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6 Mantras That Calm Your Mind and Bring Inner Peace

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Mantras are wonderful tools that you can use during meditation as well as other parts of your day. Whether you’re deep in meditation or simply trying to remind yourself of something important, a mantra is a great way to center your thoughts and keep yourself on track. If you’re having trouble developing a mantra or finding one that suits your needs, consider trying one from this varied list of six mantras to get started.

Mantra #1: “I am content with this moment.”

Mindworks suggests using the simple mantra to help yourself focus on the here and now. If your mind tends to wander during your meditation practices, this mantra can help you focus specifically on your meditation environment, mindset, and current emotions.

Mantra #2: Try a traditional Sanskrit peace mantra, such as “Om Shanti Shanti Shanti.”

If you’ve ever taken a guided meditation or yoga class, this popular peace mantra may already be familiar to you. If not, it’s a great one to use if you want to try for incorporating more mantras into your personal practice.

In Sanskrit, “shanti” means peace. By pairing it with the popular “om” and repeating the word shanti, you can help your thoughts turn toward peace and calmness.

Mantra #3: “I cannot control everything.”

This mantra may sound like basic life advice, but it’s a wonderful mantra for anyone who has trouble with anxiety or stress.

It is a fact that nobody ever has 100% control over everything happening in life. It would be easier if we could, but since we don’t, the things we can’t control often cause a lot of anxiety.

Adding this very simple mantra into your meditation practice can help you become more comfortable with the idea that some things are beyond your control. While simple, this mantra serves as a constant reminder that you can’t have total control over everything.

Mantra #4: Choose a mantra aligned with your religion or faith, such as “God is with me in this moment.”

Many people find inner peace through religion. if this is the case for you consider using your meditative practices as a way to connect deeper with your religious beliefs.

Meditation is meant to bring you a deep sense of peace, understanding, and relaxation. If it is helpful for you to find peace also and your religion, consider using a simple mantra that reminds you of the strength, peace, and hope you find through your religious beliefs. Some examples of these types of mantras can be modified to suit any belief system, such as “God is with me in this moment” or “Mother Earth is here to bring me peace,” and so on.

Mantra #5: Choose a positive affirmation as a mantra.

Mantras are a great way to add personal affirmations into your meditative practice. When we repeat a mantra, we are relaxing and introducing ourselves to a sense of peace through the repetition of our chosen word or phrase. When the phrase is something positive, it helps assert our belief and confidence in the truth behind that phrase.

Here are a few examples of positive mantras to try:

  • I am a joyful and happy person.
  • Good fortune is coming my way.
  • I am a beacon of positivity and light.
  • I am wonderfully made.
  • I deserve peace and happiness.

Mantra #6: Choose a simple assertion as a mantra.

If you find yourself struggling to achieve a certain feeling or emotion, meditating while chanting assemble assertion as a mantra can help change your attitude.

For example, if you’re feeling really angry about something that happened at work, you can have a meditation session afterwards using a simple assertion as your mantra to help redirect your anger and change your attitude. During your practice, you may repeat the mantra “I am calm” to regain your sense of calmness and allow the anger to melt away. These simple assertions can change depending on the emotion you’re calming and exploring.

6 Tips For Managing Difficult Feelings

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Life can throw a lot of unpredictable curveballs, and when those happen, it can be difficult to manage your feelings and emotions. Having emotions (even the strongest ones) are totally normal but learning to process and manage them is key to living a healthy and balanced lifestyle. If you have trouble managing difficult feelings, consider these tips to improve your skills.

  1. Learn how to identify the specific emotion(s) you’re feeling in the moment.

Identifying emotions is tough stuff. In the heat of a moment, you may think you feel one certain way, but upon further reflection, you realize you’re actually experiencing a whole conglomeration of mixed emotions! This is totally normal, though it can feel miserable. A great way to begin processing and managing these feelings is to identify each emotion.

For example, pretend your partner has made you incredibly angry because they promised to do something and then didn’t meet their end of the deal. Because they didn’t keep their promise, you have to clean up a big mess.

In the moment, you might feel like picking a fight with them because you’re so angry but take a moment to tear apart that anger and understand what else is fueling it.

You’re angry about them not keeping the promise, but you might also feel betrayed….someone you trust just let you down. You might also feel a little sad because you thought you could trust them, but they showed you otherwise. Often, our biggest and most reactive feelings have a whole package of different emotions behind them!

