Tag: Calm

  • To radiate peace, calm your heart and mind

    To radiate peace, calm your heart and mind

    Have you ever noticed those people who walk into a room and just bring an aura of peace? The energy of the room shifts, they bring a calm that’s hard to put into words. We might call it a calming aura and for me, it’s a state I aspire to.

    When these people walk by or enter a room, you can see others visually relax, drop their shoulders and a peace filters in. Around these kind of people, you might feel reassured that everything will be okay and whatever you were worrying about will resolve and turn out for the best. You might even feel that peace when they’re not close by and you think of them.

    Your calm creates safety and you will radiate peace.

    When you bring calm, you’re not a distraction to others. You create focus, motivation and energy for people around you to push forward. You may even feel more comfortable and more like yourself when they are around. It’s a pleasure to be around them and they will help you to be your best.

    Calm in your heart (mind) will send the same energy out across the room and space.

    We wouldn’t be human if we were able to be like in this state all of the time. Even on the difficult days when your energy is disrupted or things don’t go your way – choose calm over anger.

    A few tips to help create your own calm and peace:

    • Rethink your work or rest space at home or work. Give yourself a corner for calm
    • Moving your body believe it or not, will get rid of that erratic energy and bring calm to your bodily rhythm and mind
    • Get creative. Pick up a peaceful hobby like painting or music
    • Music. Make yourself a playlist or five that reflect where your mood is at and encourages it to come down down down. I sometimes used the 8hr thunderstorm recording, it’s very peaceful
    • Head outside and get some D, the sunshine vitamin one lol
    • Get a good nights sleep
    • Try one of the many relaxation apps
    • Put the devices away, especially before bed. Try reading a book
    • Guppadea? Make yourself a nice hot cuppa and chill in your calm space
    • Scrapbook. I’ve been looking back through my sketchbook art recently and it’s been very calming. You could make your own book or draw
    • Giving of yourself. Working for others is good for the soul. Donate your time to helping a charity, volunteer organisation
    • Your daily switch off mechanism. Develop your own for after work. For me it’s swimming. I swim 30 minutes each day after work and I love it. Its calming, tiring, a switch off, a cool down an indicator that it’s my other time now

    When you feel calm, you’ll create peace within yourself and your surrounds and it’s a great thing for a healthy mind, body and spirit.

  • Cultivate silence to focus

    Cultivate silence to focus

    Our world gets interrupted on average every 10 minutes by notifications and whatever we’re focusing on is reprioritised. We pickup our phone about 40 – 150 times a day.

    That’s not focus. We’re being owned by a device.

    It’s said that any interruption of flow or your daily work, then requires 40 minutes to get back on task and concentrating.

    I know when I’m drawing that I try to put the phone completely away. A vibrating phone and notifications interrupt creativity.

    Here’s a few tips to reducing that loss of focus and flow:

    1. Cultivate silence. It might be uncomfortable at first, but silence will eventually bring calm and then peace to your mind
    2. Create a comfortable space
    3. Surround yourself with things that make bring you happiness
    4. Reduce clutter
    5. Clean off your workspace desk
    6. Ask people to give you quiet time
    7. Review your phone usage. Most phones have some kind of analytics that measure your app usage, times device picked up per day. Assess what’s taking your attention, and take it back
    8. Keep your devices on silent all day. Turn off all notification besides emergency contacts. Vibration, lights, everything off
    9. Leave your phone at home or in your bag for a full day. Try a half day at first if it’s too much

    One version of silence or peace, is when your thoughts stop racing, you’re mentally and physically calm and at ease, your heart isn’t racing, there’s no loud noises and your environment is relaxing. Your version may be different, you might need music to be at peace.

    But whatever your version is, it will hone your ability to focus. And vice versa, when your peace is continually broken, interrupted or taken by other distractions (whatever they might be), you’re ability to focus and get things done is reduced.

    Silence, or your version of calm and peace will exercise that muscle of switching into flow and focus. And with focus, you get things done.