Are you familiar with the situation when a great mood suddenly turns into distress due to some external event?
Mindfulness is gone.
What is the trigger? How to restore your former spirits and confidence?
Today I will tell you what happens when you find yourself in a stressful situation. You will receive an algorithm that will help you turn on mindfulness and restore balance.
The mechanism of falling out of a mindful state
Every person has traumas, weak spots that they do not want to show others, and some even to themselves.
Some you are well acquainted with, perhaps working on healing them, and there are also those that are hidden from your view.
You are unaware of their existence until others or specific events expose them.
These weak spots are your red buttons. If they are pressed, an immediate reaction appears in the form of a surge of negative emotions.
You get involved in sorting out relationships, the grievance grows, irritation rises — this is how the ego reacts.
The safety, survival mechanism kicks in. At that moment, you close up like a clam and leave your higher self outside of it.
Now you are a human and react on a human level. Outside of this shell, you do not exist.
You lose the ability to think mindfully. You are guided by emotions.
Mindfulness and reactions are incompatible, they are on different poles.
If consciousness is controlled by a reaction, negative emotions, then the state of mindfulness is turned off.
When you are in harmony and balance, you are able to find a way out of any difficult situation because you look at the situation from above. Emotions are precisely what prevent you from seeing this.
Therefore, your task is to switch into a state of mindfulness.
Read below on how to do this.
Practice dynamic meditation to remain in a mindful state at all times.
How to activate mindfulness in a stressful situation. A simple algorithm
Step 1. Breathe through your heart
To disengage from stress, breathe slowly and deeply through your heart. Mindful breathing and stress are incompatible.
When you breathe deeply, you mentally switch your focus to this process and stop thinking about the cause of stress.
Experiment. First, breathe rapidly and shallowly for a minute, then slowly and deeply.
When you take short, shallow breaths in and out, can you remain calm and harmonious?
Even if your state was completely balanced before, you will begin to feel slight nervousness. This is how we breathe under stress.
When you breathe deeply, mindfully, fully concentrating on the sensations in your body, the mind slows down, and you calm down.
The problem will not disappear, but your state will gradually become balanced.
Heart breathing is the simplest and most accessible spiritual practice. This one technique alone is enough for your life to start changing for the better, provided it is applied regularly.
Step 2. Give vent to your emotions
As long as emotions are locked inside your body, you cannot be mindful.
Identify what exactly you are feeling and let off steam, preferably in an eco-friendly way. Live through the emotions, no matter how unpleasant it may be for you.
Treat this process as healing.
- If it is resentment, pain — find an opportunity to be alone with yourself to cry. Even if you cannot hold back tears in the presence of others (many are embarrassed by this), do not judge yourself. This is not the right time to think about saving face.
- Active physical actions will help to “burn” anger, rage: squats, running up the stairs, hand-washing laundry, beating a rug. The main thing is not to overdo it. Anger is a fairly strong emotion. Do not hand over the reins to it.
- If you are overcome by anxiety, worry, turn to Archangel Michael for protection. You will immediately feel his presence.
Here you will find 3 powerful protection techniques of Archangel Michael
Step 3. Switch your attention
Stop directing your attention to the unpleasant situation. Shift your focus to something that will please you at the moment.
If the situation is really serious, find something neutral.
Attention! Switching will not work if there are unreleased emotions left inside.
Switching does not mean forgetting that you were deceived, offended, or betrayed.
It means returning yourself to a conscious state, restoring the connection with the spirit.
So that later, from a vertical perspective, you can look at the situation from the outside and easily see the lesson embedded within it.
I will talk about ways to switch and how to create your own switch in the next article.
And what helps you turn on mindfulness? I would appreciate your feedback in the comments!
The article uses materials from accompanying webinars for clients of the Keys of Mastery Training Center.