  • Trade your negative vocabulary for more positive phrasing.

Often, people make managing difficult emotions worse because of the way they speak to themselves about them. Having tough emotions is normal and being kind to yourself is one way to manage them.

If you make an embarrassing mistake, you may immediately think to yourself, “I am the dumbest person ever.” This negative self-talk is only going to stir even more tough feelings inside yourself. Instead, accept the embarrassment, but change your phrasing to be more positive and forward-thinking: “I made a mistake, but I will make sure I don’t do that again in the future.”

  • Don’t be afraid to reach out to somebody you trust.

When difficult feelings become too much to handle, it’s tempting to turn inward and try to fix the problems ourselves. However, this can be a dangerous move.

Hiding or suppressing difficult feelings and emotions can become a huge burden to bear alone. After a while, the balancing act of trying to keep difficult feelings tampered down can lead to negative side effects.

When your emotions and feelings become too big to handle alone, find a trusted friend you can talk to about them. Sharing your feelings with someone you trust can relieve some of the stress of those emotions from your mind.

  • Get comfortable with accepting (and even embracing) difficult feelings.

Unfortunately, life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. When things get tough, your emotions and feelings can be taken through the wringer, but this is totally normal. A good way to begin managing difficult feelings is to accept them.

Psychology Today explains that trying to brush difficult feelings aside to force a positive facade can be really damaging and dangerous to your health. Instead, learn to accept tough feelings so you can begin to process them more efficiently.

  • Find a way to keep track of your feelings and emotions.

If you’re trying to identify patterns and potential triggers for certain difficult feelings you experience, consider keeping a mood tracker or log. Keeping a physical record can make it easier to understand how frequently and when you’re experiencing serious emotional changes so you can learn your triggers and prepare yourself for future encounters with them.

  • Find a healthy outlet to release stored emotions and feelings.

Managing your difficult feelings should never involve hurting yourself or others. Rather than moodily picking an argument with a friend or loved one, learn to channel difficult emotions into an outlet of some kind.

Some people enjoy getting in physical activity to help calm difficult feelings. Others like to explore the arts and express themselves creatively. Some people find joy in speaking to professionals, such as therapists, to explore and manage difficult emotions.

5 Ways To Calm Frustration In Hard Times

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Everyone experiences hard times at some point in their life, it’s the inevitable part of being human. But it’s important to stay calm during these hard times even if you may be frustrated or stressed so you can manage the challenges which may come your way. Below are a few easy ways to help you calm your frustration in difficult times.

  1. Enjoy Your Favorite Activities

When you are facing a difficult situation, or perhaps a series of difficult situations, it may seem easy to allow the hard times to consume your thoughts completely. But don’t let this happen. No matter what may be going on in your life, make sure you take the time to enjoy your favorite activities, whatever they may be. This will do wonders to help calm any frustrations you may be experiencing as well as help keep your spirits up.

  • Search For The Bright Side

Whatever you are facing, there is a bright side, even if it may not feel like it. Even if it takes a little time, search out the bright side of your situation and focus on it. Whenever you feel the negative thoughts creeping in, stop yourself and think of the positives instead.

An example would be if you recently lost your job, you may be feeling like your future is pretty bleak. But instead of focusing on the job you lost, start thinking of all the amazing jobs and possibilities which are out there waiting for you to find them.

  • Use Stress Relaxation Tools

One of the easiest ways to calm frustration is by engaging in stress relaxation techniques. This can be anything from exercise, to meditation, or even maybe a spa day. Exercise and meditation ate techniques which are best employed when used each day, while a spa day may be something you engage in once a month. Of course, these aren’t the only stress relaxation tools, and you can use whatever technique helps you to relieve stress.

  • Spend Time With Friends And Family

Time alone during a crisis can only cause you to spend more time and negative thoughts on the crisis. Surround yourself instead with friends and family who love and support you to help keep your mind on the positives in life.

Sometimes it can help to share your trials with your social circle as they may have ideas of solutions to help you. But you also don’t have to, just spending time with those who you care about can do wonders to help calm your frustration and stress.

  • Look Forward Not Back

When tough times hit, it may be tempting to look back and think about all the things you could have possibly done differently, but don’t do this as it will only make your problem seem worse. Instead, think of the future, and all the amazing places you are going to go. If you don’t have a vision board, or written down goals, now is the time to create some. You may also benefit from journaling about your plans for the future and all the great things that you know you will accomplish.

