Shift Your Perspective While Mastering Your Emotions

Hello and welcome to MindfulMornings midweek motivation - the complement to Sunday’s newsletter: Transform Your Mindset by Embracing Discomfort and Taking Control

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Midweek Motivation

Tip 1: Transform Your Thinking with 360° Journaling

(Sunday’s tip: Transform Discomfort into Curious Discovery)

Try this powerful journaling practice after your meditation or yoga practice. Reflect on when you felt aversion (any resistance to what you were doing or thoughts about things you weren’t looking forward to) on the yoga mat or in meditation.

Write from three perspectives about any resistance you felt:

1. The Critic: Express your honest feelings about what's bothering you

2. The Observer: Describe the situation without emotion, like a scientist

3. The Friend: Write with kindness, as if supporting a close friend

For example:
Critic: "I hate how this pose feels in my hips."
Observer: "There is tightness in my hips in this pose. "
Friend: "It's okay to feel tightness. Breathe into it. You're gently loosening that block."

Shifting our mental view allows us to reinvent how we relate to challenges by forcing us to see them from different perspectives.

Tip 2: Master Your Emotions with R.A.I.N.

(Sunday’s tip: Make Better Choices by Understanding What You Can (and Can't) Change)

When difficult emotions arise, use this simple framework to process them:

R - Recognize what you're feeling
A - Allow the emotion to be there
I - Investigate where you feel it in your body
N - Nurture yourself with understanding

Try this: Next time you feel stressed or overwhelmed, pause and walk through these steps. Notice how each step helps you feel more centered and calm.

For more insight, try our “Favorite Find” meditation below where Tara Brach utilizes this framework to help with healing shame.

Something Interesting

This week we tried our first 'Think Day' as mentioned by Sahil Bloom in his newsletter - Curiosity Chronicle.

We found it helpful and thought you might too. Here's how he explains it:

"The Think Day is a single day each month where you disconnect from your day-to-day professional responsibilities and spend a few hours thinking on bigger picture topics and questions. There are five question prompts you can use to guide your process."

The core of it comes down to asking 5 powerful questions each month to check you are on the right path:

1. If I repeated my current typical day for one hundred days, would my life be better or worse?

2. If someone observed my actions for a week, what would they say my priorities are?

3. If I were the main character in a movie of my life, what would the audience be screaming at me to do right now?

4. Am I hunting antelope or chasing field mice?

5. What are my strongest beliefs and what would it take for me to change my mind on them?

You can find the full details here: https://www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/a-monthly-ritual-that-changed-my-life

Thanks for reading!

With gratitude,

MindfulMornings

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