Mind Talks | Peace of Mind

An important stress management teaching is the idea that if you calm your mind your body will also be calmer and that if you relax your body your mind will be more peaceful. The concept is referred to as calm mind calm body and calm body calm mind. If you calm your mind your body will be more relaxed and stress free and that will improve your health and mood. If you relax your body you’ll be calmer. So you should try some calming exercises or techniques for stress management. Calming exercises could include affirmations, breathing exercises, meditation, Pilates, stretching, walking and yoga.

A helpful calming stress management technique that could help you to calm quickly is mindfulness meditation. In mindfulness meditation you try to pay attention to how you feel, what’s happening and any sensations you have including sounds. You try to live in the present moment (which is sometimes called be here now) and feel what is happening in the time period. Try to be very attentive, alert and conscious of what is happening in the present moment. Pay attention to what you’re doing and how it feels. This technique should help you to be more centered and peaceful.

From time to time throughout the day pause and do some kind of calming or mindfulness exercise. You can try the calming techniques in this article or make up your own. You could stretch and look around the room. You could massage your hands or neck and shoulders. You could count to ten, do things more slowly or carefully or try to be more calm and peaceful.

One simple way to do this is to breathe deeply. Slow breathing can help you relax. Exhaling more slowly than you usually do can also help to [...]