commenting on, what you see and hear. The idea is to watch without judgement, to keep your feelings neutral and, as best you can, tread lightly and quietly through your day.
Watching without reacting puts us in a peaceful place of detached observation. Somewhere where we can listen and observe but feel free from investing our emotions and energy in what's going on around us.