The Healing State of CALM: How To Find It & Keep It.
What is Calm?
Have you ever asked yourself what CALM is to you? You may be racing around going from one professional to another, reading book after book to calm and reset your nervous system… but do you really know what you are searching for? The definition of calm can be different for everyone.
What Is Your Definition Of Calm?
Calm Is A State Of Being
Calm is defined as a state of complete balance and harmony (homeostasis) where your mental and emotional condition is characterized by tranquility, peace of mind, and the absence of agitation or disturbance.
When You Find Calm
When you find calm, you reach an inner state in which you can experience a sense of being complete, wholeness. When you find calm there’s nothing else you need, and there’s nothing else that you want in that moment. You are in perfect balance and harmony with yourself… and everything around you.
Understanding the State of Calm
Calmness is then a state of mind… not of body. It’s the calm mind that relaxes and calms the physical body. So, when you search for programs offering nervous system reset… searching for calm… you are really seeking programs that calm and reset your emotional state and relieve mental stress.
CALM IS:
CALM ALLOWS YOU TO HEAL: When you are in a state of calm, you are engaging the Parasympathetic Nervous System, your body’s counter-balance to the fight-or-flight stress response. Your body relaxes, your mind settles and stops the continuous loop of random thoughts, even your breathing changes as your body relaxes and you settle into the state of calm.
CALM REMOVES BURDEN OF STRESS AND OVERWHELM: Being calm takes away the frenzy feeling of stress and being overwhelmed by the outside world. You rest in the comfort and balance you find within yourself.
CALM ELIMINATES BRAIN FOG: When you feel calm, you are able to think more clearly. You are naturally more alert and you are better able to remember the things you need to remember. when in a calm state of mind, any short-term memory issues caused by an anxious mind are relieved.
CALM ENHANCES YOUR SELF AWARENESS: When you allow yourself to experience calm, your mind and body enter into an alert state of awareness, both inward and outward.
CALM ALLOWS YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM TO REBOOT AND RECOVER: When you develop the repeated habit of experiencing calm, your entire body, mind and… nervous system change for the better. When you’re calm, you allow your nervous system to reboot and recover.
CALM ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE A DEEP INNER INTUITIVE CONNECTION: When you’re in a state of calm, you are better able to make a deep inner connection to yourself. An intuitive state of mind, where you become more aware of what is happening to you- and to your body.
CALM HELPS YOU FIND THE INNER PEACE YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR: Everyone wants contentment, happiness, love and joy in their life. Living in the state of calm, is comforting to the soul. Calm brings a state of happiness, when you’re calm and relaxed in your life you experience more joy.
Finding Calm & Making It A Habit
So, if calm is actually a state of mind that can have a calming effect on your physical body… where do you find YOUR CALM?
I’d love to answer that question for you… but only you know what helps you calm your mind. Is it quiet time alone? A massage or spa treatment? Getting absorbed in a good book or movie? How about listening to relaxingguided meditation recordings or APPS like Calm?
Take a moment, get quiet and really think about this question. Then make a list.
· What activities or therapies, help induce the state of calm for me?
· What activity or therapy could a do regularly to create a new behavior pattern or habit of being calm.
· What is my daily plan to make calm a habit
Brain Neuroplasticity
Once you find a favorite activity, and make calm a habit, you can receive the benefits without too much effort- brain neuroplasticity will do all the work for you. Repetition of your daily calm activity is key to engaging brain neuroplasticity.
For example; you choose to listen to a calming guided imagery recording with beautiful imagery of a beach and soothing ocean sounds before bedtime. You find you sleep better, awaken feeling more refreshed and energized.
Every time you repeat this behavior pattern you are forming a habit in the brain, as your mind and body relax, you are retraining them for calm relaxation. You’re giving your mind, body and nervous system a new blueprint of wellness.
Calm can give you yourself back! You can start feeling like yourself again… before illness, pain or stress overload.
Your mind and body know how to reach the state of balance and harmony… where you are already whole, complete and well.
FIND YOUR CALM with THE EMOTIONAL RESET BOOK AND COMPANION TOOLS by Carolann Cliche www.become-your-own-therapist.com
