Finding Your Calm
When life gets busy, it’s essential to find your calm. Practicing relaxation and creating moments of quiet is vital for both your physical and emotional health. Relaxation slows the heart rate, lowers blood pressure, and relieves tension. It also supports healthy digestion—when we’re relaxed, our bodies absorb nutrients more efficiently, strengthening our immune system and helping us fight disease and infection.
Being relaxed helps ease stress, anxiety, and depression, and can improve sleep. To relax means to calm the mind, the body, or both. True relaxation quiets your thoughts and invites a sense of peace and stillness.
Here are some simple ways to invite calm into your day:
Take a walk outside.
Turn off all screens.
Write your thoughts on paper.
Walk barefoot on the grass.
Take ten deep breaths.
Light a candle and sit in silence.
Look up at the sky and think of all you’re grateful for.
De-clutter one small space in your home.
Turn your face toward the sun, even for just five minutes.
As a Certified Aromatherapist as well as a Life + Soul Coach, I often turn to essential oils to enhance relaxation. Lavender is one of the best-known calming oils, but others such as Rose, Chamomile, Frankincense, Bergamot, and Jasmine are also deeply soothing. Try adding a few drops to a palmful of your favorite lotion to enjoy their benefits.
Personally, I require a lot of calm in my life. Calm relaxes and rejuvenates me. It helps me stay present, grounded, and more joyful—and it allows me to be a better coach and a happier person. When life feels full, take time to find your own little moments of calm.
Corie Mustoe is a Certified Life and Soul Coach with CoachCorie.com. She is passionate about helping others intentionally create healthy, happy, and purpose-driven lives. Corie offers private virtual coaching and wellness retreats, guiding from an intuitive and caring space grounded in well-being, mindfulness, self-love, and gratitude.
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