We go through every day with the same routine. Wake up, go to work, come home, sleep and do it all again tomorrow. Okay so the events during the day will differ from day to day but things remain the same.
You might yourself wishing your life away. “I wish I was able to do this and that. I wish I could go there.” You’re inadvertently wishing things would be different. We are allowed to dream, perfectly natural to do so.
But then, out of the blue a change has made itself known to you. This can be sudden or something that you know is coming but the plans to put on place are abruptly moved sooner.
Sometimes this can be a temporary inconvenience, but can also be life changing. How do you handle these kind changes?
I know routine is what it is with no grey areas. Handling any change is very challenging for the individual and the people around them. I was like this when I was younger.
Growing older, everything changes. Your body, school, friends, jobs and work colleagues to name a few. Family setting can change too.
When faced with any change, it will take your pathway of life on a bit of a detour. Accepting is difficult, but nothing can be done but to accept it. Emotions are high and sensitive and everything is overwhelming.
The most powerful tool we all have is the breath. Observe it for a moment. Is your breath deep and long or short and shallow? Cast your mind back to a scary or thrilling movie. If someone if scared, their breathing is fast, short and shallow. Adrenaline and cortisol is released to make the body and breathing work faster.
When change is forced upon, I go to my breath. As humans we are accustomed to be scared and stressed from time to time. How we can gain clarity of what to next, the breath is the guide.
If there is madness surrounding you, find a place of comfort and quiet. This can be in a room, the car, a library, a church, anywhere! Just sit there and listen to your breath. Make any adjustments to feel comfortable and breathe, no effort needed, just doing what comes naturally to us all. Then close your eyes and take a few deep and slow breaths. Slowly inhale and slowly exhale. Without any external interruptions, sense how everything else is slower. The madness of the mind is calmer, the parasympathetic nervous system slows the heart rate and the stress hormones (adrenaline and cortisol) are no longer flooding the body.
All this was done by one tool we use 21,000 times a day, the breath.
