One of the best things you can do to master your life challenges and develop your life for greater fulfilment and Inner Wellness is to cultivate your Centre. Your Centre is a place of wisdom, power, and compassion, where you are at your most resourceful and most your self. You reach it by setting an intention to do so and taking your attention back from your thoughts with the help of some anchoring techniques. The more you’re in your Centre, the less vulnerable you’ll be to running on autopilot and being affected by reactive patterns, cognitive distortions and biases, and debilitating states. All of these can affect your decision-making and sabotage your potential for success and wellness.
Examples of How Your Thinking is Affected
The following are some common examples of the reactive patterns, cognitive distortions, cognitive biases, and debilitating states that can affect your decision-making and your potential for success and wellness. They are more likely to occur when you aren’t centred.
- Reactive patterns: avoidance behaviour; putting yourself down; carrying resentment; being perfectionist; being addicted to something; overthinking and ruminating.
- Cognitive distortions: jumping to conclusions; overgeneralising; selective thinking; black-and-white thinking; magnification; minimisation.
- Cognitive biases: attentional bias (paying attention to only some details, for example what you fear the most); belief bias (making a decision based on how believable a conclusion is to you); confirmation bias (favouring information that supports your existing beliefs); pessimism bias (being overly negative about something); optimism bias (being overly positive about something).
- Debilitating states: anxiety; depression; guilt; shame; apathy; resentment.
How Centred Are You?
Take a moment to consider how centred you are at this moment, and how your current position in life reflects this. Do you experience daily gratitude, and find joy and compassion in your heart? Does your health reflect the vitality of your spirit? Do your goals get consistently met in the many areas of your life as you evolve in your self-development? Are you at peace and do you feel fulfilled? Are your decisions frequently the best ones? Pay attention to these details as they are a barometer of your Inner Wellness.
Try This Simple Centring Technique
Staying centred is a key part of the wisdom I teach in my Inner Wellness Sessions. To give you a taste of one of the techniques, try this now:
- Take a moment to relax and bring your attention back from the endless thoughts and preoccupations of the mind and place it on your observer self which exists at the centre of your being. If your attention gets distracted, that’s fine, just bring it gently back to your observer self.
- Focus on your breath as you breathe from this Centre and come to know that you’re not your thoughts, not your emotions, but a centre of pure being and awareness.
Establish an Effective Inner Wellness Strategy
To develop yourself effectively, make the best decisions, and master your life challenges, an Inner Wellness Strategy is required that strengthens your Centre and improves your Inner Wellness with consistent, measurable results.
This strategy needs to involve your mind, body, and spirit, and should harness the power of your true self. Otherwise you won’t be drawing upon your full resourcefulness or addressing your full needs. Involving your True Self in your development is critical to your wellness as its suppression is implicated in so many issues.
Learn more about my Inner Wellness Strategy and how you can use it to take yourself forward in your self-development and inner wellness. To discover how this Inner Wellness Strategy can benefit you, book a Guidance Call with me and in this call you’ll also:
- Get clear about your current situation, future direction, and life potential.
- Identify the real blocks that hold you back, and their root cause.
- Discover how to clear these blocks and align to the magic of your True Self.
