reclaim your mind

Knowing our strengths and weaknesses. These are the skills future generations will need in emotional intelligence to succeed. Enhancing their interpersonal skills, teamwork ability and communication skills can never start too early. Yoga, mindfulness and life coaching education can help adults and young adults develop these skills and give them tools for lifelong learning and emotional peace. Ease of connection with themselves and other people will then come and treating everyone with love, compassion and kindness. The calm man is not the man that is dull. Just perfectly unselfish. No thirst for gain or fame. 2.23 the inability to distinguish between our own true self and our mind. Our mind is often fluctuating and over acting. See the role of each and separate them. 'The 'self' is within you that you can see and tap into and the external that is seen is the mind in action. Control your mind and your 'self' will benefit. Prevent future suffering by forgiving yourself for past mistakes, not being too critical of yourself as holding onto these thoughts can only serve to make you feel more miserable in your own suffering. Don't fight the tides and don't fight nature - letting go of control - a tree doesn't grow and question every part of its growth. Trusting whatever is happening, but let it be. Notice it and your mind will automatically right itself same as well-being. With too much going on in our minds we loose ability to sleep and relationships can suffer. Reclaim your time by turning off electronic devices 10-15 mins a day. At meal times keep them out of site. Block email reading into blocks of time. Set yourself and your family Boundaries with technology to avoid sleep deprivation. Out of bedroom if they can't put down. Consistent schedules in place. Coffee cut down. Stop hiding behind your screen, actually listen. Make time to just chill. Digital detox. Do you have disturbed sleep each night? Are you often irritable? Do you lack the ability to concentrate? Some of us try to Keep ourselves busy all the time and then wonder why this doesn't help. These distractions won't dissipate these behaviours long term either. A recent study has found that meditation and yoga can 'reverse' DNA reactions which cause stress, which can lead to ill-health and depression. Published in the journal, Frontiers of Immunology, the study analysed how behaviour of our genes is affected by different MBIs including mindfulness and yoga. The study followed 846 participants over 11 years and found the DNA changes benefited participants mental and physical health. These activities can reverse the effects of what stress can have on our bodies at a molecule level. This means less chance of diseases such as heart disease or cancer to take over. Yoga participants should already be aware of how continued practice can bring stress relief, but what we didn't know was how deeply our bodies physical make up was affected and how mindful activity such as yoga and Tai Chi prevented psychiatric and medical problems at a cellular level.