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8 ways to morph stress into spring and bounce!

Spring is at its most bountiful, here in the UK. My garden is full of daffodils, tulips, hyacinth, primroses and heather! In the newly weeded ground my newly planted seeds are already showing the teeny green sprouts which will yield salad crops, beans and peas – a total delight. In the fields the lambs are actually gamboling and the abundance of colours of the fresh leaves is amazing.

Chi in spring, with spring!

Chi in spring, with spring!

 

So, what about you? Do you feel spring like? Do you want to sing for joy as you start your day? Are you up for a gambol across a meadow?

Are you aware that it is almost impossible to hold opposing thoughts in your brain? If you are angry can you feel peaceful at the same time? Therefore by concentrating on positive actions, thoughts, emotions and behaviours you will push the negative, acid creating ones out of your brain. And there is yet another benefit, when you are feeling basically good and happy you can positively affect the mirror neurons of those around you. Have you noticed that some people can ‘lighten’ the room as they enter (and others can do the opposite)? Care of how create your inner ‘soup’ either may build resilience and strength or may, over years compound to very negative health results.  YOU are in control, start with these 8 simple steps and continue to perform your Mind Chi 8 minute routine every day.

Here are 8 ways to morph your stress  and increase your spring, bounce and joy of life!

  1. Have a luxurious stretch before you hop out of bed.
  2. Put your alarm on music NOT the news. (Set it at 5 minutes past the hour.)
  3. When you first see yourself in the mirror, give yourself a big smile.
  4. Wear some funny, slinky or different underwear or socks. (Be happy all under!)
  5. Only listen/watch the news AFTER your day has well started (if you must!)
  6. Make your first comment to family, friends or workers a positive one with a smile.
  7. Watch out for and mentally (or out loud) comment on nice things you see.
  8. Perform your Mind Chi Basic 8 minute routine and every day will have a spring to it!

Do you have joy at work? Yes! With your Mind Chi stress-free way.

Joy?  Have you given any thought to having joy at work?! (Or joy in life in general?) 

Are you like many I ask, whose response often is that they feel they don’t deserve joy, my reply is, “Oh yes you DO!’ And furthermore, it is a motivating, exciting and energising factor, well worthwhile.
But does any busy executive really have a shot at finding joy on the job? You usually think of high-level professionals as attaining a certain level of achievement-related satisfaction and getting external rewards such as raises and promotions. Rarely, if ever, is their happiness given serious consideration. Joy certainly isn’t in the core curriculum for most MBA programs.

Achieving joy at work is not only possible; it’s a necessity. I’ve come to appreciate that happiness on the job is a leading indicator of an individual’s ability to sustain high levels of passion, performance, and productivity over the long run. If you can uncover your true gifts and find work that makes regular use of them, you’ve fulfilled your responsibility to use them wisely and you’ve optimized your chances to claim your right to enjoy the process.

You can’t always control what assignments you accept at work. But regardless of your position, the choice you make about how you approach our work is up to you. Consider examining your business priorities — the goals you’ve promised to meet — then conducting a Time and Emotion Study to see how you’ve spent your time over the past few months. How well has your use of time fit with your objectives? Follow that up by making a task map and examining how well your responsibilities are aligned with your talents. If the fit isn’t as close as you would like, try talking to your colleagues to see what you can do as a team to reassign some responsibilities.

The simple Mind Chi Basic 8 minute routine will help you to move towards joy on a daily basis.

Each step is designed to increase your awareness of how you are currently experiencing the

Heading towards JOY!

Heading towards JOY!

world and to   DO something about it immediately – if necessary.  Step 3, being real, looks at the incidences over the past 24 hours that you wish you had handled differently, ONLY so you can pull the lessons of what you wish you had done, ready for next time. Step 4 has you remember all your successes, large and small, maybe only you know that it took a lot of effort to complete over the past 24 hours, and you give yourself a ‘success’ token.  This helps to build your self-confidence, crucial to a good joy reading! Step 7 asks you to plan 24 hours ahead, how do you need to BE to do your activities in the best way. Prepare to incorporate as much joy as possible. The goal is to keep moving the dial on your meter closer to joy. It’s your right.

 

(This blog was inspired by  a blog by Allison Rimm, who  is an educator, consultant, and executive coach. She is the former senior vice president for Strategic Planning and Information Management at Massachusetts General Hospital. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/02/joy_at_work_its_your_right.html)