Emotional stress doesn't subtract from your ability to savour the joyous moments.

Oct 28

Following a fruitful day working, taking care of the family and household or laboring over final exams (AKA HSC), most of us want to relax and recover.

Recuperating and reenergizing is important not only for the remainder of the day, but the next as well, and especially before the start of a new week. All of us have access to a variety of interventions for physical discomfort or pain, including massage, sauna, yoga, topical applications or pain relievers.

But what about the emotional stress and imbalance that builds up some days and sometimes seems overwhelming?

Those days when we experience negative emotions like anger and anxiety can be especially exhausting and draining. It is as important to regenerate and find renewed emotional balance as it is to care for physical injury and pain.

The symptoms of emotional stress and imbalance may not be alarming initially: slight irritability and anxiousness over little things, uncharacteristic inattentiveness to family, friends or work, less-than-normal clarity in decision-making. Eventually, however, the effects on performance, relationships and even health become more noticeable and frequent.

Is there an effective strategy for addressing emotional stress and imbalance? The Institute of HeartMath has developed a number of techniques and one of the most effective and popular is the “Soft Heart Tool”.

Your "soft heart" is an easygoing, warm place of compassion for you, a place of ease and self-care, like a warm blanket or bath. Practicing with this Tool 2 or 3 times a week can help you recuperate and reenergize from the emotional stress of daily life.

Would you like to know how to access and use this tool? Get in touch and allow yourself to find the extraordinary you!!

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Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

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