A visualisation technique to help you find calm even when it's stormy
Day 4 Of Your January Reset Countdown
Hello!
Welcome to day 4 of your 10-day January Reset emails from me, each of which includes either a blog, a freebie, a challenge, or a competition to win something good for your mental health!
Today I want to give you something else and that is ANOTHER FREE MINDFULNESS AUDIO.
This audio will help you visualise your mind as being like the sky, and your thoughts and feelings like the weather.
Why?
We all know that the sky is not the same as the weather. It contains the weather, will not be destroyed by storms, and behind every cloud, there is always the sun waiting to come out.
Using this metaphor for our internal worlds is helpful as… many of us think of our thoughts and feelings, as ‘us’. We feel as though we are being dragged around and potentially overwhelmed by every emotion we have. We forget that every feeling will pass if we let it (some taking longer than others obviously), and that calm can be restored.
By visualising our mind as the sky and our thoughts and feelings as the weather, we can build distance between ourselves and our internal noise, we can observe even the harshest emotional storm knowing that this too shall pass and it isn’t who we are at our core.
Ready to practice? Here you go…
In tomorrow’s email I will be sharing 5 Steps To Transform Your Habits.
Dr Soph x
(Aka Dr Sophie Mort).
P.S. These 10 days of emails are a different tone to the essays that will follow in THE GREY ZONE as these focus on the new year, and what you need to start the year with intention.
After these 10 days are over, THE GREY ZONE will focus on the nitty-gritty and nuance of mental health, answering questions such as: “Why, when we have more access to psychological information than ever, do people seem to be getting more distressed and not less?”, “Have we taken the mental health discussion too far?”, “Is it really true that we are good enough as we are?”, “Can self-compassion ever backfire?”.
P.P.S. keep these emails so that you can return to them any time you wish in the future. You don't have to do everything I suggest every day but you can keep them and try them when you have time in the future.