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5 Mindfulness Activities at Home to Calm Anxiety
This situation has come with challenges to defeat day after day.
I am at home with my partner and even though I try to keep my mind busy, sometimes I have breakdowns from being locked at home. I had to find mindfulness activities at home to calm down my anxiety and my nerves.
All this pandemic situation has come with challenges to defeat day after day:
- Work from home on a daily basis
2. Having a wave of feelings all at once
3. Feeling nervous and anxious
4. Experiencing different moods in a single evening
Through my journey, I have to find a way to calm down my anxiety with different mindfulness activities. If you are here probably you are looking for some hacks to relieve your mind out of stress and anxiety, let’s go straight to the point.
1. STOP WORKING
An easy thing to guess but probably not the most obvious thing to do, especially when we are busy.
Treat yourself as an old electronic device which overheated and won’t work again unless it has some rest.
For this one, try not only to stop your work activities but to turn off your electronic devices. Do it at least for the next hour, while you do the next activities to calm down your anxiety.
Please don’t start scrolling down your phone without any purpose. Let’s get active.
2. DO CLEANING
Nothing more enjoyable but cleaned, cleared, and organized spaces. Doesn’t matter if you are a very organized person, I am sure that at your right you have something out of place. Take the time to put everything in their place: dirty dishes, notebooks, pencils, and books. Find a proper place for every item.
The more clutter you can see, the more easily you’ll find yourself distracted.
This is an extra activity to do for calming anxiety: I do the whole cleaning of my working space: organize, swipe, and wipe the floor after finding a place for every item. This will help you to feel organized and active. Believe me!
3. PLAN YOUR NEXT DAY
Planning your next day will bring you so much gratification.
Anxious comes because you are not feeling in control of everything. That’s what experts say. Although you can’t control everything, you can control yourself and your decisions. Planning your day in advance will make you realize that you haven’t lost the path, you still in control of your life.
The negative anxiety will turn into positive anxiety to wake up on a new day and start over again.
Doing this made me feel nervous and anxious as when I was a kid and was about to have the first day of school. Do you remember that feeling?
4. TAKE A GLIMPSE OUTSIDE
No, neighbours, I am not a stalker. Hehe
Observing from the window will surprise you.
You can enjoy the dogs that are being walked, kids being kids: playing, running, and laughing. Little squirrels jumping from here to there, birds singing, and nature itself. You can see how the leaves from the trees are falling or the branches moving by the wind.
Suddenly you will find yourself clearing out your mind and taking a break from yourself. You will have lots of thoughts but won’t stop to rethink any of them. You will also take your negative thoughts away and focus on what you have in front of you.
Observe what happens in front of you while you are distracted by being busy.
5. WRITE TO YOUR LOVED ONES
Ok, take your phone. Turn on the Wi-Fi and message your family and friends.
I must point out that this should be done after taking a shower and treating yourself well: skincare routine, brush your hair, or whatever ritual you may have.
Friends and family may not write you because they think you are always busy and in fact, you are but remind them you are always there for them.
Write to those people who you haven’t seen in months or even years. An update is always good and reviving the good old times is always a hug to the heart.
Also, make sure you share with your beloved ones how you are feeling. Maybe they are also having the same struggles with life, and sometimes empathy is what we need. The feeling of not being the only weirdo with anxiety caused by locked down is always a relief.
For some time I thought that having my mind busy and occupied with my personal projects would lead me to have a healthy mind, sure it helps. But I realized I also need some other enjoyable activities to escape from the productivity loop and take a rest. Recover touch with my old friends, watching nature out there, and keeping my spaces clean are small activities that really got me relief from feeling anxious from lockdown
Calming my mind has not happened from one day to another but I finally find relief and escape with these 5 Mindfulness Activities. Hopefully, these help you to find your personal relief activities.
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Thank you for reading.
-GladSea
