3 Ways to Reboot Your Mental Energy

3 Ways to Reboot Your Mental Energy

Rejuvenating Nourishing Rituals for Peace of Mind

Your natural positive state of being is joy with a calm peaceful state of mind. When fear or pain disrupts your natural state, you automatically attempt to return to that state, but modern culture makes it harder with its constant stress. Then you tell yourself you “should” have more healthy habits, which triggers a stressful resistance.

I invite you to reframe the way you speak about creating positive healthy habits to enjoy a calm peaceful state of mind. Instead of saying, “I should have good self-care habits”, try saying, “I love my rejuvenating nourishing rituals, and I deserve them!” Do you feel the difference? What would you love? Create your own rituals to rejuvenate and nourish your mental, emotional and physical health. You deserve a little RNR!

Create rejuvenating nourishing rituals that you love to provide you with a mental reboot, a social reconnect and a physical reset. My previous blog, 3 Purposes of Rejuvenating Nourishing Rituals, provided an overview of those 3 purposes. This blog will focus on the mental reboot.

Mental Reboot - Rest

Let’s start with a mental reboot to allow your mind to rest and remain calm as you peacefully process your thoughts and beliefs. A good place to start a reboot is to process your memories and how they trigger your current thoughts and beliefs. 

Then you can get creative with any changes you’d like to make, which is a great opportunity to use your imagination to consider what you would love. 

Finally, we’ll discuss some activities to make the shift to rejuvenating nourishing rituals feel easy and natural. You can create rituals to affirm your truth that you deserve to be happy, healthy, wealthy and wise simply because you are alive.

Memories

Since most of your thoughts are repetitive, stemming from your beliefs, which are primarily based on past experience, mostly during your childhood, processing your memories can help you shift your belief patterns and subsequently your thought patterns.

Some “shoulds” come from your own thoughts and beliefs. You feel the same stressful resistance when the should comes from your internal narrator as you do from another person.

Challenge your thoughts and beliefs. They may have been helpful in the past, but things change. Are they still helpful? Do they feel right? Do you still believe them, or have you witnessed evidence that refutes them? Do they align with your vision and values? Shift any beliefs that no longer serve you. Reboot your patterns. 

I used to believe in Murphy’s Law, that everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. So I often found myself expecting everything to go wrong, and I would look for examples of how things went wrong. So my focus on everything going wrong prevented me from focusing on all the things that went well in my life. Murphy’s Law is a classic example of the lack mentality. If you’re too busy worrying about all the things you don’t have, you’ll miss seeing all the opportunities that do come your way. 

Actively think of all the good things that have happened in your life. Make a nice long list to remind yourself when things aren’t going the way you want them to. You could create a rejuvenating nourishing ritual to periodically take some time to sit in your favorite setting and remember some of the good times in your life, just to feel the energy of those memories. 

Be careful to avoid comparisons. You will never experience the exact same event again, so comparing past memories to your present circumstances and to your future circumstances just creates negative judgments, emotions and physical responses. Instead, use them as lessons learned to remind you of specific actions that work well and those that don’t under certain circumstances. Seeing the past as information to use instead of events to replicate is key to healthy mental processes.

Instead of trying to duplicate past experiences, create future memories that you would love. What is the best case scenario for an upcoming situation? Imagine it in full sensory detail and memorize that scenario. 

When you imagine a worse case scenario, you experience that scenario as if it is actually happening. Your body can’t tell the difference between real and imagined, so you will experience the fight or flight response in every physical detail. 

I invite you to focus on the best case scenario to produce the positive experience instead. You will be more likely to see the opportunities to make the best case scenario actually happen. Even if some bad things happen, you won’t have to experience them twice. 

When your beliefs revolve around what you lack, then you experience lack. When your beliefs revolve around gratitude for your abundance, then you experience abundance. Try shifting your beliefs to gratefully embrace the abundance you already have, and you’ll naturally attract and notice more abundance in your life.

Creativity

Creating future memories that you would love can be used for memorizing a best case scenario for an upcoming situation and also for your ideal life vision. Memorizing your life vision serves as a compass to align your beliefs and actions.

You can get creative with any changes you’d like to make to your belief system, many call it your paradigm. Instead of repeating about 90% of your same unhelpful thoughts over and over, you can instill new beliefs to automate helpful thoughts. This is a great opportunity to consider what you would love, and reboot your beliefs accordingly. 

Start by appreciating your ability to create good in your life - good thoughts, good relationships and good experiences. You create each of your experiences, not only by participating in it, but also by creating the meaning you give each experience. You can choose to create positive meanings instead of negative ones. 

Some of your worst experiences have had positive consequences. For example, my infertility led me to adopt my son. I can’t imagine life without my son. All the effort that went into the adoption process serves as a reminder for me to never take my role as a parent for granted.

Just as you appreciate your own creativity in weaving your best experiences, you can appreciate others’ creative abilities, too. Know that your creativity can collaborate with others’ creativity to achieve positive steps for even more than for yourselves. Together you can create world changing experiences through the ripple effect, starting with its effect on family, friends and your local community. 

Be curious and look for fun ways to create rituals in your life that will help you live in a calm and peaceful state of mind. What kinds of meditative, restful or rejuvenating  activities do you enjoy? Choose a variety of activities to give yourself a mentally relaxing and peaceful reboot.

Activities

Sometimes you just need to change what you’re doing or how you’re doing it in a fun or challenging way to create the initial mental reboot. For example, you could try an activity that uses a different part of your brain. If you tend to be logical, try something artistic. If you’re artistic, try organizing your tools and products in the most logical fashion to support your work.

You can also choose a fun activity to do with family or friends that is different from the things you typically do together. Find something that stimulates your mind and includes lots of laughs. You could choose something you’ve always wanted to do and just haven’t created the time or financial resources to make it happen. If it’s worth it you will figure out how to prioritize the time and finances. You could also step outside of your comfort zone and invest in an experience that you are drawn to but have never experienced. Indulge your curiosity. You could expand your horizons significantly with one new activity.

Life is constantly changing. If you stop changing, you start atrophying. So you could try challenging yourself mentally, emotionally and physically, which would give you a mental reboot plus bonuses. 

What would you love? If you’re busy with mental work, especially on the computer, you could start with little NEAT activities - Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis. The idea is to take frequent quick breaks throughout the day to move physically, like walking, climbing stairs, cooking, cleaning, crafting, building, etc. I also include the idea of natural stretching and standing on one leg at a time that are not included in your formal exercises. The physical breaks give you a quick mental reboot, which actually make you more productive in less time. 

Physical activities can also help you shift your mental loops of anxious worry about the future or the depressing loops of regretting the past. Physical activities can help you be more fully present, especially when you’re doing something new that requires even more focus. Physical activities also produce those feel-good hormones, which give you an added mental and emotional boost.

Choose some smaller rejuvenating nourishing rituals to create with lots of pleasure and no real resistance, so they feel easy and natural. What would you love?

Going Deeper with the  Rejuvenating Nourishing Rituals

In the next two blog posts, I will discuss the purposes of rejuvenating nourishing rituals in more depth.

  • 3 Steps to Reconnect for Your Emotional Energy

    • Strengthen your relationships to feel more joy

  • 3 Moves to Reset Your Physical Energy 

    • Practice your rituals for optimal natural health

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