Creating and Finding Calm Invigorates You
How can that be true?
If you live in the United States, you’re constantly bombarded by endless messages to keep pushing. Go faster. Do more. Be a force. Blaze a trail. Never stop. The key to being, having, and doing all you can be/do/have is to work really hard with high energy.
You can research this yourself, but I’ve read enough credible information to make this statement: That’s not the whole truth. Sure, many people succeed because of their drive. But drive is different for everyone. In many cases, that sort of unending, unceasing drive is naught but the road to burnout.
Over the years, as I’ve been walking my path and sharing my Pathwalking philosophy, I’m learning how powerful calm is. Why? Because calm is where you can assess yourself, both within and without. Calm is where you can rebalance, recenter, and take stock. And from calm, you can start or restart anything and become impassioned, invigorated, and empowered.
And how does that work?
The power of calm
If not now, when you can, pause. Stop what you’re doing. Set a timer for 2 minutes. Then, for 2 minutes, practice nothing but deep breathing. As you breathe in, focus on breathing in. When you breathe out, focus on breathing out. Take these breaths as deeply as you can, preferably from the diaphragm.
After the 2 minutes are up, consider yourself. How do you feel? If you gave this breathing exercise your full attention for those 2 minutes, I’m fairly certain you feel calm.
From a place of calm, your head, heart, and soul can get a sense of how the world immediately around you is. But more than that, you can get a sense of your inner being. Your thoughts, feelings, intentions, approach, and actions become clear when you’re calm.
From a place of calm, you can be better present and in the moment. When you’re present and wholly in the now, you can practice active conscious awareness – hence, mindfulness. Mindfulness can be employed to change any of these that do not suit you.
Physiologically, calm slows your heart, lets you better take stock of your senses and internal mindset/headspace/psyche self, and be more aware overall. After the 2-minute deep breathing exercise, you hopefully experienced this.
From that place of calm, you gain empowerment. Why? Because when you’re calm, you are working from a place of greater balance and understanding overall.
Nobody can go without a break
Everyone everywhere needs to rest from time to time. Part of the human condition is a need to reset. Your mind, body, and spirit cannot be on constantly.
Sleep is a period where your body can get this reset. But it’s not the only one. The deep breathing exercise I gave you is another. Meditation for any amount of time can help. Taking a walk in nature provides a break. Even watching something that makes you laugh offers up break time.
Finding and/or making calm for yourself is a quintessential necessity. That’s because constant activity will break you down. Any machine you’ve ever worked with needs to be reset once in a while in some way or other. This is also true of the human being.
You need to decrease the constant flow of stimulus and take a break from time to time. If you don’t, you will experience issues with your health, wellness, and wellbeing. There are 4 levels to that, all of which need to be balanced to be properly maintained. Hence, you need to be aware of your mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical self.
Finding and/or creating calm allows you insight into your state of being. On every level. From there, you can gauge how near or far you are from burnout, and take a break of some sort accordingly.
This, of course, is where calm can help. But once you achieve a state of calm, you open yourself to becoming invigorated.
How?
Creating and finding calm to invigorate
Calm is a place that lets you assess yourself. Not just internally, but externally. Why? Because to be truly calm means you’re in the now.
The only time that’s genuinely real, that can be truly assessed, is the now. The present. That’s because the past has come and gone and cannot be undone, redone, or done over. Likewise, the future is always in motion and subject to factors utterly outside your control. But the now is where you genuinely ARE.
When you’re present in the here and now and calm, you can see new paths. You can gain a sense of new potential and possibilities that have been otherwise eluding you. From that place of calm, you can find and/or create new directions, opportunities, and ways and means to do, have, or be who, what, where, how, and why you desire. That can invigorate you as it encourages you to make new choices and decisions to drive your life onwards.
To be fair, there are plenty of times this is difficult. We live in a high-stress, high-fear, negative world. But stepping outside of that and inside yourself lets you find and/or create calm. That opens the way to being more centered, balanced, and ultimately empowered.
Last, but not least, you’re worthy and deserving of not being under constant pressure or stress. It’s not selfish to find and/or create calm for your life. In fact, I’d argue that peace of mind is how you can help the world be better for not just yourself, but those around you.
How would you utilize more calm in your life?
This is the seventh-hundred-sixty-second (762) exploration of my Pathwalking philosophy. These weekly essays are my ideas for – and experiences with – applying mindfulness and positivity to walk along a chosen path of life to consciously create reality.
I share my philosophy because I desire to make a difference in the world and help as many people as I can to find their empowerment with conscious reality creation.
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