Every person sooner or later finds himself in a situation where it is necessary to find peace of mind and try to stop being nervous and worried. This is when the question arises of how to find peace within yourself. The answer is quite simple and is described below, but reading alone is not enough, you need to work on yourself.
Harmony can be achieved when a person is ready to work with his feelings
Accept the circumstances
Past events cannot be changed. If you immerse yourself in long-term experiences, you will only increase the negativity in your life. Acceptance is a conscious level of understanding. You agree that the circumstances came into your life for a certain experience that you must go through. Learn the right lessons from your experiences and move forward without clinging to the past.
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How is meditation useful?
The global scientific community has repeatedly studied meditation, noting its various effects. Here are a few of them:
- Improves attention and concentration.
The practitioner focuses on a specific object and disconnects from the analysis of internal dialogue. This ability gradually transfers into everyday life. Tasks are completed faster and with better quality. It becomes easier to multitask and stress. - Pain sensations are reduced.
In terms of the strength of its effects, meditation is equated to morphine. - Depression goes away
. This conclusion was made based on a study conducted among 400 Belgian schoolchildren. Worry and anxiety disappear six months after the start of practice. Other scientists decided to compare the effects of meditation and cognitive behavioral therapy. It turned out that both methods relieved depression to the same extent. - The need for sleep decreases
, rest time is reduced. The practitioner needs less time to sleep. - The concentration of gray matter increases
. This applies to areas of the brain responsible for learning and involved in memory, planning and control of emotions. - Efficiency increases when performing monotonous, same-type work.
For the study, people who regularly practice meditation (including teachers) and beginners were selected. Thanks to this concentration, thickness increases in cortical areas that are associated with visual, auditory, interoceptive, and somatosensory processing. Regular practice compensates for the loss of cognitive ability in older people. - Control of attention deficit is ensured
. The control group showed decreased levels of hyperactivity and impulsivity.
A person’s mood improves, cardiac activity and blood pressure normalize, and the functioning of the immune system improves. The person becomes more energetic and cheerful.
Develop spiritually
Be alone with yourself more often. In silence it is easier for us to hear ourselves and dissolve in the present moment. Developing mindfulness helps spiritual development and achieving inner peace and balance. You will begin to more easily understand your internal reactions and responses to people, situations, and the outside world. Use meditation and explore other self-discovery practices.
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Meditation is an affirmation for finding inner harmony and joy of life.
Worry and Anxiety. How to get rid of anxiety.
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How to find peace of mind: 5 tips from psychologists
Harmony with yourself and peace of mind are the key to a happy, healthy and carefree life. Stress, failures, and accumulated negativity negatively affect a person’s health and psyche, which significantly affects the quality of life. This is why it is very important to find peace of mind. This can be done in different ways: by attending trainings, resorting to esoteric rituals, reading the calming prayer “Spyridon of Trimifuntsky”, communicating with friends. However, the most effective and efficient are often the special techniques recommended by most psychologists.
Let's fight negative thoughts
The main instigator of anxiety is negative thoughts. The more we think about the bad, the more we worry. Even thinking about trying to get rid of any problems can provoke the development of nervousness. In such thoughts it is very easy to lose your bearings in life and your own self.
Of course, without reasoning about how to proceed and get out of a difficult situation, it is impossible to solve problems. However, even in this case, you need to know a certain limit, otherwise you can bring yourself to a nervous breakdown.
Each thought in life should be given a place, but preference should always be given to the positive. In any case, try to find the good in everything. Just like dark yin, our thoughts should also contain a bit of white yang.
Psychologists advise fighting negative thoughts, especially if they are not related to an important matter. Fill your mind with positive thoughts, praise yourself mentally, set yourself up for good things and life will become easier.
Away from worries - forward to action
Experiences do not bring any benefit, they only harm. Useless hours-long dramas and a feeling of hopelessness only provoke the emergence of new negativity. Instead, go on the offensive.
There is a problem? Find solutions and eradicate it. If you have a subtle mental organization, are overly impressionable and sensitive, try to avoid what provokes negative emotions.
In the modern world of advanced technology and with 24/7 access to the Internet, it is difficult to avoid negative impressions. In this case, you can always do something useful both for yourself and for those around you. Caring for others, volunteering, and helping animal shelters will not only calm you down, but also strengthen your sense of self-worth.
Getting rid of an exorbitant load
Important advice from psychologists: do not take on what you cannot bear. An exorbitant burden, excessive responsibility, a lot of worries and tasks can unsettle anyone and disturb peace of mind.
Choose activities that suit you, do not try to do more than your moral and physical condition allows. Overwork not only disrupts mental balance, but also negatively affects health.
