anxiety – Plum Joyful https://plumjoyful.com Tue, 19 Jul 2016 22:02:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 https://i2.wp.com/plumjoyful.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-favorite.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 anxiety – Plum Joyful https://plumjoyful.com 32 32 101224769 Going from (A)nxiety to (Z)en: Practical tips to ease the anxious mind and body https://plumjoyful.com/from/ Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:15:20 +0000 http://plumjoyful.com/?p=960 Anxiety has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. It has been one of my toughest and most constant struggles. I am just wired that way. My natural default state is one of worry. I am a CHAMPION worrier. If they gave out medals for worrying, I would be the Michael Phelps of anxiety. It’s funny because most who meet me think I am the epitome of a calm and grounded person, but the truth is that I (like many who struggle with anxiety) am like the proverbial duck. Gliding smoothly on top of the water while my feet (or brain) are going a mile a minute. I have had to really work to understand and heal this in my life. An ongoing process by the way. But it’s something I have real understanding about, and I know how tough it can be. There have been tools I have learned along the way that have made a huge difference in the way my highly sensitive brain processes anxious thoughts and experiences. I wanted to share some of these things in the event they may help someone else. But first let’s start with understanding what […]

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]]> 960 Meditation: Easy ways to incorporate it into your life https://plumjoyful.com/meditation-easy-ways-incorporate-life/ https://plumjoyful.com/meditation-easy-ways-incorporate-life/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:02:13 +0000 http://plumjoyful.com/?p=527 Meditation is one of the best things we can do for our health and wellbeing, it’s easy and it’s free! And it will improve you life on EVERY level. So why don’t we do it on the regular? It’s a bit like exercise in that way. I know it will make me feel SO much better once I do it, but getting myself to actually do it seems to be the challenge. It’s so curious to me that the things that we know will have exponentially positive effects on our life, like meditation, exercise, and eating well, are sometimes the most challenging things to do on a regular basis. Why? I think part of the challenge are all the “ideas” we have of what meditation is. That you have to sage your space or burn some cleansing incense, chant a mantra given to you by some guru who is so enlightened their body no longer requires sleep or food for that matter, and sit for a minimum of twenty minutes in perfect stillness with a blank mind. Oy. That kind of pressure is enough to make anyone not want to do it. If you are a perfectionist like me, chances are […]

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