Distance less travelled...
Awakening/Re-engineering
Mind, Body and Spirit
Taking Care of You
We will be talking about
Positive Psychology
What does it feel like to be running empty?
When you are stressed?
Awareness leads to Acceptance
Awareness Levels
Sensations
(Body)
Feelings
(Emotions)
Thoughts
(Mind)
Exercise
In Stressful situation , are you aware of yourBody sensations?Thoughts?Feelings/Emotions? Sensations
(Body)
Feelings
(Emotions)
Thoughts
(Mind)
Sensations
(Body)
Feelings
(Emotions)
Thoughts
(Mind)
Usually Not Your response is generally what you have heard and read about people’s reaction in stressful situations
Sensations, Thoughts and Feelings in Stressful situations are
for sure NOT pleasant.
Acceptance is key to CHANGE
We Respond when we are AWARE!
We Fight when we REACT!
We Flight when we REACT!
We Freeze when we REACT!
Respond - React
Awareness FightFlightFreeze
External Stressors
Internal Stressors
Our REACTION to stressful situations…
Reacting is negative way of coping
with the situation
Responding is positive way of coping
with the situation
4 Dimensions of our being!
Physical Mental
Spiritual Social
You
Environment
Culture
Exercise
Which dimension bothers you the MOST?
Are you doing something in that regards?
ACCEPT yourself the way you are!
Being called WEIRED
Is like Being
Called Limited Edition.
Meaning you’re something
People don’t see that often.
YOU ARE SPECIAL
Nobody is SUPERIOR
Nobody is INFERIOR, and
Nobody is EQUAL either.
People are simply UNIQUE,
INCOMPARABLE.
You Are You,
I am I.
Increase the level of your Happiness
Happiness is about Positive Emotions
Play
We don’t stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.
Attitude for Gratitude
Practice Forgiveness
Values - Faith & Beliefs
Looks without seeing
Listens without hearing
Touches without feeling
Eats without tasting
Moves without physical awareness
Inhales without awareness of odour or
fragrance
Talks without thinking
When we are not living our values we feel
stressed. We can’t do everything we value all
the time, but we can do at least one small
thing that we value at a time.
TRY
It is not that difficult
Practice MINDFULNESS
STOP running WILD
Living in the Present
Mindfulness is purposefully being
Aware of your THOUGHTS…….?
Mindfulness is purposefully being
Aware of our THOUGHTS and REACTIONS
Mindfulness is
purposefully being
Aware of your
THOUGHTS and
REACTIONS
Without being
judgmental
MINDFULNESSSTOP Looking
START Seeing
MINDFULNESSSTOP Hearing
START Listening
MINDFULNESSSTART Feeling
STOP Touching
MINDFULNESSSTART Tasting
STOP Eating
MINDFULNESSSTART Thinking
STOP Talking
MINDFULNESSIncrease your
AWARENESS
Get out of
Auto-pilot mode
HEAD -Washing Machine of thoughts
Exercises for achieving Mindfulness
Exercises for achieving Mindfulness
S - STAY in the Moment (STOP)–
T - BREATHE (TAKE TIME) –
O - Look around (OBSERVE)
P - Move ahead (PROCEED)
STOP for a moment
Slow down.
Take a few deep breaths.
Observe yourself, your feelings.
Live in the moment.
BREATHE easy - Take time
Have Compassion for yourself
OBSERVE – Look around
Observe the unobserved
MOVE ahead - Walking Meditation
Walk, walk and walk….
Keep walking
Mindfulness creates awareness for
thoughts that stress us OUT
Stress is our reaction to a real or perceived threat that
disturbs our Physical, Emotional or Mental stability
Thoughts causing stress....
Jumping to conclusions
Taking it personally
Thoughts are NOT Feelings
Facts about Thoughts
60,000 thoughts/day
95% same ones day after day
80% of those are NEGATIVE
A - Automatic
N - Negative
T - Thoughts
Sensations
Thoughts Feelings
Facts about Thoughts
Thank You!
In the concluding session we will talking about
1. Positive Psychology
2. Wellness