Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Hello dear reader!

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is what I'd like to discuss with you this day.

How are you doing? My prayer is that you are finding joy in the journey.

Do you ever feel like something is missing in your life? Maybe you have everything anyone could ever want like, happiness, health, love, magnificent relationships, and wealth. Yet, you still feel like something is missing.

Years ago, I felt very empty at times, even though I had everything, and yet I still felt empty, like something was missing. Looking back, I should have been very satisfied. Don't get me wrong, I was happy much of the time. For goodness sake, I had everything anyone could, would, and should need and want. 

Also looking back, I had anger, anxiety, depression, and despair. My energy was very split because when I had fun in front of me, I was occupied and happy. But, when I was alone, I wallowed in negative emotions.

There are so many variables to my past happiness and misery, but one thing stands out, and that is I was missing something.

That something was a quiet connection to God, and I slowly gained it by meditation practice. After meditating for twenty one years, my connection to God is clear, and I feel complete, without any emptiness.

The thing I think I was missing was me. What I mean by that is my full alertness and awareness to the present moment. The anger, anxiety, depression, and despair came from, in my opinion, a racing mind. This racing mind is a disconnection from God, and myself.

Remember the scripture...

"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and love, and a sound mind." ~2 Timothy 1:7, Holy Bible, KJV

The spirit of power is emotional, mental, and physical, is it not? Truly a successful life of spiritual expansion begins mentally. The school of life is a mindful ninja practice into spirituality.

All this ramble is for the persuasion of mindfulness based stress reduction, which is spiritual expansion, said in different words.

Think about it for a second. Mindfulness is a practice of alertness and awareness to the present moment, which gives safety and security. A racing mind is all about what one needs to do in the future, and what happened in the past. 

A person really is missing if he or she is in the future or past. How can anyone enjoy life when he or she is missing.

To practice mindfulness based stress reduction, is to practice, into permanence, complete awareness of the environment, people, safety, and security.

Mindfulness is complete presence, meditation, and quieting the mind.

Mindfulness based stress reduction, perfects, through permanent practice, inner peace.

If you feel like something is missing in your life, especially if you have everything you could ever ask for, or if you are dissatisfied with everything in your life, try the exercise that follows.

Every morning, first thing, and every evening, after you lay your head on your pillow to fall asleep, practice the following.

Step one: inhale slowly through your nose, filling your lungs to capacity, and then exhale through your mouth. Do this gently, and slowly.

Step two: as you inhale and exhale, consciously focus on following your breath in and out. This brings you to the present moment.

Step three: as you exhale, imagine all of the tension leaving your body through the exhale, and feel your entire body give way to gravity and relaxation.

Step four: consciously focus on following your breath in and out, and just feel, and notice, your heart beat, every so often. This breath and heart beat is life, and you are focusing on life, not in the thoughts of later today, tomorrow, or yesterday.

Step five: when a thought try's to come into your mind, whisper softly in your mind, "faith, patience, and trust." Know, and remember, mindfulness based stress reduction is literally practicing complete presence, which gives practice to faith, patience, and trust.

Step six: make it a conscious practice, into permanence, to bring yourself to this mindfulness based stress reduction throughout the day, especially at the beginning of any negative emotions that want to rise.

Step seven: do it for life! Never give up, and never stop! If you never stop, I believe, you will get better and better at life, and there shall be no bitter. That is how important I believe mindfulness practice is.

The most important thing to remember, in my opinion, is that our habits come by human conditioning. We are beings who have been conditioned into our present habits. The emotional emptiness, a person may feel, can, and will be replaced by feelings of calm, confidence, and fullness, if he or she, reconditions by practice. The only thing is, a person must do the work if he or she wants healthier habits.

Do you want calm?

Do you want confidence?

Would you like to believe in yourself more?

Would you like to feel more fulfilled?

If so, practicing, by desire, makes perfect permanence, my dear friend.

I know this is so.

I do not believe that calm, confidence, faith, patience, and trust comes by practicing split energy. As I mentioned above, my energy was split because I was allowing what was happening, around me, to govern my emotions rather than me governing my mindfulness. 

This mindfulness, gives me connection to God, and it guides me and inspires me, moment by moment.

Although, I want more, and more out of life, I do not feel an emptiness. 

It's alright to enjoy life, and want more. 

It is hurtful to the self, in my opinion, to feel nothing is ever good enough, because you are the one missing in your life. It is also my humble opinion that when a person feels like something is missing, it is more likely their power that is missing, more than anything else.

