Feel Centered and Grounded No Matter What is Going on Around You!
Feeling safe and grounded in the world today may take some intentional practices
How to Feel Centered and Grounded no Matter WHAT is
Going on Around You!
We have definitely moved into an unfamiliar space in our lives. One in which we simply don’t have any experience on how to navigate. One in which we didn’t choose and we're not sure where it’s going to go.
It may feel strange, uncomfortable, scary, and downright overwhelming (among many other emotions) and thats ok. This space is not comfortable for most of us which then leads us to feel some degree of stress or anxiety.
I am going to give you a few suggestions to help you walk through this time with focus and balance (most of the time).
For starters, allow yourself to feel ALL of your emotions. Acknowledge your feels as they arise and honor them.
Don’t stuff your emotions and assume that they’ll just go away (hint: they won’t)
Process feelings as they arise.
How? Start by acknowledging them! Take a quiet minute (or more) to actually sit with the emotion, focus on it and call it what it is.The very act of naming the emotion you are feeling is very empowering. You may also want to notice where in your body you are feeling this emotion.
Now that you know the emotion that is visiting and perhaps where in your body it is hanging out, thank it. You heard me right. Thank this emotion for arising to communicate with you and teach you how you are feeling. Perhaps consider why this emotion has made an appearance. Now that you have felt the emotion, given it permission to be there, understood why it appeared and felt it, you can now give it permission to go. Make sure you are breathing during this process and focusing on the exhale ~ Watch what happens……..
Play “what if”. We want to uncover whats disturbing our peace so when a worry arises, call it out. Think about the worry and ask : what if the opposite of the worry ended up happening. It's been proven that only 8.6% of what you worry about actually comes true. 8.6%!
So here we’ve been wasting all of our powerful energy meditating on the negative (worrying) when the odds of it actually happening are slight!! Start reframing your thought process and create a new perspective.
Consider journaling all of your thoughts and prayers. This process of writing out your thoughts and prayers actually helps you to energetically release and clear out. This is super helpful for long term emotional clarity and balance.