Are you striving to find true happiness and continuously reaching out for that in your life? You may find it’s easier to experience pure joy rather than searching for true happiness, what then?
How do you ‘redefine happiness’ or notice things around you that make you happy? You pay more attention to the trees and the flowers, enjoy the feel of the sun on your skin, or take a leisurely stroll in the park, get creative painting or drawing, or bask in the warmth of your partner’s or child’s loving gaze but that isn’t enough. There are many things that should make us happy so why is it we continue to look for happiness? What is missing from our lives that makes happiness so difficult to attain? Why isn’t it enough or fulfilling enough to be satisfied with what we have or what we have achieved?
Well, this post is about how to appreciate the simple pleasures in life, look at things from a more mindful perspective, to ‘just be’ with your thoughts, positive & negative. This can have a very positive effect on your wellbeing and can redefine your happiness in the future. In a typical guided practise take pleasurable memories from the past and redefine them in a recent context applying positive emotions to your thoughts and that brings a sense of joy to our life.
That may sound easy, but this applies to all emotions, positive and negative. A mindful practice can increase feelings of positivity because it changes the meaning of your stressors, making them more tolerable.
Paying attention to both positive and negative feelings may also make you more aware of negative feelings and sensations, such as tension in your body. Some feelings or thoughts may be difficult or uncomfortable to tolerate so positive feelings may be observed but then quickly replaced by negative ones. Therefore, it may take more than just noticing them to help you be happier!
Mindfulness is to slow down, deliberately focusing on different aspects of your experience, such as what you feel in your body (e.g. body temperature, breathing, muscles); what you feel in your thoughts, emotions, or senses (what you see, hear, taste, feel or smell); or what is happening around you (e.g. listening mindfully to someone who is talking). When your attention wanders, you begin to notice this shift and deliberately bring it back to whatever you have decided to focus on.
There is a very easy practise I do as a way to release and refocus the body & mind on the all the senses and it takes just 15mins to do…remain seated, upright in a chair for this one and relax…
The 3 Key Techniques – there are 3 main principles in Sophrology and they are incorporated into our everyday lives in the following ways:
- Be non-judgmental – to look at things with a neutral approach, as if for the first time.
- A beginner’s mind – to see the world as you would a child, with curiosity and wonder.
- Aliveness – accepting reality without any preconceived notions or ideas, noticing any sensations.
And while this may sound frivolous or even a little weird to some, the research suggests that developing this human capacity to observe ourselves and our surroundings without judgment and with compassion has deep and nourishing affects on our wellbeing that ripple out into our daily lives and communities.
Sophro Balance can provide you with the necessary tools for you to take a regular practice to another level so that you can experience what it’s like to feel happier and more joyful in your own skin.
Contact me for advice on how Sophro Balance could benefit your personal journey of change and transformation.
Please leave a comment, like or share this post with others would also be greatly appreciated! Thank you for reading…
SOPHRO BALANCE for Wellbeing 
Leave a comment