The time of COVID-19 may have you feeling more confined, stressed or agitated. But there are simple tools, techniques and practices that can bring you a more mindful awareness of your situation. Today, Arjuna O’Neal joins me to chat about mindful awareness and how you can begin practicing it starting NOW!
Arjuna and I discuss:
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Mindful Quarantine Notes from Arjuna:
Where We Begin:
First let's acknowledge that there’s nowhere to get to. Everything we’ll be discussing is already inside you. However, as life continues to life, we become disconnected from this reality as a birthright. Today we will be primarily focused on awareness, tools, practices and activities that support and foster our reconnection to our heart-center.
Let’s start with taking a look at what’s right in front of us. It’s so easy to overlook some of the most valuable and accessible tools that are right in our reach, and even more so during these times. For example, breath, eye sight, hearing, movement, shelter(house), food, clean water, toilet paper and most importantly family and loved ones.
Key factors as an individual/ as household:
-Emotional & social intelligence - listening and speaking with emotional awareness
-Critical-thinking - including how all parties involved are impacted
-Resilience - reset and persevere
-Social responsibility - service to others e.g. add value, encouragement, affirmation
Now let’s look at some other obvious circumstances that can potentially distract us from being present or aware of the blessings and beauty around us.
Mindfulness/ Awareness:
-family dynamics
-habits and patterns
-attitude
-thinking patterns or mindset
-wants vs needs
-energy
-language
-music
-social media engagement vs consumption
-diet
-sleep
-movement/ exercise
-belief values
-triggers
-childhood trauma & wounds
-personal life story and experiences
-finances
-age
-gender
-leadership in the home
-spiritual beliefs and practices
-hormones
-size of home/ capacity
-neighborhood/ environment
-health conditions
-limited accessibility to particular things, e.g., bathroom or personal space
-fear, the unknown, relationship with the world in general
Tools/ practices and activities :
Books/ literature
Heart-centered activities, e.g, cooking, games, art, documentaries, laughing and storytelling
Family games that allow for each other to open up and share
Feeling helpless - be helpful/ be of service
Yoga/ meditation/ exercising
Affirmations
Journaling
Creative writing
Singing/ dancing
Mirror work
Sticky notes to remind me of my power at all times
Diffuser/ essential oils
Himalayan Salt Lap
Sound machine e.g. water , birds
Word search
Activities that don’t need devices
Allot times to process personal stuff, covid info., family and friends
Maintaining a balanced energy in the home
Scented candles
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