What is Well-Being?
In order to tell you the steps to well-being, we have to agree on what well-being is.
So, let’s say well-being is:
Feeling good in your body, and having a basically quiet and peaceful mind.
Why You Don’t Have a Sense of Well-Being
It’s actually really complicated, but for clarity, I’m going to say there are 2 main reasons you don’t have a sense of well-being.
1. BREATHING
Chronically breathing through your mouth and not through your nose has been shown to increase anxiety. Unless you are physically exerting yourself, you should always be breathing through your nose. Patrick McKeown of Oxygen Advantage provides excellent guidance on nasal breathing.
2. NEGATIVE RUMINATIONS
When you have a head full of ideas about who and how you “should” be that you may or may not be aware of, you are going to talk trash to yourself all the time. Your mind is going to spin all the time as it tries to find ways to pacify you from the pain of the self-hatred you feel. Contact me to work on this.
4 Simple Steps
Given our definition, it’s stands to reason that if you want to have a sense of well-being, then you’re going to have to figure out how to feel good in your body and still your mind.
Luckily for you, there are 4 specific things you can do for that.
WARNING: These things are simple. But, they are not necessarily easy. And they are going to take work.
1. Bioenergetic Grounding Pose
2. Expansive Breathing
3. Pounding
4. Dan Siegel’s Wheel of Awareness
Click the links above to each of these activities. There you will find in-depth explanations of them.