Conclusion

When you are facing a difficult time in life, it can be difficult to calm your frustrations. But you need to learn to do so in order to face your situation head on and prepare for the future. If you struggle with calming frustrations, try to do activities you love, engage in stress relaxation techniques, and spend time with family and friends. No matter what you decide to try, just remember to always seek out the positive, and look forward towards your bright future.

How A Guided Meditation Can Reduce Your Stress

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What Is A Stress Response?

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Stress is an emergency response system that evolved to allow our ancestors to thwart attacks on their life, like attacks from a wild animal or other situations encountered when living in the wild unknown. The stress system response evolved in order to allow the body excess adrenaline and cortisol, which are hormones that are initiated during the fight or flight response. When this state is activated, blood and other nutrients are diverted from the organs and the immune system is lowered in order to conserve energy for the fight or flight.

This means, either fighting a wild animal or running from it to try to reach safety. Yet, in modern times, we are typically not chased by wild animals in our everyday lives. Instead, we are attacked by modern pressures of work and life and other responsibilities.

We may feel like we are under immense pressure all the time and therefore cannot get out of the fight or flight mode. When this happens, we often refer to the issue vaguely as “stress.” Stress means that rather than the body being in a mode to rest and digest, it is pumped up and ready to run. Because the situation of stress is chronic for most people in modern times, this can begin to cause negative effects on the mind and body.

Chronic exposure to stress can weaken the immune system and can even change the DNA and may cause early aging and health decline. Long-term stress can also lead to inflammation and other symptoms like depression, anxiety, autoimmune disease, hypertension, headaches, and other issues.

Sometimes it is obvious that chronic stress is the culprit, and other times, when someone has been living with high stress levels for a long time, they may begin to see this as their normal functioning and not even notice how affected they are or which symptoms are related.

Mindfulness and attention to our health and wellness through guided meditation can allow us to make new connections about our health and can introduce a framework for making new and healthier choices in everyday life, leading to lower stress levels and greater fulfillment.

How to Manage Stress Levels with Guided Meditation

Guided meditation is a listening meditation that involves a short, guided session that takes us through a series of imaginative scenarios to help us see clearly the past and create a new vision for the future.

Topics vary for guided mediation and can involve self-confidence, health and reducing stress levels and reducing anxiety. Stress is not something that is out of control, but rather it is something that with attention and patience can become a motivating factor for change in our lives. When we experience high stress or even extreme mental breakdown, we are experiencing a mirror for our actions and our lifestyle. These high stress times allow us to see where we are pushing our limits and how we can best reel back out energies and actions to something that is more manageable and makes us happy.

Instead of always striving to do more and be better, we can see where we have gone too far and pushed ourselves too hard. We can see where we made compromises and didn’t stay true to our values. Guided meditation allows us to recognize these instances and take note of them without condemning ourselves or wishing for a different outcome.

Instead we can reflect through guided meditation and create a new understanding of our story and how we came to be in our current situation. Only when we see this clearly can we take insightful action towards a new reality. Practicing guided meditation daily allows for the consistency of change to manifest in our lives throughout the seasons.

Healing From Within With Positive Affirmations

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Using affirmations is a practice to heal from within and allows us to cancel, negate and correct old negative thought patterns. Positive affirmations can improve our health and can help us live more fulfilling lives by helping us change our thought patterns to more positive and meaningful ideas. Thoughts are mental cognitions that we often perceive as real and factual, which can lead to an emotional response.

We may have experienced trauma or other painful encounters throughout our lives that have formed mental constructs in our minds. Maybe we were bullied or made fun of. Maybe we had a traumatic upbringing, or little family support, or a career that didn’t carry us as far in life as we had imagined it would.

Whatever the issue, we can begin to form more positive and meaningful experiences when we can change our thought patterns and mindset to be more opportunistic. Doing this will allow our mind to be open to new ideas and ways of acting in the world so that we can take on new experiences without fear and with excitement. Positive affirmations are for self-confidence and power and stamina, and are also for healing, surrender and accountability.

Recognizing Our Thought Patterns

The first step to implementing positive affirmations for healing is to recognize our thought patterns and understand the root cause of our suffering or overwhelm. When it comes to our healing, we want to dig deep to determine where to do the work and where we are healed enough already to let go and move on. When a certain aspect of our lives is repetitious and keeps coming back unresolved, we know we need to do deep work.

