{"id":3088,"date":"2012-12-13T18:18:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T23:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2012-12-13T18:18:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T23:18:45","slug":"practice-your-way-to-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=3088","title":{"rendered":"Practice Your Way to Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m looking for practices that support my well-being and my staying connected to who I am, besides meditation (which I\u2019ve tried and I just can\u2019t seem to get the hang of!).\u00a0 Any good ones you know of that really work?<\/em><\/p>\n

Ken, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n

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Why yes, Ken, I do!\u00a0 This is one of my favorite topics to speak to, as I have found in my own experience as well as the experiences of my clients that engaging in a daily practice is the single most important thing you can do for yourself, and happens to be the key to sustaining your connection and well-being.\u00a0 When you show up for yourself in this way with such consistency, commitment and discipline, you are becoming aligned and present in life in such a way that positively and powerfully impacts every aspect of it.\u00a0 The reason for this is because engaging consistently in practices such as meditation allows you to stay in a high-vibrating, good-feeling place, and you are able to access more clarity, truth, intuition, wisdom, inspiration, motivation, etc. than when you are feeling disconnected, negative, and vibrating low.\u00a0 So I always encourage my clients (and myself) to make their daily practices as important and as high of a priority as eating, sleeping and breathing are, and I\u2019m not exaggerating.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ll get off my soapbox now and give you 3 of my favorites:<\/p>\n

~ Daily Gratitudes: Each day spend a few quiet moments writing down at least 10 things that you are truly grateful for, and consciously choose to make your first and last thoughts of the day thoughts of gratitude.\u00a0 I have no doubt in my mind that if each and every one of us did this the world would be a much better place.<\/p>\n

~ Incantations: Very similar to affirmations, yet waaaaayyyyyy more powerful because we are engaging your energy and physiology with the words to produce the \u201cfeeling\u201d of what you are saying.\u00a0 Let me explain.\u00a0 You know how sometimes repeating an affirmation or a mantra can sometimes get frustrating because while you are saying it you are very aware that you are not feeling it?\u00a0 With an incantation, we choose our statement, and repeat it with feeling, much like an actor delivering a line.\u00a0 We also repeat it while engaging in a \u201cpower move\u201d or stance, a movement or position that makes you feel powerful.\u00a0 The results are quite magical.\u00a0 For example, if you were to use the incantation, \u201cI am confident and happy\u201d, repeating it several times with emotion while moving your body powerfully (or even just standing in a yoga pose or something), you would find yourself feeling confident within minutes, sometimes seconds.\u00a0 You see, incantations help us immediately manifest the emotion<\/em>, which is what we\u2019re looking for anyway.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the house, the car, the job, the relationship, etc. that we want, it\u2019s how we think it\u2019s going to make us feel.\u00a0 Imagine being able to feel however we wanted to without the things we think we need in order to feel it first \u2013 that would mean we literally do not need anything outside of ourselves in order to feel good (see: illusion of need from \u201cCommunion with God\u201d)!\u00a0 And a lovely added benefit to this is that our very \u201cfeeling\u201d or \u201cbeing\u201d draws those things to us (see: process of creation from \u201cHappier Than God\u201d)!<\/p>\n

~ Meditation:\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, I get it \u2013 you\u2019re not good at it.\u00a0 But I\u2019m going to include it anyway because the benefits are endless, and I\u2019d like to offer you a new approach\/perspective on it: there is no wrong way to meditate.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s sitting in silence with your eyes closed focusing on your breath, doing a guided meditation, or just daydreaming, you are benefiting.\u00a0 Try a few different things on, without judging them, just notice which method you like best.\u00a0 And start small \u2013 even 3 minutes a day every day can work wonders.<\/p>\n

Try these out, Ken, and see how they feel.\u00a0 But give it a good two weeks of committing to practice these every day no matter what so that you can really feel the impact.\u00a0 Because it doesn\u2019t really matter what you do, it\u2019s the fact that you take time to go within consistently that creates the experience of well-being and connection.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n

(Nova Wightman is a CWG Life Coach, as well as the owner and operator of Go Within Life Coaching, www.gowithincoaching.com, specializing in helping individuals blend their spirituality with their humanity in a way that makes life more enjoyable, easy, and fulfilling.\u00a0 She can be reached at Nova@theglobalconversation.com. )<\/em><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m looking for practices that support my well-being and my staying connected to who I am, besides meditation (which I\u2019ve tried and I just can\u2019t seem to get the hang of!).\u00a0 Any good ones you know of that really work? Ken, Ohio \u00a0 Why yes, Ken, I do!\u00a0 This is one of my favorite topics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[230,713,436,714,201,711,684,712],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","tag-communion-with-god","tag-connection","tag-gratitude","tag-happier-than-god","tag-meditation","tag-practices","tag-vibration","tag-well-being"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3090,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/3090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}