Calming Activities in Everyday Life by Fatima Shahzad

In this week’s blog we will be considering and reflecting on the many different activities and ways that we found calm each week this month. We have looked over many ways that we find calm, whether that’s in our mind, body, activities or space.

As you reflect back on the past month and see which of the exercises that you engaged in, which ones have worked for you. How we can implement these exercises in our everyday lives? This is important so that you are actively achieving a sense of calm, not only when you need it but are always achieving a sense of calm and having that positive and peaceful mindset - which will only uplift you as a person and allow you to lead a more positive and affirming life.

Here at Space to Breathe we believe it’s important to input calming activities or exercises into your everyday life whether or not you feel stressed that day. By doing this, you will actively build a routine and provide yourself a consistency in your life that you will always have. Along with consistency, by having a set routine in your day, it will provide you more control in your life, over your days, allowing you to have a firm structure in your life which will help to boost your health and wellbeing.

As we all know, in life there are many ups and downs that we all face, instilling these calming activities in your everyday life will provide you a support system that you can fall back on automatically should you ever need to, helping you through your worries and lifting you back up to where you belong. Not only this, but it will allow you to manage your stress levels better which in turn will encourage you to take better care of yourself. Lastly, having these calming routines in your everyday life will allow you a feeling of accomplishment and lead you to be in tune with yourself, with your mind, body, activities and space.

Take a moment

I would like to encourage you to reflect and think back on this month’s well resources and how we managed to find calm through exploring our mind, body, activities and spaces by engaging in a whole host of different activities such as looking at different pictures to understand what brings us calm, stretching and releasing the tension in our body, exploring our five senses and understanding what makes a space calm. Once you have thought back through this month, I would like you to…

TRY THIS…

• I would encourage you to pick at least two of the activities from this month’s well resources to help you find calm and implement them into your daily routine

• I would especially like to encourage you to implement these into your morning routine, for example taking a break from social media as soon as you wake up or actively engaging in some meditation exercises etc.

Building these activities into your morning and developing that routine will provide you with a structure to your day, allowing you to feel in control of your day. This will provide you a positive mindset and a healthy start to your day leading you to be productive and achieving your goals while maintaining a sense of calm throughout.

Why not give this a try and see if it helps you?