Deep breathe in, wait for a while and breathe out. Feeling better? In this modern age, our lives become more stressful and anxious. Here you will find 5 practices to feel calm, relaxed, and happy.
Five exercises for mental peace:
1: Mindfulness
It means to live in present. To live in the present feel your environment is a much better way to be relaxed. Sit down at a peaceful place use your five senses to feel your environment. Here are the surrounding sounds. See how beautiful the world is? It will Step outside your thoughts.
2. Breathing Exercise
Breath with mindfulness. Breathe deeply and slowly focus on the way of air. How air guest into your lungs and how it brings out.
For this exercise inhale for 5 seconds fill your lungs with air in 5 seconds. Hold it for 2 seconds. And now exhale in 5 seconds. Do it for 5 minutes. It is a very helpful exercise to release stress and feel calmer mad relaxed.
3: visualization
Whenever you feel stressed, racing of thoughts in your mind, and anxious. Sit down at a Convenient pace. Think about your favorite and ideal place to relax. Make a clear picture in your mind. If possible, choose an image that you find calming, peaceful. Feel all the details about this place. What colors are there? Once you have a clear picture in your mind close your eyes. Take deep breaths inhaling with the nose and exhaling with the mouth. Observe your breathing keeping the picture in your mind. Imagine yourself at the place and enjoy. Until you feel all of your stress release.
4: counting exercise
Counting is the simplest exercise to release stress. When you feel anxious Count to 10 with your eyes closed. You may repeat this step and count to 20 if necessary. It will give you another point to focus on besides your thoughts.
5: Exercise frequently
Exercise is good for physical health but it also has an impact on our minds. Try non-competitive aerobic exercises, weight training, or yoga movements.
Choose your exercise wisely according to your age and physical fitness to gain more benefits out of this.
