Soul Symmetry Journal: Create Your Unique Self-Care Ritual
Rituals are practices that connect us to our truth, heart and bring us back to our core centre. It’s important to relish into rituals that you enjoy so you fuel your mind, body and soul with love.
Let’s take a look at four self-care ritual practices:
Practice Grateful Living
One practice I highly recommend by, Benedictine monk brother David Steindl-Rast, talks about living with gratefulness daily. His philosophy is the cycle of gratitude, whereby we keep cycling through both parts of gratitude for optimum wellbeing, as follows:
Gratitude 1. Stand in and live in the great-fullness of life, with a lens of abundance, we have enough, overflowing with love.
Gratitude 2. the gratitude of thanks giving of life. Here you want to share, give and contribute.
Time For Stillness
Daily stillness is important to connect us back to our core centre. A tip is practice in the morning, because the morning sets us up for the rest of the day. You may want to get up 15 minutes beforehand and use the time wisely as your time to be, no distractions, simply with your breath, body anchoring yourself with calm and inner peace.
Connecting With Others
It’s known that special bonds are our soul food. Spend time with people that understand you, appreciate you just the way you’re. Connecting with others authentically, allows us to be ourselves safely and gives way for love, heart and growth to radiate, energising our wellbeing.
Positive Intentional Thoughts
Research has shown, that if we focus on positive emotions, it translates to positive thoughts for a mindset of potential and possibility. Dr. Barbara Fredrickson’s research says that, by maintaining a 3:1 positivity ratio of positive thoughts to negative emotions, creates a tipping point between languishing and flourishing.
The good news is, that by practicing positive emotions in a micro way, overtime it becomes our default.
The key positive emotions in her research are: gratitude, joy, inspiration, awe, love, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement.
Enjoy your unique rituals
With love, Ant xo
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