Be prudent and realistically assess your own strengths, otherwise there will be no peace in life.
Meditation and healthy habits as a cleansing method
In a healthy body healthy mind! A healthy spirit means peace of mind and tranquility, contentment with one’s own life and joy in the little things. Proper nutrition and following the principles of a healthy lifestyle will definitely help with this. However, the best way to find peace of mind is meditation.
Meditation and yoga are great for helping you relax, get rid of accumulated negativity and find yourself. Through meditation, you can eradicate unwanted thoughts, let go of your mind and open up space for new, bright and joyful events that will not keep you waiting.
Forget about the bustle, but at the same time try not to be late. Meditation will be an ideal assistant for this. Get healthy habits, eat right, do exercises in the morning, think about your own health.
Filling life with bright colors
Having a good time is an ideal way to cope with negative emotions and gain peace of mind. It is very important to do something that evokes exclusively positive feelings, and this applies not only to hobbies and free time activities, but also to work.
Various hobbies will help make life sparkle with new bright colors:
Reading motivating, life-affirming books and classic literature;
Physical exercise, dancing or extreme sports that promote the production of the happiness hormone;
Finding new hobbies, be it drawing, singing, sculpting, sewing or knitting;
Meeting old friends and making new acquaintances, searching for circles of interests;
Purchasing a pet that you have long dreamed of;
Visiting unusual and fascinating places, traveling;
Buying things that have been put off for a long time. It is important to take into account that it would be best to purchase something that was rejected only because of impracticality. The main thing is that it must be desired.
These options will help you feel happy and alive. And a happy person, as a rule, does not suffer from emotional distress. Time constantly busy with something new and interesting simply won’t be enough for negative feelings, anxiety and melancholy.
Psychology in the service of calm
Follow the advice of psychologists and master psychological techniques that help restore calm, silence and balance of thinking in your soul in situations where negative emotions are out of your control.
- At the moment of the event, when you are ready to explode, you should count to ten and back. Try to breathe deeply. By the end of the count, the veil before your eyes will go away and you will no longer want to bring that heavy vase down on your opponent’s head.
- “Get out” of the situation. Look at her like a stranger passing by. How would you evaluate what is happening if it concerned not you, but that impressive man?
- Restore mental balance after stress by grounding. In the literal sense: walk barefoot on the ground or grass, hug a tree or press your spine against it, eat “earth” foods - potatoes, carrots.
- Place yourself mentally in a protective ball of bulletproof glass. Imagine that you are inside and the evil words of your boss hit the walls of the ball and fall to the floor with a ringing sound. Believe me, he will also feel something “wrong” at this moment. He will feel uncomfortable, but you will feel very comfortable in your ball.
Sleeping during childhood
Information about the need to get a good night's sleep is given from each iron. However, we often try to do a bunch of things before we fall dead into bed and get what we think is a restful sleep. Let's make another attempt to learn to go to bed before 23.00 hours?
Then very soon 6-7 hours will be enough for you to fully recover.
What will you get in this case besides restoring calm and undoubtedly gaining peace of mind:
- production of melatonin, which is responsible for youth, beauty and energy, as well as helping to get rid of depression;
- when you wake up, you will want not to sleep for another five minutes, but to jump up and go for a run or actively move to the accompaniment of incendiary music;
- you will be cheerful and active all day;
- the risk of cardiovascular diseases, obesity, disruption of the immune and nervous systems will decrease, sugar levels, blood pressure and metabolism will improve.
Let’s trust the reviews of those who are already “hooked” on the new sleep schedule. They unanimously claim that they now accomplish much more. And this applies not only to the must do list. Now these people have time to notice the simple joys that constantly surround us and delight our eyes, ears, and smell.
Additional terms
It is important to observe several conditions: dinner should be light and a couple of hours before bedtime. About an hour before, you can drink hot milk with honey or soothing tea. Ventilate the bedroom in half an hour.
After dinner, do not overload your brain.
Do whatever helps restore your peace of mind. You can write a diary, listen to soothing music, have a calm conversation, read a paper book or draw.
Change your worldview
Staying calm in a stressful situation is not an easy task. And it starts with a change in worldview. Without this stage, it is impossible to calm down, get rid of stress, or make time for yoga every day. The main problem is the fear of being left without money or other material resources that have become a measure of value.
But when a person realizes that everything material is temporary, and in the next reincarnations he will only carry the consequences of his positive or negative actions, life priorities change.
There is time for spiritual practices, good deeds, good sleep and taking care of your health.
Shared yoga practice
Morning washing of the human brain
Diary
Even if you are a happy owner of the habit of writing a diary, this exercise will not be superfluous. Keep a notepad and pen near your bed.
