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    17Aug, 2022
    Reducing Stress & Staying Balanced – “At Ease”

    When called to “ATTENTION”, we tensed up; standing straight with chest puffed out and quietly awaiting the call of “AT EASE”. The moment we hear the call of “AT EASE”, we let go and felt relieved, more relaxed and calm. 

    The state of ease is a highly regenerative state that helps us flow more easily through challenges and builds our resilience capacity. Inner ease is not merely a state of relaxation. It is characterized by a balance between the mind and emotions which allows us to access a sense of inner stillness while on the move. 

    It is beneficial to start your day by being at ease as this reduces mental and emotional static which often clouds clear thinking and our reasoning capacity.  Why not develop your ability to be at ease (at will) where you can bring the essence of calmness and stillness into your day-to-day interactions?

    Breathing the feeling of ease supports the cooperative agreement between our heart, mind and emotions when we are making decisions, communicating, and planning. Our minds and emotions often fight each other for quick decisions. In the state of adrenalin rush, this confusion blocks our sensitivity to our heart’s intuitive choices for the highest outcomes.

    Learning to move in a state of inner ease gives us more pause to register our intuitive guidance in all of our interactions. The pause allows us to make conscious choices rather than mechanical reactions.

    Exercise: Inner-Ease (TM) Technique

    1. Focus your attention in the area of the heart. Imagine your breath is flowing in and out of your heart or chest area, breathing a little slower and deeper than usual.
      (Suggestion: Inhale 5 seconds, exhale 5 seconds (or whatever rhythm is comfortable for you))
    2. With each breath, draw in the feeling of inner ease to balance your mental and emotional energy.
    3. Set a meaningful intent to anchor the feeling of inner ease as you engage in your projects, challenges or daily interactions. 

    View inner ease as a state of “active calm” in which our mental and emotional energy is composed, yet ready for swift intelligent action if needed. Inner ease is not necessarily about moving slowly physically, unless some situations call for it – it’s about moving smartly. This is a powerful tool for preventing and neutralizing stress or sorting out solutions and directions.

    11Aug, 2022
    Reducing Stress & Staying Balanced – Inner Dignity

    Dignity is one of the most important things to the human spirit. It means being valued and respected for what you are, what you believe in, and how you live your life. Treating other people with dignity means treating them the way we’d like to be treated ourselves. 

    The strength of our dignity is determined by the fluctuations of our energies such as resilience, determination, courage and care. Some people seem to have a knack for maintaining an even temperament. Their dignity and composure never seems to waver. For the majority of people, the state of their inner dignity is one of ebb and flow. It changes daily for some, seasonally for others. Somewhere in between is where most of us fit.

    Situations such as disappointment, illness or general challenges will occur in our lives from time to time. it can leave us out of sorts, and depressed, and if we’re not careful, our inner dignity and esteem can plummet as well.

    “When you strive to become your true self by following your heart,
    you nurture and increase the available power of your inner dignity.”
    —Doc Childre

    As Inner Dignity is one of the primary motivators for self-empowered actions, it is crucial for us to find a reliable path to an optimal state of inner dignity. Dignity lifts us to realms of new possibilities where things begin to transform, creating more stability in our lives. Those undesirable patterns will begin to disappear and new patterns emerge as a new way of life. 

    We can achieve Inner Dignity with our hearts and trained breathing techniques. This takes a little practice, and here is a technique to help you along.

    Technique: Increasing your Inner Dignity 

    1. Focus your attention in the area of the heart. Imagine your breath is flowing in and out of your heart or chest area with a 5-secs in and 5-secs out-breath. If you find this uncomfortable, try breathing a little faster or slower but keeping it at an easy rhythm that’s comfortable.
    2. As you breathe, imagine you are increasing your inner dignity, inner strength and poise. This increases your power to maintain your higher principles through life’s interactions.
    3. When you practice breathing a sense of inner strength and inner poise, do so for at least a couple of minutes, with feeling. Our dignity is the foundational baseline of good character. It’s a source of extra strength, especially at times when we are low on the initiative.

    Explore how increasing your inner dignity can encourage you to follow through on choices that are best for you, even though they are not always the most appealing. Dignity provides a strength that keeps us aligned with our higher principles. This can only strengthen with practice and use.

    3Aug, 2022
    Reducing Stress & Staying Balanced – Being Compassionate

    Let us focus on the topic of Being Compassionate“. Being Compassionate or Compassionate latitude is an attitude of compassionate understanding that every one of us, is always doing our best against the stress overload, anxiety and the clouded thinking so many of us are experiencing.

    Practising compassionate latitude and being compassionate with each other – families, friends, colleagues, etc. – will help reduce and prevent the stress build-up from our anger, judgements, and resentments. This increases our tolerance, patience, and deeper understanding of each other’s situations.

    Being mindful and respectful that all of us can come up short at times in our choices and that we can make mistakes in our words or actions, will help us maintain our balance, resilience and flow during those pressing times of change and unpredictability. By skipping the drama and forgiving each other, we can move on quicker from those stressful moments.

    As we practise compassion, care, and kindness with each other, this opens our heart to increased personal and collective intuitive guidance for the best choices and direction through whatever life brings us. Remember to be kinder and more compassionate with yourself too, because the lack of this can quickly stack your stress deficit and compromise your personal well-being.

    As this takes a little practice, here is some guidance on becoming more compassionate

    Exercise: Being Compassionate / Compassionate Latitude

    1. Start with quiet breathing while radiating feelings of gratitude. This helps to shift our energy from the mind to our heart.
    2. Next, ponder for a while where you could give others more compassionate latitude at home, at work, watching the news, sorting out miscommunications, etc.
    3. Now visualise yourself replacing judgements, angered responses, lack of tolerance, and separation with compassionate latitude such as care, kindness, acceptance, cooperation, and tolerance, for others and yourself. Use the Anchoring Technique from Week 1 to anchor in this valuable habit by practising it over several days in a row.
    4. Now, radiate compassion and latitude to people with different biases whose polarising views are creating separation, stress and chaos. The giving of unconditional love and compassion increases our well-being and resilience.

    The need for love and compassion has been philosophized for aeons, and now is the time for us to bring it to the street and see the positive impact it can have on everyone around us.