Here is an easy way to bring quiet and calm into your daily routine.
Slow down.
Just stop rushing.
Slow down and breathe.
It is easy to get wrapped up in the bustle of life, especially if you live and work in a city. You take on the stresses and urgency of others and you become stressed and under the gun, too. Your breathing becomes rushed and shallow. Your mood becomes anxious and nervous. And your relationships with others may become curt and rude, even if that is far from the way that you want to relate to others.
It happens when we are not mindful in our living. It happens when we surrender to the rushed, negative atmosphere that surrounds us.
There is another way to approach it. Just slow down and breathe.
Keep mindful of your breath over the course of the day and you will be mindful of other things, too. Like how nervous you are. And how unnecessary that nervousness it.
I still recommend taking a few minutes to sit and do nothing but a yoga breath exercise. But here I am suggesting something else. I am proposing that you try to remain mindful of your breath all day, as you go about your daily routine.
Try it for a day. Have a deadline? Slow down and breathe. Unexpected traffic making you late for an appointment? Slow down and breathe. Being snapped at by a co-worker? Slow down and breathe. You may still have the deadline, the traffic, the stressed-out co-worker. But you do not have to take the stress on yourself.
And something else may happen. Do you work faster and more accurately when you take your time and breathe, instead of getting tense and out of sorts? Does your calm change the interaction between yourself and your co-worker? Try it and see.
You don t have to let the stress of daily life get the upper hand. Take it slowly. And breathe.
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