[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Many people expressed appreciation for the deep breath exercise last week. Share another practice that you use to center yourself. Let’s help fill each other’s self-care toolkits!
- Cat stretching before I get out of bed followed by a glass of water.
- Essential oils and hot tea help me come into the present!
- Go for a walk.
- Gratitude exercise of listing 3 things you’re grateful for each day or looking at the world like you’re seeing it through the eyes of a child.
- Guided Mindfulness Meditations: http://www.rockymountainmindfulness.org/audio.html
- I have used the deep breathing in the past and find that it really is helpful, I will continue to do that.
- I hyper focus using my senses. For example, if I’m taking a drink of water, I fully engage my mouth with the sip – noticing if it’s bubbly, uses different tastes, if it’s cold or warm, if some stays on my lips.
- I try to meditate twice a day and have felt at times that it has been helpful. I am under a lot of stress and feelings quite isolated as I have very little in-person contact that is positive in nature.
- I use a modality called EFT several times a day to help deal with stress and sleep.
- I vacuum.
- If I consciously begin to name all that I have to be grateful for, I become calmer.
- Journaling, meditation
- Lighting candles and appreciating the flame, the warm glow and flicker.
- Look out my window and do 10 eye blinks a couple times a day
- My sister introduced me to a relaxation product, “Calm”. It has gentle music with beautiful nature videos, waterfalls, rain, bubbling mountain streams, etc. She put a link on my laptop’s desktop. I find it helpful and immediately available. (It also has verbal meditations, but I haven’t used those.)
- Prayer & meditation
- Quiet mindfulness and an appreciation of the focusing nature of silence.
- S.T.O.P.:
- Stop
- Take three deep breaths
- Observe how you are feeling
- Proceed with love into the world
- Stand and walk as if a Zen master is pulling towards them from your center.
- Stretching exercises
- Try moving away from Self to Principle 7, etc.
- Use breath work
- Walking
- When feeling anxious I review the 5 senses that I am experiencing in that moment. Really helps!
- Yoga Centering prayer
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