How to Achieve Inner Peace and Happiness

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Dr. Prianca discusses her post-partum journey as a first time mom and the impact of mindfulness meditation.

While we are alive, we can count on it to be there. The breath serves as our anchor to stabilize us. When we connect to it we connect to our body and get out of our heads.

You may exhale to signify the beginning of an arduous task. You probably take a long breath, sighing, when you feel overwhelmed or fatigued and afterward, may feel a sense of relief. It may fail you when it halts upon the reception of shocking news. The sudden passing of a relative drives the breath away momentarily. You soon realize it returns without even a millisecond of thought to go searching for it.

It's always there. So we can use it to our advantage. The breath centers you if you focus on it when feeling sad, angry, lost, anxious, depressed, or lonely. Mindfulness meditation allows the meditator to focus on the present moment, get distance from thoughts and feelings, instead of getting carried away with them or becoming one with them. The breath is the key piece of this practice.

The power of the breath is paramount not only in our survival, but our thriving too!

Practicing mindfulness can center us, ground us, stop us from spinning out in our brains get distance from our thoughts and feelings and ultimately be in the present moment too.

I use it as my anchor throughout the day to save my brain from fatiguing. I also use it when I’m hugging my kids. I focus on my breath and keep myself in the present moment instead of allowing my mind to wander to my to-do list.

Pay attention to what I’m discussing today and apply it because noticing our breath is something we can do that is effective in our mental health and FREE!

It’s always there as long as we are alive

It is our anchor

We can use it to stabilize ourselves, ground ourselves

Get out of our heads and into our bodies

We begin to get in the habit of tuning in, we can use it to help us create peace every day.

How to focus on your breath:

Counting breaths

Noticing rising and falling

Observing length of breath

Noticing breath, noticing thoughts, not getting sucked in, then going back to the breath

Headspace starter is how I learned to sit and meditate; then I began using it throughout the day.

Situations in which you can use the breath:

First thing in the morning, last thing at night

When you’re stressed

When you want to take in any given moment

Enrollment is open for my group coaching program for professional moms who are mentally exhausted in survival mode and want to enjoy the life they’ve worked so hard for. Book a call priancanaikmdcoaching.as.me and apply to work with me. I would love to talk to you the link is in the show notes.