Start writing as soon as you wake up.
Just whatever is running through your head. Let it be incoherent, stupid, about nothing - turn off your inner Perfectionist and give free rein to your hand.
You have to write a lot - three pages of handwritten text.
Do not reduce the volume, especially under the pretext that you do not know how to write or have nothing to write about. Try not to re-read it earlier than in a month.
What to write about?
This could be a description of a dream, thoughts about something, memories, unexpected ideas, anxiety and laundry forgotten in the washing machine, questions... Or a text about how you don’t know what to write about and therefore describe a cheeky pigeon cooing on the windowsill and getting in the way sleep.
Having cleaned your brains with such a brush, in just a few days (provided you do it regularly), you will feel yourself beginning to gain peace of mind and achieve peace of mind.
Because over time, you will stop wasting a lot of energy on thoughts that are inspired by society, cause a bad mood and prevent you from being free.
Large companies and meditation
For several years now, many large companies have considered it the norm to give employees time for self-development and meditation. Managers agree that this tool helps restore subordinates' peace of mind, especially after stress.
Results
So, such morning mental hygiene in the form of a few scribbled pieces of paper is a completely worthy replacement for meditation. In order to improve your mental balance, create a playlist that can charge your internal battery.
Eliminate sad songs that make you want to cry, be sad, repeat unpleasant experiences in your thoughts, and where you suffer over unattained desires.
They obviously won’t help you; you want to be in a good mood and feel simple human gratitude that you live on this earth and are ready for changes for the better.
By the way, listen, maybe you’ll like it too?
The main recipe for human peace of mind
The main recipe for peace of mind is the ability to live in the present moment.
Use this method and conduct a small experiment: pick up, say, a pencil and try to think only about it for at least a minute. It would seem that the task is easy. But after the first attempt, it will become clear that it is quite difficult to keep thoughts around one object in consciousness.
When you succeed in this action, think about it - were you really so worried at that time by feelings of fear that the loan payments were coming soon, the child glued the teacher to the chair, the boss yelled again, and the husband always forgets to buy batteries for the remote control?
As long as your personal attention is focused on the present, and not on the past, and not even on the future, nothing can bother you. We are not always able to change our life situation, but we can maintain peace of mind and peace by changing our attitude towards it.
Internal criterion of wealth
This way, the very “I” will gradually appear on which you can rely - an internal core, a filter of perception, thanks to which it will become much easier to distinguish the true from the false. This is a very precise criterion aimed at understanding - everything that makes me strong, energetic and young is for my good, while everything that takes away the feeling of flight and joy is harmful.
In this case, finding joy in life becomes possible thanks to liberation from endless doubts and anxieties regarding numerous “shoulds and don’ts,” “goes and don’ts,” “does and don’ts,” etc.
Through awareness of one’s own “I” and its needs, one comes to know exactly what is needed at each moment of time, and accordingly, as much attention, energy and effort is given to it as required - no more and no less.
For example, if a person ate a lot because food “closed” his inner emptiness, replaced his missing emotions, then finding his own “I”, he begins to perceive food adequately, paying tribute to the taste and benefits, but remembering that initially food is, First of all, the energy resource necessary to maintain life.
Now that the source of joy is within oneself, one can finally just eat—without gasping for “goodies” or without the constant fear of extra calories. And the task of “how to enjoy life and not depend on food” ceases to seem unsolvable.
This position is relevant in relation to everything that comes into our lives, since the true “I” becomes an accurate criterion that does not need excesses. It is impossible to train such a sense of proportion without the presence of internal completeness, because if “I” does not exist for myself, I will always look for someone who will confirm my existence, and almost any person is suitable for this role (as well as food, property, position), the main thing is to have time to “grab” it, and therefore figure out what’s what and how much you need it.
Finding Joy in Life by Shifting from an Either/Or to a Both/And Strategy
Within such a framework, a person can exist all his life without ever finding the golden mean of applying his own strength. This is not surprising, because the truth, as usual, lies beyond the extremes.
Instead of choosing “either/or”, a decision in the context of “both/and” is possible. That is: both accept yourself and be happy with everything that you have now (and if you dig deep, each of us will find a lot of reasons for joy), but also continue to want more (but not too much - the difference between these two concepts is significant), committing steps in his direction.
That is, to combine contentment in the present and plans for the future, giving both a plus sign. With this attitude towards yourself and life, the chance of being happy in the present and setting clear, measurable and achievable goals for the future is much higher.
Finding joy in life becomes possible when a person learns not to painfully choose between values that are equivalent to himself, but looks for a way to get both.
