Recharge Your Mind
Do you feel that your life is a constant treadmill? Is your mind and life filled with worry and stress? Are you overwhelmed because there is always
something happening that robs your focus, interrupts your plans and steals your
peace and energy? Sometimes, don’t you want it all to stop?
Growing up in the 60s, I always had time to complete
household tasks, like cutting grass, over a weekend ... but also I had plenty
of time to wash and wax my car as well as relax and have fun. No more. Now with
everything that seems to be required by family, community, job and society and with
the advances of technology, I feel drained with never enough time. In my mind,
all I hear is “You are a failure. You didn’t finish.”
This mantra becomes endless and overwhelming. Where does the
time go? Why don't I have time for me? Finding time is like attempting to find
a needle in a hay stack. Boy ... that saying dates me.
Seriously, acquiring a skill or method to recharge your
brain is necessary to mental, emotional and physical health. Everyone knows
that recharging your mind is essential to increasing creative activity, mental
focus and spiritual enhancement.
Sometimes unknowingly, you want what you don’t know you need.
For the most part, you are unaware of building stress due to hectic pace of
your life. Stress and mental chatter slowly increase, and then it hits. You do
not recognize it and do not know how to get rid of the icky feeling. Please understand
that stress makes you react irrationally and you become tense, constricted or
revved up. In a revved up state, you may eat too much, forget appointments,
drive erratically or get angry with others. Many turn to food, drugs or other non-self-serving
activities in an attempt to counteract the mental drain, emotional upheaval and
confusion.
You are left with "What do I do?" and "Where
do I go?"
Three Factors in Gaining Inner Peace
Factor One - Commitment
First of all, you have to be willing to make a commitment to
yourself by affirming out loud “I am worth time every day for me.” This verbal
declaration is a commitment ... a promise to yourself. If you make a promise to
yourself, it is more likely that you will follow through. A self-promise is the
hardest promise to break. When you break a self-promise, you know you are
breaking it.
Factor Two -
Consistency
Secondly, you have to create a daily schedule and mark a
specific periods for Me Time in that
schedule. Consistency is the key. For Me
Time to successfully recharge, you should be certain to honor the
commitment every day for the first 90 days. Once the first 90 are completed,
you can move into a maintenance level of 4 to 5 days a week. Any less, and you
will not get the results you are looking for.
Factor Three -
Discipline
The last factor is willingness to form a discipline.
Discipline is the act of forming a pattern over time with practice that
produces mental improvement, comfort and overall well-being. With practice, you
can train your mind to respond on what matters in the moment.
Me Time
I know that you can relate to recharging you batteries on
your phone, your tablet, or laptop, etc. in order for it to function. Also, to
improve the performance of your devices, you have to periodically turn your
devices off completely for a while. The same is true for your mind. You cannot
run on maximum power 24/7 and expect to function at peak performance. The wear and tear on your mind is enormous.
Recharging is vital to overall well-being, and with recharging your batteries,
you will be more energized, focused and tranquil.
If you have a lot of chatter in your mind or you experience
thought looping, a period of any kind of quiet time will help you attain some
level of inner peace and comfort.
If you desire a greater degree of inner peace, then try a
little Me Time. Me Time is a mindful method that can
rejuvenate your mind. Me Time or communing with yourself is a free style form of
meditation and a great method of recharging your brain. To recharge your batteries,
you have to achieve mental quiet and reduce the vibration activity in your
mind. Your question is probably “how do
you do that?”
How to Recharge
I would like to share with you the process of Me Time to
recharge mind. Dedicate 5 to 10 minutes a day to Me Time. Find a comfortable
place, shut off all devices, sit back, close your eyes and with your
imagination place a dot on the inside of your forehead. Focus intensely on that
dot. As you breathe in, make the dot increase in brightness. Then as you
breathe out, let it decrease in brightness. Within 5 to 10 minutes, your mind
will be recharged. You will be surprised what a mere 5 to 10 minutes of
quieting the mind can do to turn things around for you and improve your day.
4 Tips on Recharging Your Mind
Breathing
Find a quiet place ... close your eyes and just focus on
your breathing. Focus on breathing in and then out. Breathing can be done
either completely unconsciously or completely consciously. Breathing engages two
distinct sets of muscles and nerves, depending on whether you use involuntary
nerves and muscles or the voluntary. With focused breathing for 5 to 10 minutes
a day, you will find that the breath has the unique characteristic of not only
recharging your mind but also your body.
Go Outside
Make a point of going outside and enjoy nature. Talk a walk,
go to a park or go to the beach. Observing nature can recharge you spiritual
batteries. Just sitting and observing your natural environment brings stillness
and nurtures you. So go outside for a little while and attune to the rhythm and
vibration of the great outdoors.
The Power of Laughing and Smiling
Laughing and smiling, will also recharge your batteries. A
full-out belly laugh or even a simple smile can make such a difference in not
just you, but it can also lighten up your environment. Both change the chemical
level in your mind and makes you feel better overall. They reduce stress and prevent
negativity from entering your consciousness.
After Thoughts
I am positive one of these methods in this article will help
you recharge your mind, settle your emotions, comfort your body and brighten
your spirit.
Take action…
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