The forgotten act of self-care of immobilization

Dear reader,

When was the last time you stopped and you didn’t do anything?

From my experience, the ability to live a happier, more activated life requires moments of immobility. From the moment you wake up to the time you go to bed, your attention is drawn from a pillar to the place.

Now more than ever, someone or something needs your eyes. Wants to feed your emotional battery.

We use so many of our emotional batteries in other things, other people, that there is nothing for us.

We are so overwhelmed by the stimulants that we have forgotten how important it is to be still.

And I’m not talking about lazy. I am talking about an act of self-care that most people do not think, but from my experience, is the most important. And it does not require cash for foot baths, fancy candles or massage.

Self-care just stops

I am great in self-improvement, but not in the same way as most people.

I believe that the most important thing you can do for your mental well -being allows yourself to think time. And this is an important point. From my experience, you have to Give yourself permission To stop and have moments where you don’t have to be someone in someone or go and do something.

You have to be intentional.

You will always have a family, work or children who need your attention. And that’s okay.

But even just 5 or 10 minutes in your day to be still miracles for your long -term prosperity.

This is for me, someone who thinks of a million mph.

Our days are full of tasks that need to be done and some that do not. It is easy to fill our time so that we do not get bored.

But We have forgotten how to be okay with getting bored.

I used to hate boredom. He used to shake me. These days, I appreciate that I’m bored. Bored is a time when you can really think. I no longer think of getting bored as “bad”.

It’s a time when it’s just you to do anything to do, a perfect time to be careful and to be stationary. It’s a time when you can recharge your emotional battery.

Avaccosis requires boundaries

So how do you find time to be still in today’s world?

Boundaries.

I was trying to be everything for everyone. I was a people happy for as much as I can remember. I never wanted to let people down. I always thought about how other people felt and not how I felt.

But trying to be that the person leaves little in the tank for you.

And so it became clear that I would have to set some limits in my life, if I were to get out of the emotional exhaustion of the effort to always please.

It didn’t mean to block people out of my life completely. It just meant to say “no” more often on things I didn’t really want to do because I knew I needed time for myself. I stopped doing things that thanked other people but did not do my Feel well.

• I stopped drinking so much
• I stopped going to people’s houses full of negative energy
• I stopped offering to help every opportunity I have

My limits gave me a few pockets to think again. And with this stillness, mental clarity began to return to me. My emotional battery began to recharge a little more than usual.

I still go out and see friends from time to time, but only when it makes sense because I learned that I need time to be motionless and concentrate.

Exercise is immovable

Practical calm more often in your life by changing the way you use the small pockets of time in your day.

These are the little moments that you could easily do something without meaning to fill the time.

For example;

• Get your lunch out and eat it yourself without distractions or chatting for decompression at noon
• Use the first 10 minutes after waking up to sit with a drink without the TV
• Run yourself bath once you get out of work and leave your phone in the other room for 15 minutes
• Go and sit in a quiet coffee or somewhere in nature on Saturday morning for about half an hour.

These little moments look trivial, but you can find a great sense of liberation and clarity in them between your busy week.

While you are still ongoing, allow your thoughts to come freely to you. Don’t judge them. Just be with them, whatever it is.

Notice whatever comes to you, You are safe. Just find a mere gratitude in the pause.

We have forgotten that it is ok not to fight around the clock. We don’t have to fill every hour of the day. If we give ourselves the permission to have moments of immobility, we can use our emotional batteries for ourselves and find more clarity, more mental energy and less intensity in our body.

Keep it simple.

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