When we don't have power, we feel powerless. I want, with all my might, and strength, to point the person, who wants more, towards the direction to know their power.

Why? Why on earth would I want to point a person, who wants more, in the direction to know their power? Because, when we discover our power, all negative emotions that creep up on a daily basis, fall away, and we are able to feel, and know God more.

If I could persuade the world to meditate, I would because I believe, with all my heart and soul, more people could, and would live in their power. More people could, and would, feel more fulfilled, and on purpose.

Praying for you, and your success, dear reader...

Praying for you, to never give up on you...

I won't!

That's all I got my dear friend...

Except, you know, I love...

I love you! You may think me ridiculous, but when you know who you really are, you will love like I do too.

God bless you dear sweet one!

Speak soon...

Elizabeth

Persuasion for Meditation

Hello there, my friend!

Persuasion for meditation is what I'd like to write about this day.

How are you doing? I'm ever praying for your comfort and connection to God.

In my last post, Increase in Stress, I discussed meditation and how it is the number one thing I recommend to destress. 

Holidays are on the way, and preparing for and preventing stress is wise.

Meditation is one of the most excellent exercises we can practice to destress our minds. Many people do not participate in this practice because they are unaware of the benefits of meditation or believe they cannot meditate. 

To convince individuals opposed to meditation, one must look at the benefits. Before discussing the advantages, let us keep an open mind to possibilities in our lives that we may learn about and improve our current circumstances.

When stressed out, our mind is constantly going and racing. 

Meditation is a way to rest, quiet our minds, and increase our ability to silence our minds throughout the day so that we can handle daily stress easily. 

Meditation helps by creating a habit of having a clear mind so that we can bring ourselves to a place of peace at any time and anywhere regularly.

We need peace because, in our fast-paced world, we experience many stressors. The number one stressor is a habitual, harmful mind full of doubt, fear, and worry. One may have a chronic racing mind, which creates habits of insecurity and self-doubt on autopilot. 

When a person is on autopilot, they may unknowingly focus on thoughts of lack, other people's offenses, and the unfairness of life. In addition, thinking things  aren't going their way, or they need to control others' behaviors to believe they will be okay. 

Beliefs like the ones mentioned above give way to the inability to enjoy life because of unwanted emotions of fear, insecurity, and stress. Stress displays its unwanted self as anger, anxiety, depression, irritability, or moodiness, which, more often than not, creates despair.

Unwanted negative emotions deplete and drain our energy. Negative emotions are the real vampires of energy.

Another stressor is the powerlessness to fall asleep at night, stay asleep, or get essential hours of sleep due to a noisy mind.

One can resolve many of the mentioned stressful habits by learning to meditate. By teaching ourselves to quiet the mind, we discover and create a pattern that will make our lives happier and healthier because of the art and skill of calm, peace, relaxation, and silence in our bodies and minds. 

Being still is to understand the ultimate control of and patience for life. When we learn to control our body and mind, we have authority over two of our most valuable assets. If we become patient, we will have a less stressed and happier life.

Meditation can and will help anyone find a Spiritual place and space. 

Finally, meditation will better assist us in hearing that still small voice of guidance and inspiration from God, which comes more easily when we have a calm, confident connection to our Father in Heaven.

It is my humble opinion, from education, evidence, and experience, that it is more common to feel and hear the Divine Guidance and Love of God more readily with a quiet, still, mind. 

Wouldn't you love to increase your connection to God?

Wouldn't you love to feel God more?

Do you know what God feels like?

God does not ever feel like negative emotion because God is love.

God feels like love, which is what everyone wants to feel.

We have the authority and power to quiet our minds through meditation and create a calm, confident connection with God.

We have the authority and power to receive guidance and inspiration from our Father in Heaven more readily by quieting our minds. 

We have the authority and power to develop and discover more energy, more love, and more joy in our lives through quieting our minds by practicing meditation regularly, and one can begin with five short minutes a day.

What do you say?

Have I convinced you to begin meditation or increase your current practice? 

If so, click here to begin by listening to the sounds of this five-minute meditation video.

If you would love a blissful life of energy and being in love, I would invite you to begin a meditation practice and never give it up. 

That's really all I got...

For now...

Big Hugs to you, my friend!

Big Hugs and Big Prayers!

Speak soon...

Elizabeth Stanfill 

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