SELF - DEVELOPMENT
5 ways to keep calm and carry on
Do you want more abundance? Start with cultivating habits that promote internal peace and you will open the door for abundance to show up in your life.
by Julie Ann Cairns
like: stress, running late and having to rush around, traffic, road rage, work deadlines, missing your train, someone you don’t even know being rude to you, or arguments. Not to mention watching violence on TV, playing violent video games, or even some sports. You can’t avoid all of these things
in life (nor may you want to), so some active counter-balancing is key. Take steps to quieten down your fears, to stop feeding them, to create a sense of calm, and then abundance and opportunities can start to flow.
MORE PEACE = MORE ABUNDANCE I normally write about abundance. That’s kind of my main topic of expertise, but today I sat down at my desk and all I wanted to write about was peace. Then it struck me: peace and
abundance are very strongly linked. Because the more abundance we create in our lives the more we experience freedom, and there’s less fear and more peace. Only, that’s not the direction of the
causality. What? Really, that’s not the way it goes, at
least not initially. It’s not that more abundance leads
to less fear and more peace; it’s that actively creating the conditions and cultivating the habits that reduce and temper our fear response and promote internal peace are the very things that open the door for more abundance to show up in our lives.
BATTLING OUR EVOLUTIONARY WIRING Here’s the thing: we’re battling our evolutionary wiring here. As human beings we’re wired to be alert to danger. Our nervous systems, our adrenals,
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The more abundance we create in our lives the more we experience freedom, and there’s less fear and more peace.
and the information filtering systems in our brains all go into a hyper alert and vigilant state very easily in the presence of danger – both real and imaginary. In fact, our bodies don’t really know the difference between real and imaginary danger. The chemical response is pretty much the same either way. When we live in this hyper-vigilant
fear state, we get a kind of tunnel vision. We are really alert to danger, but not so much to opportunity. That’s why living this way can cut us off from being able to create abundance in our lives. We just can’t see how. What can trigger our evolutionary
fear circuitry? Lots of things that we come across every day that are not necessarily life or death situations
THE UPWARD SPIRAL WE WANT TO BE ON Once that happens, we get on a positive feedback loop where less fear leads to more abundance. That abundance then further reduces our fears and financial insecurities, opening the door to an even greater level of abundance and opportunities, and so on. That’s the kind of upward spiral
we want to be on. And it all starts by disconnecting from fear and cultivating some peace. The big mistake a lot of us make is
to expect we’ll find peace AFTER we’ve sorted everything else out. After we’ve achieved a state of abundance, freedom, and choice. Nope. Peace is the state of mind, the initial condition if you like, that allows all the other good stuff to flow. Five tips for a peaceful state of mind So how can we cultivate a peaceful state of mind? These are my top tips:
1
Do a negativity detox. Really try to reduce the amount of negative
news, violent shows, or video games you consume. It affects you more than you know (it actually changes your brain wiring and activates your brain’s fear circuitry). Also, dial down the number of interactions you have with people who love to talk about fearful, negative things. Send them love and be kind, but set some healthy boundaries. Without boundaries, there’s no peace.
2
Meditate. Even just a few minutes a day can make a huge difference.
Try an app called Headspace if you don’t know where to start.
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