Mindfulness at work
Many of us have two halves to our lives – work and home. In your home life you can easily choose to experience more mindfulness and being present in your life. We can also practice meditation, yoga, reiki which are all good for your body and soul. The question is;
“How can you bring mindfulness into your hectic business day where your schedule is often not your own?”
This series of articles aims to give you some ideas, hints and tips to be used in your work life. The first is;
Learning resilience
A resilient person is someone who can manage uncertainty and recover from adversity well.
Learning to become a resilient person helps to develop your inner strength. During your life, challenges and crises will inevitably hit you. We cannot predict when they will come. Challenges are opportunities to learn life lessons. Having some resilience through an inner strength helps you to navigate your challenges and to learn from them.
The world is an increasingly uncertain place. By developing resilience you will have the emotional strength to navigate your way through whatever arrives for you. You may also have the resilience to help others through their challenges too.
Our Changing World: Contribute to it being a calmner place
2017 has brought in lots of change for all of us. On the world stage political leaders are changing, Brexit is being progressed, even Mother Earth is feeling change. There is much debate on whether there is climate change in process but it is a fact that glaciers and the artic ice is melting. So something is changing.
Relief of finding calmness
Sometimes life’s challenges feel overwhelming. Challenges are opportunities to learn life lessons. They are not meant to be so hard that they break you, but they are meant to be ‘challenging’. This is sometimes needed to get you to listen.
When you feel overwhelmed; step back, take a few deep breadths and re-assess the situation you find yourself in. Listening to the calm, rationale voice within you. It can be enlightening. You will be surprised at how objective and fair that voice is. However it can take some diligence to hear the voice over your anger, frustration or fear.
Gyhldeptis brings calmness
Gyhldeptis – Native American Goddess of the forest. Honoured by the Haida and Tlingit tribes in Alaska and Canada. Known as the coastal forest Goddess with long hair. Her name means “Lady Hanging Hair” representing the long moss hanging from the cedar trees. Protector of the forest and also seen as the spirit of the trees.
Gyhldeptis helps in times of stress and chaos. She assists in calming us and brings us back to our centre. Gyhldeptis reminds us of the calm flowing river. She teaches us to stay calm and focused, to step back and re-evaluate our situation. Call on Gyhldeptis when you feel overwhelmed and stressed. Walking in the woods or near to nature helps with re-connecting to nature spirits.