Stress Meditation- Releasing Daily Stress
INNER StressManagement
Practices To:
Release Daily Stress
Restore Our Emotions
Reduce Future Stress
“It’s gotta be fun”
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
OBJECTIVE: To provide educational materials & practices to have more fun & less stress.
GOALS: The 3 Goals of Stress Meditation to:
STUDY: What will be taught?
PRACTICE: We practice the development of intention and attention. The 3 practices are:
APPLYING: These practices can result in learning new skills that can then transfer into your daily life. Reducing stress and improving relationships, creativity and your emotional intelligence quotient (EQ).
PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS:
MEDITATION TIPS:
*Continuously, let go of expecting too much of ourselves or of the meditation.
*When confused or concerned always gently return to the grounding sensations of the body.
*Life can sometimes be taken too seriously, Yogi’s motto is. “its gotta be fun”
CONCERNS:
Disclaimer:
1. All materials are for educational purposes only and do not to take the place of professional care.
2. Generalizations are used sometimes to simplify the complexities of the body, heart and mind.
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THE STUDY TOPIC OF GROUNDING:
Stress Loops
How Stress Loops are Formed
* 1min: If an experience is perceived to be threatening, causing an emotion to form.
* 10min: If the mind adds stressful thoughts. This is called a stress loop.
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1hr: If the stress loop continues, our hormone levels become un-balanced.
* The AWARENESS practice of “Stopping & Dropping” breaks the stress loop.
BEING GROUNDED
“Grounding, allows us to accept all of life”
Introduction, when we meet someone who is grounded in the present moment, someone who is not caught up in their own moods and options. They stand out for us. We have a sense of respect and trust towards them. We may even remark fondly about their ability to be present "she/he is really down to earth".
Why ground back into the body?
* Grounding provides trust and self confidence
* Grounding reduces anxious thoughts of the future
* Grounding weakens the harmful emotions from the past
Grounding Practices:
Stress Yoga Practice: The Body Scan
Stress Meditation Practice: "Stopping & Dropping"
Closing Discussion:
Words of Wisdom: Don’t judge yourself too harshly - Anger has a lot of energy.
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THE PRACTICE OF GROUNDING:
“Stopping & Dropping”
Stress Yoga: Body Scanning & Body Postures
1. Chose a posture and or a body scan that you like and is grounding for you!
2. Become aware of the body’s sensations as you breath and move in a posture.
3. Offer a caring intention to the body and its posture “may the body be well”.
Stress Meditation:
When staring to meditate, please remember 3 things: The intention, the body & the breath.
Next:
1. Stop without thinking, and drop down into the grounding sensations of the body.
* Guide the process with a phrase of intention “breathing in deeply and letting go completely”
2. When distracted, bring the AWARENESS back to sensations of the body and breath.
* Gently guiding the process “no place to go”, “no thing to do”, “no one to please”
3. Just continue to stop and drop the AWARENESS back into the body.
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This breaks the emotional thought stress loops, and no thing more needs to be done!
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APPLYING THE PRACTICE:
Stopping & Dropping makes a difference in daily life.
The more often that we remember to be interested in:
* the intentions of the mind
* the sensations of the body
* the qualities of the breath
The sooner we will recognize and release stress, before it builds up to a unhealthy level.
Homework:
Chose 1 one of these 3 triggers to stop.
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Each time you are stopped in traffic or in a line up
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Before you make a phone call or receive a call
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Each time you feel angry or sad
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