So how do you stay zen? The first step is to appreciate that we all feel stress. It’s probably fair to say that we all want to lead happier, more content, more fulfilled lives and that some inner peace is favourable to eternal worry, distress, and anxiety. Stay Zen Most of us find a way to cope with the struggles, complexities, and confusions of life, but that doesn’t mean we are happy coping, some days we feel like we can just about ‘get through’. “If your mind is not at peace, you cannot find it anywhere else in the world.” - Debasish Mridha I began to allow myself space again to breathe, and be still, and then to move my tired body in a way where it started to once again feel more alive.” I (we) stopped drinking, eating meat, I started a new business called ZenMuma, doing something that inspired me – teaching other women how to teach the specialised yoga and Hypnobirthing which I had so loved teaching over the last decade, and my yoga practise slowly started to come back. Then slowly in September things started to change, they had to. During the summer the only way yoga helped is reminding me that I am allowed to have these feelings, and to accept and be in these emotions without judgement. It’s my mental fitness as well as my physical fitness of choice. Over the years I have found yoga, mindfulness and meditation to save me. These can be from over demanding things of myself, a fear of getting things wrong, stress from high powered executive jobs, or bouts of post-natal confusion. Jackie speaks on life following the death of her Father-in-law in the early summer of 2017: “Over my lifetime I have had periods of anxiety and insomnia.
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