The door of Ch’an is entered by Wu. When we meditate on Wu we ask “What is Wu?” On entering Wu, we experience emptiness; we are not aware of existence, either ours or the world’s.
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Emotions are just too quiet in today’s fast paced world. Emotional overload from work pressure, relationship challenges or the banging away at the daily life’s demands can leave you drained, anxious and unable to cope effectively. Luckily there are mindfulness practices that are powerful ways to calm emotional intensity and bring us back into inner balance. In this article, I’ll explore how mindfulness can help you ride out of emotional overload toward a more resilient, peaceful you, sharing techniques that will help you do just that.
When your ability to process emotions is overloaded, that’s emotional overload. It often manifests as feelings of:
External pressures or unprocessed internal conflicts hit you in this state. First, recognize these signs, the first step to getting control back.
Staying present, staying engaged in the moment, without judgment, mindfulness, can really support emotional health. Its benefits include:
Mindfulness is a foundational practice (deep breathing) calming the nervous system and decreasing stress.
In this exercise, you’re shifting your attention to your breath, bringing you back to this moment, and at the same time, relieving some emotional tension.
The body scan technique helps you re-establish our relationship with our physical self and locate our emotional stress in our physical self.
Listening to your body, you are more aware of how your emotions affect your physical body and a release of built up tension.
Writing your thoughts and feelings down can give you clarity and help you to relieve anxiety.
Journaling helps you to reduce those emotions and helps you understand them and your patterns.
Much of the time, emotional overload happens when we’re judging our feelings as bad, wrong. With mindfulness you learn to notice emotions without naming them.
This space between you and your emotions provides a calm response, versus an impulsive one.
When you start focusing on gratitude, you begin to see differently, and it reduces emotional overwhelm.
Gratitude meditation brings your energy off of what is feeding your anxiety and puts it back on what nourishes you.
To make mindfulness a consistent practice, integrate it into your daily routine:
Mindfulness is practiced consistently and transforms how you process and approach emotions. Key benefits include:
Like any new habit, practicing mindfulness can come with obstacles:
Solution: Do a small amount (2-5 minutes or less) every day, and increase from there.
Solution: Know it is natural to be wandering. Without any frustration, bring back your focus gently.
Solution: Be patient. Mindfulness is a long term practice that takes time to build benefit over time.
Life brings emotional overload, but it doesn’t have to control you. You can learn how to control your emotions with the use of mindfulness practices, diminish stress, and invite inner peace into your life. Mindfulness gives us a path to resilience and emotional well being either through breathing exercise, body scan meditations, or mindful journaling. Each step begins with starting small, staying consistent, and let’s see how mindfulness changes your emotions and expands the life you live.