Make time to unwind
Category: #mindfulness
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Managing COVID-19 Stress
Chronic Stress
When you’re chronically stressed or overwhelmed you tend to keep reacting in the same emotional way over and over. This conditions your nervous system to potentially (mis)read your environment based on past experiences, and the associations and perceptions you’ve formed around those experiences. It also trains your mind to automatically think more negative thoughts and… Read More Chronic Stress
Stress is unavoidable
Stress is unavoidable and can, under the right conditions, even be beneficial. We can’t escape stress, but we can befriend it. We can learn to control our stress response and channel that energy in constructive and creative ways. If you’re experiencing chronic stress or feeling constantly on edge chances are you’ve got an overactive sympathetic… Read More Stress is unavoidable
Parasympathetic nervous system
When the parasympathetic nervous system is activated, it produces a calm and relaxed feeling in the mind and body. People can learn to trigger their parasympathetic nervous system to immediately reduce their sense of anxiety and stress. Everything you perceive through your senses – everything you can see, hear, taste, smell, intuit, and touch is… Read More Parasympathetic nervous system
Without the dark, we cannot see the light.
Without the dark, we cannot see the light.Without the silence, we cannot hear the music.Without the possibility of its absence, we cannot feel the love.– Lauren Fins –
Happiness
Happiness is not found through changing our external world,but through changing our internal landscape.– Shauna Shapiro –
Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
If we keep our attention focused on the present, we can be sure of one thing, namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment will change, giving us the opportunity to practice accepting whatever it is that will emerge in the next moment. Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance. – Jon Kabat-Zinn… Read More Clearly, there is wisdom in cultivating acceptance.
