9 tips for living a simple life
The vital rhythm of nature runs in a simple way. And this is how ours can go if we do not complicate it with impositions and mandates and opt for simplicity.
1. DISABLE AUTOPILOT
To achieve a simple way of life, far from constant restlessness and stress, we need to consider a change of attitude.
In your daily life, stop proceeding mechanically. Brake. Take your time. Take a deep breath. Do not run.
Don't lose your serenity. Learn to face moments of stress (inevitable) with calmness and patience.
Focus on your life. Live through all your senses. Live in the present, in the now, without constantly worrying about before or after.
2. LISTEN TO THE MESSAGES OF INTUITION
Our intuition, if we know how to listen to it, helps us stay focused and serene. It shows us the signs, both physical and emotional, that something is not right. It also tells us when we are in disharmony with ourselves.
Reconnect with your intuition, and learn to listen to the signals of your body and your unconscious. Take time to contemplate your needs and satisfy them.
Also, use your intuition to free yourself from anger, resentment, and those external attachments that hold you back, afflict you, and prevent you from living a simple life in harmony with yourself.
3. FEEL WITH YOUR FIVE SENSES
The frenetic pace of our lives distances us from our bodies, making us forget that we have five senses and that they are all important to rediscover our tempo.
Walk observing the colors, feeling the breeze, and being aware of your movements. Stop to smell the morning aroma. Eat enjoying the textures and flavors. Take a shower letting the water massage you. Live, slowly, through your five senses.
4. LOAD YOUR DAILY LIFE WITH LOVE
Small everyday events are what make up our lives. Giving importance to each act undertaken, to each movement made, to each word spoken, will bring us excitement and happiness.
Breakfast with your family, kissing your children, and petting your dog will nourish you and help you achieve your internal balance. These moments, not because they are every day, lose their importance; Quite the contrary, small things recharge our body with love, tenderness, and harmony every day. Life gives them to you daily.
5. LET GO OF WHAT YOU DON'T NEED
Nowadays, people tend to accumulate. Possessing many goods brings us happiness. However, do we need so many clothes, so many
gadgets, so many cars and so many accessories to be happy? Not really. Material abundance does not bring us closer to happiness. Sometimes even this need to buy and hoard is nothing more than an indication of our emotional shortcomings.
By reducing our possessions, we will achieve more free space in our homes and greater simplicity in our lives. It is better to have a little, useful and well chosen, than a lot, useless and dispensable.
6. PRACTICE TECHNOLOGICAL DISCONNECTION
Since the advent of smartphones, we have lost freedom. At all hours of the day and night, notifications bombard us. We are saturated.
Silence your cell phone at mealtime. Don't be with your children and pay attention to notifications. At night, turn off the screens.
Recover such pleasant activities as reading a book, painting, knitting... Relaxing tasks that will help you calm down and find balance.
7. CREATE YOUR SPACE OF SILENCE
In a society as saturated with noise as ours, not everyone manages to be and remain silent; However, its benefits are many and valuable. Silence offers us calm, stillness, rest, and connection with our interior.
Create a corner for serenity in your home and use it daily. And in those moments of silence, free your mind from worries. If you think about something, let it pass, concentrate on the silence, on the serenity it brings you, on the calm that invades you.
8. CHOOSE NOURISHING RELATIONSHIPS
Reducing our material belongings gives us physical and mental freedom, but we can also apply the same criteria to our relationships,
reducing those social obligations that saturate us emotionally.
If you don't feel like it, you don't have to meet everyone. Simplify your social contacts. Visit the people who make you feel good, enjoy long after-dinner conversations with those who nourish you emotionally and intellectually. In love and sex, look for a person(s) with whom you can maintain a relationship of complicity and equality, far from the complex and tortuous.
9. FOLLOW THE RHYTHM OF NATURE
What better way to recover a simple life than turning our eyes towards nature? For thousands of years, human beings lived immersed in natural rhythms that transmitted calm and plenitude.
Take your time to observe and integrate into the rhythm of the forests, the beach, and the park. Let yourself be inundated by the solemnity of the trees, the harmony of the birds, or the cadence of the waves of the sea.
Like them, you can live simply, without feeling continually anxious. You are designed for it, it is in your hand.
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