I hope this moment finds you well. With each week that passes, there are new reasons to feel unsettled. There are also new reasons to feel deep gratitude. If you find yourself feeling stuck in uncertainty or overwhelm and you’re ready to move through, you will enjoy this week’s feature.
In this Week’s Featured Article (it's also posted below): The Value in Starting from Where You are, I share 7 simple ways to start from where you are when you are feeling stuck and overwhelmed. If you’d rather view/listen to this week’s feature, you can access that by going to this week's Happiness Video (also posted below).
However the week unfolds Friend, may you see how amazing you are as you are, and love the life you are in.
Helpful resources to enhance well-being and create lasting healthy habits.
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As one of Thrive Global’s Editors-at-large and contributing writers, I’m grateful to share some of the habits and small steps I take to feel my best along with the wonderful Thrive community. In this short piece, ‘10 Unexpected Ways to Boost Productivity and Reduce Stress’, we share some of the ways we boost productivity and stress less about to-do lists.
In today’s world, our sense of certainty about many things has been lost. What does feel certain, is the cloud of uncertainty that hovers over the moments up ahead.
Sure, the sun still rises and sets. The birds still sing their song. We can settle in, knowing winter storms are sure to come around before long.
But the impulse to wonder about tomorrow, begs the question: will this uncertainty ever end? No matter how we ask, this impossible query only robs us of the comfort and bliss in the moments we are in.
If what we truly long for is a sense of certainty about our world, it’s probably best to ease up on circling around this question again and again. Nobody knows what’s around the bend. It’s silly to imagine that we ever thought we did.
Each of us can find our own source of comfort and strength from within. It’s simply a matter of starting from this moment right now that you’re in.
Here are 7 simple ways to start from where you are:
1. Start from where you are: when your thoughts and worries feel all jumbled in your mind, take 3 slow, deep breaths in and out. Breathe in and slowly out. Inhale in, exhale out.
2. Start from where you are: when you feel anxious and it’s challenging to let go, look around you and find 3 things you can see, 3 things you can touch, 3 things you can hear, and 3 things you can smell.
3. Start from where you are: when you start to feel an uncomfortable emotion, and your urge is to make it go away by distracting yourself with technology. See what shifts if you allow yourself to sit for a few minutes in your discomfort. See what your emotion might be trying to teach you. It’s okay to feel your feelings. You are not your feelings. You are so much more.
