Feeling ok?

Post lockdown most of us seem to have picked up pace, in that we are moving around more…especially outside, we are socialising more…in person, we are travelling more…further afield, we are experiencing a flurry of activity, which includes sound, smell, sight, touch and tastes. And it’s wonderful most of the time but it can also be stress inducing.

Given the on again, off again, on again, lockdown experience we have had extreme sensory change. This can increase our stress given our sensitivity to change, our ability to adapt and our preferred way of being.

Are we hyper aroused, hypo aroused or fluctuating between one to the other? Are we conscious that we can choose to regulate the way we feel and to adopt strategies to help us manage our stress, anxiety and/or depressive moods.

We all fluctuate but when those difficult feelings dictate how we think, feel and behave then it is helpful if not necessary to apply strategies. When we consciously take responsibility to initiate change we are choosing to manage the way we think, feel and behave and not make excuses, blame others or fane ignorance.

When not feeling ok, it is useful to stop and notice what negative, potentially demeaning thought is front of mind. And to notice what it feels like when thinking like that, especially in our bodies, as we all have a physiological response to emotions/stress. And to notice how we behave in response to these thoughts and the way we are feeling.

We all need to slow down to notice if we are feeling ok?

We need to slow down and take some time to understand this and to make sense of it.

We need to slow down, take time and deicide what we can do to take responsibility in order to feel ok.

For this is how we start to change our thinking patterns, to feel better and to behave in a way that we have chosen and that empowers us.

Not feeling ok is a clue the we might need to de-stress. The following is an article with 20 scientifically backed ways to de-stress right now :) There are many more but it’s up to us to choose the things that we find most helpful. Best wishes in your search for more calm.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/stress-relief-that-works_n_3842511

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