The Path to Wellness

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Being mindful of your emotions is a great way to learn about yourself and find your center.

Shift your attention from your breath and ask yourself:
What am I feeling?
What emotions am I feeling, right here right now?

If you sat down for this exercise without any strong emotions, perhaps you're feeling contentment

Or perhaps you're curious, or maybe there's another emotion inside such as longing or yearning, or perhaps sadness or joy, worry, perhaps a sense of urgency.

Maybe loneliness. Or maybe you're bursting with pride or feeling lost or envy. Maybe you're having a lot of feelings.

Try to identify the strongest feeling that you're having and give it a name.

Emotions can be complicated and there may not be a name for exactly what you're feeling.

You may be anxious, or complacent, or feeling sharp, or flat, or electrified.

Try to name your feeling and then say it out loud.

Continue to breath slowly and steadily while you contemplate your feeling.

Feelings are temporary and cyclical.

You will not feel like this forever, and you will also feel like this again.

By examining your emotions as you feel them, you're creating a lexicon for understanding yourself how you interpret you own existence.

By taking this time to understand your emotions, you've engaged in a healthy practice that improves your mind, body, and life.

Congratulations on your good mood!

If you have the time, try to examine your feelings of happiness right now. What about right now is so good?

Can you find that same sense of happiness in other situations or instances or is it unique to what’s happening right now?

Understanding the source of our good mood is an important step in understanding how we interpret our own unique experiences.

Observation without Judgement

It's healthy to experience the full range of emotions throughout your life. No emotions are inherently bad. Rather, it's the meaning that we attach to them that defines our experience of them.

When you're experiencing a strong emotion, try to examine the emotion from the perspective of an outside observer. Emotions are information. They have a cause and an effect. They exist for a reason. They provide valuable insight into ourselves and our environment.

Exercise: Body Scan Meditation

Find a comfortable place. Settle your body into a relaxing position. You can lie down or sit back in a chair.

Try to slow your breathing. Inhale a long, slow breath. Hold it for a moment. And then release.

Now focus on your big toe. Where is it? How does it feel? Do you have any sensations or emotions attached to it? Take this moment to consider your toe and know that it is here, in this location, and now, at this very time.

Now move your attention up to your foot and repeat the same process. From your foot, move to your legs. Take a moment to continue to contemplate each part of your body from your toes all the way up to your head.

Life can get stressful. It's important to stop every now and then tp ground yourself and your experience.

You are Here.
Now.

Stress is a temporary emotion but an important one. It exists to help us understand ourselves and our environment. As your stress fades, try to observe it leaving and understand the role that it plays in your life.

Walk to Alleviate Stress Through Movement

Take a quick walk around a building, a neighborhood, or even through your home.

Try not to hold tightly onto any one thought or emotion. Rather, allow yourself to exist in the moment and participate with your surroundings.

Take this moment to ask yourself, "Why am I feeling angry?" You probably don't need very much time to think of the reason.

After you've identified the reason, ask yourself, "Why?"
Why did that make you so upset?

Then, again, challenge that answer: "Why?" What is it about the circumstance, or the people, or your environment, or yourself that made you so angry?

Emotions are information and it's important to study them in order to understand what they're telling us.

Walk to Alleviate Sadness Through Movement

Take a quick walk around a building, a neighborhood, or even through your home.

Try not to hold tightly onto any one thought or emotion. Rather, allow yourself to exist in the moment and participate with your surroundings.

Observation without Judgement

It's healthy to experience the full range of emotions throughout your life. No emotions are inherently bad. Rather, it's the meaning that we attach to them that defines our experience of them.

When you're experiencing a strong emotion, try to examine the emotion from the perspective of an outside observer. Emotions are information. They have a cause and an effect. They exist for a reason. They provide valuable insight into ourselves and our environment.

Exercise: Body Scan Meditation

Find a comfortable place. Settle your body into a relaxing position. You can lie down or sit back in a chair.

Try to slow your breathing. Inhale a long, slow breath. Hold it for a moment. And then release.

Now focus on your big toe. Where is it? How does it feel? Do you have any sensations or emotions attached to it? Take this moment to consider your toe and know that it is here, in this location, and now, at this very time.

Now move your attention up to your foot and repeat the same process. From your foot, move to your legs. Take a moment to continue to contemplate each part of your body from your toes all the way up to your head.

Life can get stressful. It's important to stop every now and then tp ground yourself and your experience.

You are Here.
Now.

Stress is a temporary emotion but an important one. It exists to help us understand ourselves and our environment. As your stress fades, try to observe it leaving and understand the role that it plays in your life.