A sense of well-being is aided by knowing and understanding yourself. This includes understanding your psychological needs, how they might fluctuate over time and how they map to your values and behaviours. It is a big subject but I believe understanding why you feel as you do is a good tool for managing yourself. So her goes….
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For Alison Wem, that realisation came in the early hours as, newly widowed with children and a demanding job, she confronted her anguish – and found a space of calmness and route to strength, love and guidance.
Follow 7 easy-to-do steps to create your soul map, a route to your ‘inner you’– your sub-conscious mind, higher self or soul, depending on your beliefs. Gain insight into who you are and where your life is going. Identify who is on this journey with you and how you are helping each other with learning life lessons.
Your ‘inner you’ or soul can feel constrained by your body in your earthly life. Yet nature’s music can relax, inspire and bring clarity of thought to you.
I believe your ‘inner you’ can travel on sound such as water and music. You can go beyond your body and re-experience the freedom you have in the Afterlife.
This is why humans respond so strongly to these sounds and find them relaxing and sleep inducing.
In sleep a part of you returns home for advice, guidance and inspiration on your life and its challenges.
Hope is a very strong emotion. Essential to survival, calmness in the face of calamity and a positive outlook on life.
Belief in a good outcome builds on hope.
Happiness is about doing what feels good to you. Find out what is important to you and makes you feel good. Painting your soul map will bring you closer to understanding your personal happiness.
Wondering what to do of a weekend? Come to a Your Soul Family workshop and paint a soul map using one of our templates. No artistic skills are required, its much like the painting by numbers we did as children. Fun, creative and relaxing – you will be surprised at the insights you receive about you and your life. Feel the calmness come in as you paint.
In many cultures and communities, men are the leaders at work and at home. They earn a living for the family and have more limited involvement in rearing the children. Of course much of this is changing but it is not ubiquitous yet.
Recently a 55-year-old man from a traditional mining community confided to me he decided not to follow the traditional male role and to express his appreciation of the benefits that mindfulness brought him. He is a grandfather and decided not to work so hard so he could be more involved with his grandchildren. He wished he had done it with his own children.
Bringing calmness into your life: team members’ well-being and good mental health are key to a high performing workforce. However, the reality is that many people at work today experience feelings of being overwhelmed, not able to get through their ‘today’s task list’ and worried about keeping on top of everything. Individuals can become anxious Sunday evening as they think about the return to work on Monday.
If you cannot run harder you need to run smarter.
