100 Days of Mindfulness – Day 54

2nd April 2020 Shona Hirons Mindfulness Monday 0

Focus on Today

When you’re anxious, you can get lost in “What-if” thoughts, you may always jump to the worse case scenarios.

I used to dwell a lot on the past and worry about so many things that might happen and my mind would often run away with itself.

As soon as I learnt to let go and focus on the present, be grateful for the things I do have, be kind to myself and write out positive affirmations every day, these anxious thoughts disappeared.

There will be times when anxiety creeps back in, but the trick is to bring yourself back to the present and focus only on that, because no-body knows what’s around the corner. Take one day at a time.

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Shona has a significant advantage over many wellbeing professionals: she has lived through what she is trying to address.

She knows burnout is real and that the road to recovery is diverse and fraught, so she doesn’t lecture.

She provides facts, she listens, she shares her experience in an open debate.

When running our wellbeing workshop at GKN Automotive, she was able to make a traditionally guarded audience who had not previously met her, open up and make themselves vulnerable within less than 30 minutes.

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