Stress and Emotional Overwhelm
It can happen at work or home. Small tasks that caused you no problem in the past become chores you can’t find the time to do. Or maybe you do them with a growing sense of resentment. If left unchecked, this type of fatigue robs you of creativity, shortens your temper and causes you to doubt all your decisions and becomes exhausting. Worst of all, it railroads you into repeating past mistakes.
It might look as if there’s no way out, but you can transform this stress and fatigue into a calm clarity that always sees a way through. Where you say and do things that build trust and harmony in relationships, even in emotionally charged situations.
Imagine making all your decisions from a space of relaxed confidence rather than cause of stress and doubt. Where your past mistakes were helpful reminders for next time, rather than rabbit-holes of regret and rumination?
With the right strategies, you can gain the upper hand within a few short weeks. But it’s hard to do it on your own. You need an approach that is achievable and makes sense to you in order to make the changes that will bring your mind and life back under your control.
You may have tried a psychologist, meditation course or both and not got the results you were hoping for. I see this a lot and it’s a shame, because the combined power of modern scientific knowledge and ancient wisdom culture can be an incredible force for peoples’ wellbeing. All you need is someone who understands how to use them together and can make it easy to understand and simple to put into practice.
Meditation and Mindfulness Training
Meditation isn’t magic. Improving your life by meditating shouldn’t be any more mysterious than improving your fitness by exercising. And a lot less sweaty.
Meditation is about making and breaking habits. Cultivating positive, constructive ones and eliminating ones that cause trouble. If you’ve learned meditation as a mere coping strategy or temporary stress reduction, you’ve been taught wrong. Meditation should be a cause for a stable sense of wellbeing that sees you engaging constructively and fearlessly with the world. Whether you’re meditating in a mountain cave or a Manhattan condo you’re laying the foundations of your own happiness.
But meditation alone is not enough.
Wellbeing Strategies
To get real bang for your buck, you need to have strategies to bring the benefits of meditation off the cushion into the rest of your daily life. Otherwise, what’s the point? This is where understanding modern psychology can help.
When you understand how your emotions work and how they can cause us difficulties, you are less likely to be hijacked by them. With the calm clarity developed through meditation, you have the combined power of modern science and ancient wisdom to put you back in the driver’s seat of your life and keep emotional overwhelm in the rear-view mirror.
Of course, it helps to have an outside observer guide you through this process. It’s even better if that person understands both modern scientific and ancient contemplative approaches to mental health and wellbeing. To know where these approaches overlap and how to use them means you get results faster. Make no mistake, your wellbeing is not a mystery and you can have it under your control.