A healthy relationship! 1. Nourish yourself and eat foods that fuel your mind and body to be healthy and strong. Foods high in fat and sugar may comfort your anxiety initially, but they also cause inflammation, fatigue and more depression or anxiety. Food is neither reward nor punishment. It is fuel. Follow the Mediterranean diet or the Paleolithic diet, and you might find you have more energy than you have ever had in your life. 2. Exercise and stay active, keeping your body fit and strong. Physical activity will also help you raise the happy chemicals in your body like serotonin and lower stress hormones. Find an activity that you enjoy, that makes you feel good so that you are more likely to go back for more. 3. Connect with friends, therapists or healers who can support you to feel good about you. In other words, surround yourself with other individuals who can help you reflect and stick to training, a healthy diet, and maintain positive emotions and outlook. 4. Quiet your mind. The mind is a wonderful tool, but constant negative thinking can get you and your body in trouble as the stress response abounds. You can choose from a variety of meditation practices or take a mindful walk in nature. Focusing on the beauty and wonder around you will take you out of your mind. One simple technique uses the breath. You can imagine that when you exhale, your thoughts dissolve into the sunlight and when you inhale, the sunlight enters your mind. As you continue with this process, the light eventually moves throughout your entire your body, filling you with a sense of peace and joy. 5. Catch your negative emotions before they gain so much momentum that knock you and everyone else over. This means always pay attention to how you feel. If you feel badly, your stress hormones are up, which means you will be more likely to enter conflict and not come out of it well. It also means you feel less whole and you will start seeking someone or something else to make you feel better, leading to poor food, partner or word choices in an argument. If you feel badly, do what you need to do to take care of the bad feeling. Go for a walk in nature, call a friend, meditate, or choose to think about a situation or feeling that does feel good. Doing the above exercise is a good option. 6. Have fun! Wake up in the morning and choose to have a luscious and adventurous day. Find ways to be more playful. Go out with friends, sign up for a dance class even if you have two left feet, so you can laugh at yourself, or watch a funny movie. Discover new ways of being that put a smile on your face and a laugh in your heart. 7. Appreciate what you have and that you are. When you are filled with gratitude, you are more likely to see any situation as an opportunity for growth and meaning, rather than bad or a curse. You are more likely to feel happy. In short, you want to get on the path to loving yourself. Believe in your own ability to create, joy, ease, comfort and love. Do what you need to feel alive, vibrant and healthy in the most positive of ways that do not induce negative feelings of any kind (like guilt, shame, anger or remorse). In other words, do things for yourself that feel good. When you feel good, you radiate goodness. Everyone else wants to be around you and you do not lose yourself in relationships.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:03:22 +0000
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