Welcome to day six.
So in this session,
We'll discuss time management and how to help ensure you can carve out enough time for your daily practice.
So life can be incredibly busy,
And we can often find ourselves being pulled in all kinds of directions as we undertake our various roles and responsibilities each day.
It's natural,
It's a part of life.
As a result,
We may find ourselves feeling tired,
Burnt out,
Stressed,
Anxious,
Depleted,
Overwhelmed,
Lacking energy,
Having trouble sleeping,
Physical symptoms,
And so on.
So no matter how busy we may get,
We cannot underestimate the importance of self-care and how this permeates into the rest of our existence and literally ripples out as an energetic frequency to the people that we cross paths with during our days.
For example,
If we're exhausted,
But we're pushing on in our work,
We can miss attention to detail,
Our tone to our client or colleague can become short.
People notice this and people feel this.
Or if we're in the presence of our family or friends,
If we're worn out yet pushing on,
We can become irritable,
Short in our tone,
Frustrated,
Too worn out to have meaningful dialogue.
We can be upset,
Angry,
And so on.
It can really impact our relationships in so many different ways.
Whereas think about how we show up in our day to day lives when we are well rested,
When we've had enough personal space,
We've had time to ourselves,
We've had time to do the activities we absolutely love and that help us to feel recharged.
In those instances,
It radiates out of our mind body.
It's heard in our tone of voice.
It's felt and seen in the way we show up physically.
It's noticed in our communications and our correspondence with others.
We're literally sending out an energetic imprint into the world with every action we take.
And a daily routine of self-care helps us to keep this energetic imprint high and execute tasks at a more optimum level.
There's a wonderful saying,
You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every day,
Unless you're too busy,
Then you should sit for an hour.
So what this means is that the busier we are typically the more time our mind body will require to unwind.
I personally can relate to this very much.
I remind myself of this often.
I run two businesses.
I'm a mother,
A wife,
I have hobbies and I study and I am regularly out and about.
I want to see family and friends in that time as well.
I've found myself at times in the past thinking I just don't have the time to meditate,
To breathe or to get outside.
However,
There is another saying,
If you do not make time for your wellness,
You may be forced to make time for your illness.
Our mind body will let us know through various symptoms when we're not taking care of it enough.
And I know firsthand exactly what that means,
Having navigated my own health speed bump and related path of restoring balance over the past several years.
So now I know more than ever that self-care is an absolute priority to ensure that we show up to the various roles that we undertake each day in the best possible way.
Some suggestions that can assist you to carve out blocks of minutes and time each day for self-care,
The 72-20 method.
So this is a method taught by one of my own teachers,
Tom Cronin.
So in a 24 hour period,
We have 72 windows of time that are 20 minutes long.
When we view each day like this,
It can help us to efficiently allocate time.
Even by carving out just one,
Two or a few of these 20 minute windows,
We can ensure self-care and daily practices are maintained even during the busiest times.
Another suggestion to consider is integration of practices like meditation,
Grounding or breathing consciously into each day in times when we are otherwise mentally idle.
An example of that might be when we're driving,
When we're sitting in a waiting room for an appointment while we wait for the jug to boil in the kitchen,
Briefly at the end of our lunch break before returning to the office or our desk for those few remaining minutes just before our child wakes up,
Right before a meeting with a client,
Sitting in the car just before we grab the kids from the school or daycare.
You might be surprised just how many opportunities we can capture each day to inject a few mindful minutes to breathe consciously and to ground into our body or the present moment,
To even have a quick meditation.
I do it all the time.
And a final idea is to replace existing less constructive activities with a few mindful minutes.
So examples of that might look like,
Is there anything that you're currently doing that could be replaced with one or several of these practices?
So could you reduce time on social media by 10 minutes,
5 minutes?
Could you use the time spent on public transport to go within and meditate or practice grounding?
Could you spend less time on the phone,
Talking or texting?
Could you switch off the latest reality television program a tiny little bit earlier?
Could you rise 10 to 20 minutes earlier each day?
So often when we review the activities that we currently participate in,
We can notice that at least a few of them may be somewhat mindless or a mental distraction and could be replaced with some simple daily practices that help us to reduce stress,
Alkalize and revitalize the body,
Improve our sleep,
Heighten our energetic vibration,
Increase our vagal tone,
Regulate emotions,
Reduce inflammation and so on.
We always have a choice as to how we allocate the time in our day and the types of activities that we choose to prioritize.
So in week three,
Phase three,
We'll dive a bit deeper and go through how to stay motivated and define our why.
So your purpose in order to maintain an ongoing daily self-care practice for the longer term.
Next up,
We're going to move into a final root chakra visualization meditation to really anchor into our mind body and ensure we're ready to move into phase two of the program,
Which is the clearing phase.
