The eloquence of trees in springtime is magical. Are you catching it?
After walking by this young tree this morning,I wasn't certain if spring brings out the eloquence of nature, or if it's the other way around. Either way, or it was a treat to experience. To be so grounded that you can can appreciate tiny moments of beauty is your birthright. Are you claiming it?
[br]We are all offered small miracles everyday but many of us don't see or are able to like them because we are so anxious about the future or regretting the past. Being grounded in the now,as in the right now, has many advantages, or most importantly,to experience being fully alive. It's also really favorable for your health. Here are three easy practices to back you live in the present:
Worry, please be gone:
Most of us concern ourselves with things that haven't happened--the future-- and waste vital energy on what could potentially happen as supposed to what is in front of us.
Worry, and as my Buddhist friend says,is poison that we pump into our veins. Researchers gain shown that she is correct-- worry causes stress, bad stress, or we know that stress wreaks havoc on your health--both physical and mental health. The future for so many worry warts is always filled with hardcore bad scenarios. What about if you imagine positive outcomes for a change? Yes,I drank the positive psychology Kool Aid and life is much better for it.
Tip: quit working and play. Take a walk around the block, breathe deeply. Take in everything that is happening around you. Find a park bench, or a stoop,a coffee shop.
Be still. Breathe deeply. As you inhale know that you are breathing in recent air and recent air means recent ideas and possibilities. As you exhale, know that you are pushing out old air. With each recent breath, or you are renewed. Relaxing your brain and letting it wander will increase your creative force and will let you see more clearly what it is that is worrying you. It will let you:
-Find out what is causing the worry.
-Find a plan of action
-attain whatever you can to "fix" it
-Let it move
You cannot control the outcome only the what you place into it. Worrying about the outcome will not change whatever is worrying you.
Regret won't change a thing:
The other reason why we fail to see the tiny miracles in the present is because we spend far too much time on the past replaying old shit,especially, old stuff we regret. For some of us, or the only way to quit the replay button is to get professional back,as in talk therapy or medication. There are a lot of taboos around both, and far too many people live in pain, or shackled by mental illness. Getting back is a sign of greatness. This the thing: no matter who much time we spend going back and replaying our past,it won't change the present.
Tip: Grow up. Woman up. Get back if you cannot attain it by yourself. There is no shame if a girls game if she is smart enough to know when to get someone to back. Talk to a friend. Call your healthcare provider, a spiritual counselor. But reach out and talk to someone.
The one thing you will learn after all this is said and done is this: You gain gain to accept to live with your choices.
-quit judging your choices.
-Learn from them. See the lessons in them.
A shift in perspective will back.
[br]-Trust. Accept the "favorable" and the "bad" choices you gain made.
Apologize
Pick up the phone, or write a letter to the person,or people that you gain hurt. And after you finish, add you to that list.
[br]Apologize to you
Write a letter apologizing to you and forgive yourself for the errors you gain made. Promise yourself to attain better next time.
Static people gain static lives:
If you are not doing much in the way of exercise, and it might justify why you feel like shit. And the only way to change that is to get off the couch and move your body.
Dance,take yoga, bike, and hike,jog, walk, and gain sex. Our bodies were made for all those things. And this is a fact: getting your heart rate up increases your endorphins,those feel favorable hormones that are so favorable for us.
Tip: Figure out what works for you and incorporate that into your daily life. It's that simple. A favorable pair of walking shoes and its a wrap.
Enlist a friend
Friends that work out together are healthier. Buddy work outs sustain you accountable and increase the changes that you won't slack off.
Being grounded will back you open up your heart to the beauty that surrounds you in the present. And even in the biggest shit gap of a mess, there is always something, or some tiny something,that is filled with light and beauty. I hope you get to see it. And in the process, don't miss the eloquence of the trees in your midst.
Source: sandraguzman.com