You may be feeling

Discombobulated

Discombobulated articulates how many feel at the moment in such challenging times. We are constantly being asked to adjust to so many challenges, changes, uncertainties and values collisions.

Our brains usually automate so many daily tasks yet at the moment we have to make new decisions, adjustments daily, which takes up a lot of energy that we would normally use for other tasks. So if you are feeling exhausted and overwhelmed it is normal!

Our brains usually automate so many daily tasks yet at the moment we have to make new decisions, adjustments daily, which takes up a lot of energy that we would normally use for other tasks. So if you are feeling exhausted and overwhelmed it is normal!

How do you bring yourself back from being discombobulated?

There are a few easy steps:

1.Take time out for you to simply be quiet, do nothing, go to bed early, nature bathe away from screens. Even in small moments on way to work tune in and turn off the noise for awhile.

2. Meditation and yoga are proven ways of regulating our nervous systems. Or exercise. What is your favourite. Even if you don’t feel like it ritualise exercise where possible to help oxygenate your body and brain.

3. Surrender to the feeling (simply let it have you, not with the mind but the whole being. Resistance locks a feeling in!

4. Challenge stressful thoughts. Things have changed enormously and some of us find change difficult. Find out where you are arguing with reality and ask yourself: What would someone believe in order to experience this feeling, fear, rage, anxiety? Write it down and inquire into it. Is it true? Can I absolutely know it is true, in my heart of hearts? How do I react when I think this thought? How do I treat myself, others, life, my body when I think this thought? Who would I be without this thought? Turn it around to the Opposite, then turnaround again to “it is only my thinking that thinks… Then turn it around again to how I treat the other in the way I judge them for treating me. Freedom from arguing with reality means you can meet reality with more choices, and compassion for self and others.

5. Find that part in you that is distressed and attend to that part, which is often a younger, unintegrated you. Hold that you, talk with it, acknowledge that their feelings are correct and invite them into working with you in present day as part of your inner team. Give them a hug and create whilst creating a little sanctuary in you, with an elder, wise self or ancestors to support you. These inner sanctuaries get us through.

Reprinted with permission from The Awakening Group Pty Ltd.

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