If there is one concern that comes up time and time again, in working with self improvement, it is how to get our lives into balance. When talking about balance as the root issue, we are normally talking about how to deal with how you balance your emotions. Because when your emotions are unbalanced it creates a type of snow ball effect to the other parts of your life. Namely your relationships, work, energy levels, intimacy and just overall happiness.
It is very easy to see, and more importantly feel, when we began to get off balance. But once we are there it is much harder to first figure out why and second how to get back into balance. The answer to finding out why lies in our ability to become aware of the emotions that triggered us to become out of balance in the first place. In this article I will discuss three simple ways to help you become more aware of your emotions in order to see where and why your emotions began to slip and get out of balance. Let's tilt the scale back in the positive direction!
1. Give Yourself a Break:
As we all know, stress is never a good thing and anyone that says they do better writing a large document the night before is a liar. By giving yourself a break you are letting your mind and body relax in order to be able to have clearer focus and better intuition into your emotions. When you are stressed your mind and body are blocked by the negative energy the stress is creating. By taking a break from the stress you are breaking down the negative energy and rebuilding it with positive energy used to be aware of what is really important to you.
As we all know, stress is never a good thing and anyone that says they do better writing a large document the night before is a liar. By giving yourself a break you are letting your mind and body relax in order to be able to have clearer focus and better intuition into your emotions. When you are stressed your mind and body are blocked by the negative energy the stress is creating. By taking a break from the stress you are breaking down the negative energy and rebuilding it with positive energy used to be aware of what is really important to you.
2. Weigh The Options:
Is it painful? Maybe. Will you like it? Maybe not. Will it help you get back into balance? Absolutely. Writing down our pros and cons of any situation will make you take a step back and look at things from a different perspective. This is because you are now not only thinking of it in your head but using the senses of your touch to write it, your eyes and possibly mouth to read it and then you brain again to process it in a different manner than it processed it before, as just a thought. I know that may have sounded complicated, but believe me, when we write things down we grow in our understanding. And when we look at things in the form of options we have a better understanding of our true priorities. That my friends is the essence of balance, being in line with your priorities and emotions.
Is it painful? Maybe. Will you like it? Maybe not. Will it help you get back into balance? Absolutely. Writing down our pros and cons of any situation will make you take a step back and look at things from a different perspective. This is because you are now not only thinking of it in your head but using the senses of your touch to write it, your eyes and possibly mouth to read it and then you brain again to process it in a different manner than it processed it before, as just a thought. I know that may have sounded complicated, but believe me, when we write things down we grow in our understanding. And when we look at things in the form of options we have a better understanding of our true priorities. That my friends is the essence of balance, being in line with your priorities and emotions.
3. Avoid Distractions:
Goals and plans get written down everyday, and everyday some of those goals and plans never get completed. I believe that most of us do not lose our motivation but get distracted and lose our focus. Losing focus and losing motivation are two very different sensations within the overall concept of balance. Losing motivation in many instances can easily be found with something as simple as someone asking you, "so how's that project going?" Instantly the emotions flood back in and your back in the saddle. Losing focus or becoming distracted however, can be much harder to bounce back from.
Goals and plans get written down everyday, and everyday some of those goals and plans never get completed. I believe that most of us do not lose our motivation but get distracted and lose our focus. Losing focus and losing motivation are two very different sensations within the overall concept of balance. Losing motivation in many instances can easily be found with something as simple as someone asking you, "so how's that project going?" Instantly the emotions flood back in and your back in the saddle. Losing focus or becoming distracted however, can be much harder to bounce back from.
The reason is, when we get distracted it is normally because the thing we need to be doing is something we don't necessarily want to do. This is why you see people, or yourself, getting distracted and losing focus in the middle or towards the end when all of the fun activities have been completed and only the important, hard and boring ones are left. The answer lies in keeping the end result in your mind and the beginning emotions of excitement in your spirit. The combination of these two will help you stay focused and avoid getting caught up in easy distractions that will only hurt your success in the long run.
Let's be completely honest with each other, we will all get out of balance from time to time in our life. It is the nature of the universe and one of the great things that make us unique. How we pull ourselves back into balance and learn from our experience into what put us there in the first place is the real challenge. This is a challenge I enjoy making, not only for myself but for others as well. So challenge your emotions to become one of the triggers that set you off balance. Then use one of these or your own method to get back into balance and avoid slipping off balance again in the same manner. All can be accomplished when we focus our actions and strengths and become aware of who we are.
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