Diving into positive affirmations is a great way to begin this practice of reformation of the mind. We first want to recognize our thought patterns and understand where our thoughts are coming from. When we have experienced trauma or another issue we are dissatisfied with, we may begin to form detrimental thought patterns around the situation.

We might begin to internalize or believe other people’s projections or ideas about us that are not necessarily true. Instead of allowing thought patterns and mindsets to control us, we can take control and make a decision to improve our mindset and make a new reality.

How to Use Positive Affirmations

Creating change in our lives using positive affirmations is an easy practice but can be very profound. The practice of using positive affirmations involves the repetition of a phrase or idea that is new to the mind and cancels out or changes a negative thought or belief that we hold.

When we identify a negative thought or belief, we can ask ourselves what is at the root of the belief. Follow the thought back to its origins in your life and begin to ask yourself when and why you started having a particular belief about something or yourself. Then, change the thought to one that is more positive and productive for you.

If you had a thought that made you feel inferior or ashamed, you can identify this and choose a new thought and statement that affirms your self-confidence and self-identity. You can choose to implement a new idea and repeat it again and again until it begins to take shape and manifest in your life.

Some positive affirmations work quickly while other thoughts and beliefs change over months, years and even decades. Yet, when we commit to changing our mindset and bringing in healing through positive affirmations, we are guaranteed to be gifted with a new outlook and perspective that brings peace and healing along our journey.

How Guided Meditations Can Help You Heal From Within

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When we experience something difficult or traumatic in our lives, we often are subject to remnants of the event that stay lodged in our mind and body. These experiences create conditioned responses that can affect the way we make decisions and can impact aspects of our lives we are unaware of.

When we experience stress or other events that seem to be out of our control, we can experience a level of fear over what is to come. Instead of worrying about the future or stressing about the past, it can be helpful to take a look at ourselves from the inside out and examine our beliefs about ourselves.

When we experience hardship, we can often take it personally and begin to think there is something inherently wrong with us, or that we were the cause of something negative. Even if this is true, we cannot take on all the responsibility for negative things that happen in life. The essence of life is that change is constant and that birth and death are all processes of life.

Sometimes we engage with life in a way that is positive and meaningful and leads to outcomes we desire. Other times, life throws unexpected events at us and we need to determine whether we are going to take them personally, sink into victimhood, become defeated and give up or blame others.

Or we can choose to rise above the situation, see where we can glean wisdom from the experience, and be confident in ourselves and what we have to offer. We can remind ourselves that we are special and have a unique perspective and experience that can show us how to be our best.

One practice for experiencing our own forgiveness and understanding ourselves more deeply is by engaging in the process of meditation. Meditation is a practice of contemplation that allows us to calm the mind and pay attention to our thoughts and emotions.

When we can clearly see the mental experiences that we are having in our minds, we can begin to understand ourselves more fully. When we take time to understand ourselves, we can offer ourselves a greater compassion and honesty. This can allow us to forgive ourselves for any mistakes we have made and begin to start with a fresh perspective that allows us to be more gentle with ourselves.

How to Practice Guided Meditation

Guided meditation is a practice of listening to a recorded audio or visual while relaxing and envisioning and imagining. Guided meditations can also be done live by a professional teacher or therapist. During the guided meditation session, the teacher will lead a series of ideas, thoughts, or mantras that the participant can envision and imagine. Often the topics of stress relief, self-confidence, and healing are commonly touched upon in guided meditation. Specific mediations can be found for healing from within while reducing stress and alleviating traumatic response, acknowledging, and releasing grief, guilt and other negative reactions and ideas we hold onto.

When we listen to a guided meditation, we reprogram the subconscious mind to align with the conscious mind so we can make changes to our outlook and to our experience. The best part about guided meditation is that we can relax and let our trusted guide lead us to a space of mindfulness.

We can create new images and ideas in our minds that offer a positive outlook and can begin to implement changes in our lives that will directly relate to a new experience. When we practice guided meditation regularly, the phrases and offerings will begin to create a new reality that will in turn allow us to react differently to our pain and suffering. Even ideas we have held onto for a long time can be changed or lessened through focused meditation and mindfulness.

The Guided Meditation: Perfect For Beginners To Meditating

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According to the Chopra Center, “Navigating the depths of consciousness on your own can be tough, especially for beginners. Guided meditations provide the assistance of a teacher or guide to walk you through the process and help you find a calm and peaceful state – one step at a time.”

