Stress, tension, anxiety – all of these can get your mind spinning with worrying about What If and prevent you from feeling rested and at peace.
Being able to calm these feelings and stop worrying will enable you to enjoy life in a new and more meaningful way.
While there are numerous ways to calm your overactive mind, you can begin with these 3:
1. Eliminate Clutter and Get Organized
When you look around your house are your counters full of things? Is there a stack, or stacks, of paper on the dining room table?
What about the coffee table or top of the entertainment center?
If your environment is messy it can be a distraction for your mind and cause anxiety. Take a day, or at least a few hours, and remove the clutter, organize it, and put away that which you actually use and need.
You can give away some things to your local non-profit or you can throw away the outdated and unusable things.
If a day is too much, take an hour and focus on just one area – the kitchen countertops, the dining room table, the overflowing shelves in a bedroom.
2. Change What You Eat
Soda, sugar, and processed foods all contribute to increasing tension and stress in the body.
Replace these foods with fruits, vegetables, water, and non-processed meats and you will quickly feel a difference in your body that will translate to reduced stress and anxiety and a calming of the mind.
Bonus: track your eating habits and moods with my free Mindful Eating App and uncover self-damaging eating habits.
3. Exercise On Purpose
A healthy body leads and supports a healthy mind. Physical activity keeps the body functioning correctly, gets the blood flowing, and contributes to a healthy brain.
Adding physical activity to your daily routine will help you to relax by releasing stress and tension. The activity doesn’t need to be strenuous.
Yoga, Pilates, walking, bicycling and others can do just as much for the body as intense workouts at a fitness center.