In the last blog, the focus was on spiritual strategies to help you feel less anxious and afraid. Today, we’re exploring ways to harness the power of your mind to help control your thoughts so they don’t control you.
Ready?
1. Intention
One of the ideas we discussed in the last blog was: How you start your day is how you live your day. Remember?
Intention ties into this beautifully.
Imagine this: as soon as you awaken in the morning, you set a conscious intention for how you want your day to be, and how you want to experience it.
Easy, generous, joyful, peaceful, gentle, loving. compassionate…
We can use this tool for any situation we are facing as well.
Perhaps you have an upcoming meeting that’s causing anxiety. How would you like it to go? Stop and really set an intention about it, and about how you’re going to show up.
2. Affirmation
Using affirmations is another way to solidify your intention.
It’s also something you can use throughout the day if/when you feel like you’ve fallen into fear or anxiety. It can return you to a sense of balance, equilibrium and groundedness.
Utilizing affirmation can help calm your nervous system as well as re-set your mind.
Ones that can be helpful with fear and uncertainty include:
I am safe.
Life loves me.
Life brings me only good.
Out of this situation only good will come.
3. Input
What are you reading, watching and listening to? In other words, what information is going into your mind?
Are these sources serving and supporting you? Or are they creating even more anxiety and fear?
Of course, it’s important to be informed, but not at the detriment of your mental health. Think about it this way, you aren’t helping anyone if you’re in a constant state of anxiety and fear.
4. What Are You Feeling?
It can be super easy to emotionally detach or intellectualize what you’re experiencing.
Especially when the sensation is uncomfortable like – dread, rejection, shame, anger, disgust. Typically, the first reaction is to ignore it or push it away.
What would happen if instead of ignoring or pushing away that feeling, you allowed yourself to identify it and be with it?
The idea here is to cultivate a relationship with your feelings, to hone in on them – the ones you like experiencing as well as the ones you don’t.
When we do this, they negative ones are less likely to hijack our entire system, too.
Alright, so here are 4 more practices to add to your self help toolbox to support you in managing uncertainty, anxiety and fear.
Let me know how it’s going!
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