Last week, I wrote about physical balance. Today, I am providing reminders about the importance of mental balance.
Improving mental balance with meditation
Let’s sit and do nothing. Just sit and do nothing…and see what happens. That is doing. It is the “seemingly doing nothing” that is powerfully “doing something” in your recovery. How can doing “no thing” actually be doing “some thing” useful? Click the “Click here” link below and find out.
Click here for more on meditation, mindfulness, and doing nothing.
Improving mental balance by knowing that the symptoms are not the problem
In recent weeks with extremely high temperature and humidity, you have been fighting the mind regarding the symptoms getting worse, and many people’s minds have fought them back vigorously.
Thank you all for your continued persistence in fighting against your own minds. Please know this: The symptoms are not the problem.
Click here to better understand the importance of a positive attitude in knowing that the symptoms are not the problem.
Improving mental balance by transforming anger
Anger and frustration over past events block mental balance because you feel the right to be angry over what occurred in the past.
However, having compassion for yourself as the one who was wronged, and forgiveness of the wrongdoer to remove them from your psyche, results in transforming anger into liberation.
Click here learn how to transform anger through compassion and forgiveness.
Improving mental balance with acceptance…”OKAY!”
On January 1, 2025, I posted that 2025 was the year of self-acceptance. Also, as we moved forward together in 2025, I posted blogs to help you elevate the “self-acceptance” aspect of your recovery so that you could relax into accepting yourself unconditionally right now.
Click here for a review of “okay” acceptance as it grew from a simple, “Okay, I accept the reality of the moment” all the way to “Okay, I accept myself unconditionally right now.”
Please post a comment letting us know how you are doing in improving your mental balance by implementing meditation, understanding symptoms, transforming anger, and accepting yourself unconditionally right now.
You are worth it!!!
All my best,
Howard
Good morning!
When my body stiffens and cannot do the body recipe, I stay seated on my chair doing nothing, put some soft religious healing music on low volume on my desktop computer and meditate for 10-15 minutes
Thank you Howard. When I am meditating, I accept that I am more than just my body and that my soul does not have Parkinson’s. When symptoms increase, I try to accept and embrace them without judgement while breathing into that area. I try to follow the advice of Socrates in Way of the Peaceful Warrior: “Just forget yourself and feel.”
Much love
“Okay” has become a popular word. When my symptoms feel worse I sit down and gather myself together and say it’s okay, you’re okay and I allow the peace and calmness to surround me. Taking the time to sit and empty my mind and meditate restores my soul.
Thank you Howard!
Typically I practice sitting and “doing nothing” during mid day or in the evening. I like the comment by Constantinos to do this if stiffness is present while doing the physical exercises of the Recipe. For me, this is in the morning.
Also, I find it helpful to meditate while listening to crystal bowls on the YouTube channel called “Sleeping Vibrations.”
Thank you Howard!
I recently re-framed how I look at symptoms.
I no longer think of them as getting worse, but rather when I notice symptoms I say to myself:
Aha, these symptoms are up for recovery right now!
They are at the forefront of the healing process, that’s why I experience them.
I am grateful for the healing, and I am grateful for my full recovery, which is coming to me in Divine time.
Thank you, Howard, for your ongoing inspiration and support!
And thank you fellow Recovery Warriors for traveling together on this path, learning to love ourselves, always. We are worth it!
I’m trying to think about symptoms like DeAnna, that they are part of the healing process and soon the full recovery will come. Meditations are helping to calm the mind and I’m grateful for the healing.
Thank you Howard for your support and inspiration and to fellow warriors. We are worth it!
I have the power to heal myself!
Every day, and right now!
I am accepting myself unconditionally right now…
I am worth it!!!