Let's All Flourish (L.A.F.)

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with life and steps we need or want to take to make improvements. In this journal prompt - choose one action you can take right now.

Feeling in a low mood or low energy? Stand up! Plant your feet squarely under you, inhale deeply as you reach your arms to the sky, biceps frame your ears, open your mouth and let out an audible exhale as you send your arms wide, hinge at the waist and fold towards the Earth. Inhale as you rise tall once again, fingers reaching for the sun. Loud open mouth exhale as you fold in half. Continue with...

And how to manage them. Journal prompt included

Allowing adequate rest is critical to physical, mental and emotional well being. Do you enjoy rest? Come in explore, reflect and rest.

Often when we’re stressed we focus on the mental and emotional manifestations. In this session we reflect on our physical body language and how our emotions manifest through movement.

We may often hear negative thoughts in our head. Maybe they play constantly. Maybe they play in specific situations. Are these negative thoughts true? Most likely not. I invite you to explore instead all the wonderfulness of you!

Taking 3 collective breaths has an ability when practiced consistently to calm the mind and body. Sometimes when a little more is needed, I find pressure between my palms as they press against each other and draw the pressure specifically into fingertips as hands lift overhead. This localized pressure can bring a centering focus to even the wildest moments. Try it!

Do you ever just sit still and breathe. No device. No book. Nothing to occupy you except your breath. Join us for 2 1/2 minutes of quiet stillness to calm your mind and nervous system.

Sometimes we hear the same stories or thoughts in our head. We replay conversations that do not serve us. How do we move through while acknowledging feelings and thoughts? Join me outside on the playground. Let’s turn the page together.

Write, type or record. What tools are you employing consistently?

At times we may feel low or insecure. Stressed or frustrated. Using our breath to slow us down and bring us back to what really matters provides us an anchor.

Overwhelm is real. Burnout is common. Where do you turn? Find your breath. Keep moving.

It’s helpful to get into nature to relieve stress. Go for a walk outside, what do you see? What do you hear? If you have time and it’s accessible, taking a walk in nature can be just what you need to reset and refresh. In the meantime, please enjoy the soothing sounds of a babbling brook and accompanying birds at Hidden Falls in Auburn.

In this visualization, imagine your success and align your efforts to get you there! Focus is your key.

Looking to just stop? To pause the rush of emotions, the racing thoughts, and rapid heart beats? Reclaim your breath. Reclaim your thoughts. Reclaim your focus.

In this session, to further our self-awareness journey, we practice a loving kindness meditation. This is a practice designed to help us overcome anger, hate, and bitterness towards others , as we cultivate self-love. All of which, with consistent practice can help us to relieve the stress of emotions that are not serving us - which also detracts from our focus. Let me know how this lands for you.

Spiraling? Just feeling off or out of balance? Bring yourself to the present with a gentle and focused breathing exercise. When could you use such a practice?

Many of us move with stress and tension aboard like it’s a necessary backpack . Can you imagine moving without it? Can you imagine releasing stress and setting it free?

Not into journaling? I get it. Willing to try?

It’s common to feel run over by our day, our work, our stress. And then whatever follows the hit and run, well sometimes it can feel like whatever it was backed up and ran over us again! Let’s stop that, yeah? To accompany our intention setting this week, I invite you to explore RAD. Recognize a stressful situation, acknowledge it, and decide what you will do next.

We may want to relieve stress. We may want to go to Africa. We may wish we had more time in the day. The truth is, it all is not possible unless you are intentional with your actions to make it happen. Lucky stress relief? Ehhhhhh. Let’s try this first!

Are you stressed? Tapped for time? Yeah - I get it! Take two minutes to create time for yourself. Two minutes to release stress, cultivate focus and create time!

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