Emotional balance is basic for personal well-being. Following some guidelines on a daily basis helps us maintain this state of peace, with ourselves and the world around us.
I would like to briefly show some of the keys to maintaining personal balance.
Mindfulness or full attention
When our mind is excessively busy with excessive thoughts, ideas, worries, tension and overflow appear and can end in stress. Mindfulness will help us connect with what is necessary for us at each moment, focusing on the here and now.
Cognitive management and control
We observe how we think because how we feel depends on it. Do we observe or interpret? Is what affects me what is really happening? Or how I have learned to interpret it? Can you have a different reading?
Many things in our life, we give a oversized value from three beliefs that, although socially shared, are not realistic:
I must do always things are good and deserve always the approval of others.
Can I stand being questioned or do I burn easily?
The others must always Treat me in a considerate, pleasant and fair manner.
Do I tolerate other people’s impertinence or do they anger me easily?
What is clear is that just as we bother (usually unintentionally), others will inevitably do the same to us.
Life should offer me things easily and without excessive effort.
One thing is that we wish and another thing is that need for our personal balance.
Attention to self-care
Proper time management
Adequate nutrition
Take care of the hours of sleep (around 8 hours advisable)
Exercise regularly
Do things that I like
Give to others what they expect to receive and be grateful for what they give us
Identify when we need to rest physically and/or mentally, taking a few moments for ourselves and/or doing some exercise to loosen the muscles.
Knowing how to complain, say what we don’t like, expressing it from the consequences it generates.
Avoid anger and much less stridency, because tones, shouting, hitting, insults,… are noise that prevent others from listening and putting themselves in our skin. On the contrary, he will become defensive.