Many people have heard of meditation and the benefits of the practice and wonder how to get started meditating. Engaging in meditation is a great way to lower stress levels and relax the mind and body. People who experience chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and other symptoms can benefit from the practice of meditation.

What Is Guided Meditation

Guided meditation is a meditation practice led by an experienced teacher, either in person, via a live broadcast, or by means of pre-recorded audio or video. Though guided meditation can be used by anyone, it is more frequently used by those new to meditation, as the added assistance and support of a teacher can be helpful when first embarking upon the practice.

Guided meditations generally teach participants the basics of meditation techniques as well as offering instruction and insight into how the mind and thoughts work, how to better understand and relate to your thoughts and emotions, how to use meditation techniques in daily life, and how to settle the mind and body for meditation.

In modern times, meditation is a great practice that should be on everyone’s mind. Engaging in meditation each day can retrain the mind at the conscious and subconscious levels and can begin to shift the outlook. Starting a meditation practice is easy, and only requires setting aside a few minutes each day to sit in silence and notice one’s thoughts. Some people have a lot of trouble sitting still and therefore need a more engaging practice of meditation.

Guided meditations are recorded meditations that lead the listener through a series of visualizations to create a new reality. Listening to guided meditations each day can be an easy way to get started with meditation.

How To Start Meditating

When beginning a meditation practice, many people prefer to begin with a short sequence around 5 minutes. Adding a 5-minute meditation once or twice per day can be completely transformative. After five minutes of meditation becomes easy to accomplish, add five minutes to your meditation time.

Many people meditate for 20-30 minutes each day, and some people engaged in spiritual practice traditionally meditate for 2 hours each morning. Yet, meditation is a practice that is accessible for everyone who wants to improve their life experience and lower their stress levels.

Many styles of meditation can be done throughout the day, like mantra, affirmation, and loving-kindness. Yet, when engaged in guided meditation, it is important to give attention to the practice by sitting or lying quietly where there is little distraction and noise.

Now, find a guided meditation that is the proper length for your practice.

A guided meditation may be five minutes long and can range in content from positive affirmations to guided imagery to color visualization therapy. There is much variety in the topics and ideas to choose from.

A simple online search should reveal plenty of options for recorded meditations. Try to choose a guided meditation by a teacher or professional you trust and can connect with. Set the intention to heal and for beneficial outcomes for all.

Many guided meditations are available for online streaming for free or can be downloaded to your device for easier access. It is also possible to have a personalized guided meditation made by a teacher or other professional. It is possible to find guided meditations for self-empowerment, health and wellness, manifestation, and other lifestyle improvement topics.

Many guided meditations invoke elements of nature, animals, plants, colors, and other visualizations to engage the mind and body and create a new vibration of energy within the system.

Why Guided Meditation?

In guided meditation, the teacher leads the listener through a series of visualizations or journeys to engage the mind and body and establish relaxation and the space for insight. Listening to a guided meditation each day helps to reprogram the conscious and subconscious mind.

When the audio and visualization is done day after day, it is possible to create a new reality and a new experience of the world. Meditation is a practice in becoming aware of our ideas about life. So, when we meditate, we are reflecting on our experiences and allowing a different understanding of how we choose to let events affect us.

Committing to listening to guided meditation every day creates a regularity of practice that is dependable. This practice can lower stress levels and can also allow space for long-term change in lifestyle.

Morning Rituals: Setting the Stage for a Serene Day

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Rituals can change the way we view the day and can improve our well-being and quality of life. Having a set routine helps us develop good habits and reach our goals and aspirations, while rituals improve our mood and shape our beliefs. They allow us to keep ourselves accountable and stay motivated on the days we do not want to get out of bed.

Morning rituals are the best way to set our days up for success and stay in control of the day, regardless of outside factors. The way that you wake up each morning will dramatically increase your quality of life and balance your stress levels, allowing you to feel calm and at peace throughout the rest of the day.

What is a Morning Ritual?

Both routines and rituals are crucial to a positive state of mind and maintaining mental stability. However, it is important to know that they are not the same thing but that they complement one another. A morning ritual takes on a task that may be part of one’s routine and puts meaning and intention behind it.

Rituals are habits that an individual develops to nurture and build a strong mindset. They allow us to appreciate the benefits that our routines provide to us for our daily lives and provide value beyond completing a task.

