Calm your mind
“You can choose your thoughts. And you can choose, for a while, to be free of those thoughts.
Serenity does not require any particular environment or conditions on the outside. Serenity is a state you can achieve on the inside, whatever else might be going on.
At any time, you can choose to calm your mind. Clear your thoughts away and for a while, feel the refreshing and renewing peace of simply being.
Discover how easy it can be to let go of the thoughts racing through your head, and let in a feeling of serenity. Choose to put yourself in a state where even the distractions cannot affect you.
See that the disappointments of the past are far, far away.
Let your peaceful, accepting experience of the moment fill you with a solid, confident energy.
Step back for a little while and feel the calm reality of who you are, of the life you are living. Enjoy a serene moment, and your eyes will be opened to the positive possibilities that are all around you.”
Ralph Marston
While reading the above quote, I started thinking, “It is hard to stop the thoughts and feel the serenity Ralph Marston is taking about.” After listening to my thoughts for awhile I started thinking about different ways of stopping them. Some of the techniques you can use are as follows:
1. Acknowledge your thoughts, they usually disappear for awhile and then you can think about something else.
2. Close your eyes and take a deep breath.
3. Start a new activity. Example: Listen to music.
4. Give yourself a big hug and say outloud, “You are safe.”
5. Write down solutions to a challenge you are thinking about.
By taking some or all of the above steps my thoughts usually stop for a short time and I feel serenity.
Please share the tools and techniques you are using to stop your thinking and feel serenity? Together we can build a community in supporting each other.
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5 comments:
Helen,
Hope you are doing well and that this note finds you at peace. Thanks for the powerful quote and the reminder that it is simple to find serentiy. Your tips and exercise that you provided should help many.
Hi Mark:
Thanks. Helen
do struggle with overwhelming thought process. I like your suggestions. Today when I have unhealthy thoughts I acknowledge that I am having an unhealthy thought and refocus what I am thinking about. I have a lot f practice with this when I do long distance running. When I start negative thinking about how I am feeling I refocus my thoughts to: I feel good and this is fun.
Hi
Thank you for sharing your tool of starting to think positively. Helen
Refocus. That's the thing that's helping me at the moment. Refocusing on the things I need to do - for me, for my house, even just for dinner! And if they look too big, I refocus smaller - on a 'piece' of task - 'chunk' an overwelming job, and trick myself into 'I'll just do this little bit' (say tidy just one drawer) and before I know it, I've done the whole lot. It is making a START that is often the hard bit for me. The mechanical action of small decisions, moving around, bagging the old clothes for the 2nd hand shop... take my mind off The Sadness, and have the added bonus of giving me a (albeit little) achievement to boost my sense of self and it's another little step on the way to feeling autonomous and happy again.
Thank you for the opportunity to write down these thoughts.
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