“Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.” Deepak Chopra
When I first started my Instagram page, I wrote a post titled "Finding Your Therapy". It wasn't in blog form and it certainly wasn't very detailed but the underlying message was the same. After coming across this quote earlier in the week I decided to revisit that piece of writing and try to improve upon it a bit as I believe it to be an important area to investigate if you are looking to improve your self-awareness as I have been and it is very much still a work in progress.
Meditation is a fantastic way of taking more control of your mind so it can become more focused and peaceful (as my fellow blogger and energy epic @rebeccaresultions will tell you in her blog) but I have always struggled to implement it. Even when Headspace has only ever asked for 5 minutes of my day, I have still struggled to commit to it. This frustrates me as I have tried it and I have noticed its benefit.
So maybe meditation isn’t my daily me time, my form of therapy. It may be for you, it may be like me you want to implement it but never do or maybe you just think it’s a lot of rubbish and you want no part of it. Fair enough. I’m not here to convince you otherwise. But I would like to ask you, what is your alternative?
You may respond with a straight no but I would implore you to think about your ideal daily routine. Not the things you may have to do every day such as work or support a family or just the standard aspects of a daily routine you must do. But when all that does get a bit much, what do you find yourself longing to do?
Is it a few holes on the golf course, training, reading, an audiobook, writing, meditation, cleaning, cooking, baking, drawing, colouring, puzzles, napping, ironing, dancing, showering, singing (carpool karaoke anyone?)? Admittedly those last two are one and the same for me.
My point is we may somewhat be aware that we enjoy these things, find them therapeutic, or zone out whilst doing them, but are we fully aware of their true benefit and therefore do we prioritise them enough?
Some of them aren't even things we need much time to do. 10 minutes of colouring in maybe the sort of thing that when you identify who positive an impact it has on you, it genuinely gets you through that hectic day, work being full tilt and/or family issues and responsibilities to contend with. The list is endless.
So perhaps instead of subconsciously doing these things that are your "therapy". Find out what really gets you through and make the time to do it.
Find Your therapy.
Thanks for reading.
Lee
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