Rituals are self-empowering and allow us to change our perspective on reality. They allow us to reinforce habits with reasoning behind them that can be very effective on improving our mental health and emotions.

Examples of Morning Rituals

Gratitude

Gratitude reinforces happiness and can set the tone for a positive outlook on the day. It allows you to appreciate the little moments that occur throughout the day and finding ways to be grateful for whatever the day presents.

One way to practice gratitude is through journaling. By making a list each morning of the things you are most grateful for, you will train your mind to look for moments of appreciation throughout the rest of the day. Starting your day off with a grateful mind is the best way to stay positive and full of joy each and every day.

Goals and Aspirations

Writing down your goals and how you will achieve them is the best way to stay motivated and keep yourself accountable. It is easy to say a goal out loud but writing it down and staying attuned to it each morning will make you more likely to achieve it and stick to it.

Along with your gratitude journal, writing down the ways you will try to achieve your goals and make progress each morning will get you closer and closer to your goals. Goals that you think about each and every morning will keep you dedicated and committed no matter what obstacles arise.

Meditation

Meditation is a great practice to keep your mind healthy and productive throughout the day. By clearing your mind for a short period of time each morning, you will notice the positive impacts that meditating has on many different components of your life.

Research has shown that meditation has direct links with happiness, reduced anxiety and depression, balanced emotions, and alertness. When you acknowledge and sit with your emotions, you will notice that they no longer follow you throughout the day and prevent you from completing your daily tasks.

Meditation has tons of benefits that will improve your perspective on reality and your calmness throughout the day. Meditating will also help you realize gratitude and focus on your aspirations while staying as productive and dedicated as possible.

Serenity 101: What It Means To Live A Serene Life And Be Serene

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We rush from task to task, making a daily concerted effort to complete something. Often, it feels as though you’re trying to run up the down escalator. We speed along to the next thing, constantly in a rush to get it over with, to speed to the next thing. Rarely do we reach what we consider to be our final destination. When we do manage it, we look around at the chaos we created and realize that it was all down to us.

We are stressed out, completely exhausted by the daily grind. We never have enough time for the things we truly value or what we’d like to be doing. It might feel like there’s no other choice, but the reality of the matter is that it doesn’t need to be this way. You can live a simple life (or, simpler, at least). You can enjoy life; you can find serenity instead of rushing from thing to thing.

Everyone wants serenity. This elusive state that we are convinced only monks can achieve. Serenity makes you better equipped to handle life. You become more adept at handling problems. Once upon a time, something that seemed like a massive catastrophe is merely a small issue.

You can react with clear, steady thinking. It’s impossible to achieve this without effort. To become a serene person and live a serene life, you must build positive mental habits to create a peaceful mind. You need to eat well and exercise to support a healthy body.

Simplify Life

You can go Marie Kondo and toss everything that doesn’t spark joy in your life. However, simplifying your life doesn’t necessarily mean weighing up only material items. Look at your life. Are there things you’re obsessed with? Do you have too much stuff? So much that it’s packed away because you don’t really know what else to do with it? Do you have a nasty shopping habit, even though you don’t need stuff?

This isn’t about throwing everything away. It’s about building a healthy relationship with material wealth and possessions. It isn’t about want, it’s about need.

Ego

Your ego can create havoc, it’s constantly trying to prove you’re better than everyone else. It judges, it compares, and it’s exhausting. Try to pay more attention to it in action. You will see a difference between what you really want to do versus what your ego suggests you do. Are you chasing a goal or a dream because it’s what you want or because it feels like it’s what you should want? The latter isn’t going to help you find serenity.

Let Go

The anger and resentment you carry with you makes life heavy. You are going to experience disappointment because people will always let you down. It’s natural. You can’t influence the hurt they cause; you can only influence your response to the pain they cause. It’s time to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume the hurt is misguided versus intentional. It’s an important aspect of finding serenity.

Mindfulness & Compassion

To find true serenity, you need to be mindful of your emotions, actions, and thoughts. Be conscious about what you say, how you act, how you feel, and what you think. Self-observation will help you understand yourself better and meditation will help you transform yourself. Pay attention to your intentions and be willing to get to know yourself on a deeper level.

Compassion is something that you should extend to yourself as well as to others. Judge yourself less, be kind to yourself, revel in joy. Forgive, forget, practice compassion, and move forward. That is what it means to live a serene life and be serene.