practice – Esoteric Realms

Many of us tend to zone out after days of work and studies, terrible routines and lack of self-care we turn to the ability to zone out to be our saving grace. When we zone out we hope to press the reset button but all we do is check out for a moment to return to the ever ensuing chaos around us wearing us down.

I am learning to zen out, I really feel it once I’ve done it properly. I can’t rush it or force it to happen to be achieved quickly. It’s a personal process and a step we can take every day. For me, I tend to self future journal, I really allow things inside me to speak and I listen instead of the other way around. I begin to reflect a lot deeper and allow this time to be calm and quiet with music or just the sounds of life outside my window which usually fades the deeper I go. I can do this anywhere but choose to make my home my sanctuary of peace and blissful zen. I always feel like I have actually achieved a state of rest and refresh.

I compare my experience and transition from trying to just zone out to actual zen out and the experience is one you must have for yourself. Only you can take yourself to the next level and silence the noise in your life, calm and refocus the doubts and put a pin in the stresses of daily expectations.

I encourage you to give this a try and see the difference. You will not only feel relaxed but you will begin to see the changes in you and your life. You’ll see first hand how a minute of intentional meditation can change your day and if you do this every day, you’ll see your life take a new higher path, you’ll begin ascension into a fresh journey. We all have the power inside ourselves and mind, we just need to learn how to begin the process of change. We have nothing to lose and all to gain.

I hope you all take some time to hit the refresh button this lovely Sunday and just relax. I find it very hard to do this as there is always something to do, but I’ve had to start making the time.

How many times do we push ourselves to the brink of exhaustion, everything we do is under pressure and we rush and hurry. As a mother this is bound to happen, trying to get a toddler and baby ready then somehow myself. Everyone depends on me to do things for them and others call on me because I’m dependable and always happy to help but in amongst this I forget me. I forget how important I am and I forget how to relax and unwind, mostly because I feel like I can’t or shouldn’t or don’t have the option to. Sound familiar?

This is where I had to acknowledge my pattern of behaviour and how negatively it was affecting me. I had to learn to let go of the rush and time press and just let things sit for a minute because making time to do things is as almost as important as being able to relax and re-centre yourself. Leave all the weight at the door and enter your own sanctuary where you can find peace to carry throughout your day. I try to be very intentional with my mornings and start my day off with #futureselfjournaling and just let the dishes be, they’re always going to exist.

What seems to be lacking is my ability to unwind for a minute and finding my focus for the day. Without, I realised how unsettled I am.

I encourage you, just take a minute with a cup of something and sit outside, turn your room into a cove of peace or even in the shower and most importantly leave the phone behind. Just breathe, focus on something your day seems to revolve around and begin to speak life into it, see it in your mind how well will go and how successful it will be. If things go another way not planned to your expectations, learn to be thankful for it and learn to accept the things we have no control over, learn to see it as a necessary outcome as much as things must happen so they mustn’t. We seem to be angered at the thought that something we have revolved out thought and emotion around and invested doesn’t come to fruition, we built ourselves up for frustration instead of seeing with new eyes and allowing things to take us down a different path and to see it is good too.

Ready yourself for a day with a focus and hopefully, you’ll be able to feel the calm wash over you. You’ll find your centre and be ready to approach this day with new thoughts and fresh emotions. As a parent, I try to do this when both my children are happy and occupied or asleep. It doesn’t take long and just sets us all up for a great if not, wonderful day.

As a parent this is apart of my change into conscious parenting. It will make a difference as a worker, as a parent, child, every individual. This is NOT just sitting and doing nothing, you are purposefully breaking a habit and creating a new one where you a letting go of the negative thoughts and feelings and deciding to take on new positive ones instead. You are aligning yourself to a new way of living and being. You are choosing to be better, calming, more conscious of yourself and of others.

I hope you enjoy your day and try a new mindset, wear calm and feel the strength from your new set day.

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