Resting Your Senses
March 4, 2010 in stress and anxiety relief There was a time when life was slower, quieter, and so we had time to breathe and time to think, but now everything is so fast and polluted by noise and images everywhere we turn. When exposed to this excessive incoming information our senses can easily become punch drunk and exhausted.
The only time we get to process all the information our senses take in during the day, is while we sleep. But when the senses are constantly receiving incoming information without a break, we get mental indigestion due to the mind being too full to process information healthily and our sleep naturally suffers.
Signs of a restless, over-stimulated mind include:
- anxiety
- aggravated dreams
- trouble settling down to sleep
- racing thoughts
- shallow or rapid breathing
- stress and tension
We all understand that eating junk food isn't a good choice for our health, but we rarely stop to consider that junk impressions and choices in entertainment aren't good for our mental health. When our senses are taking in violent moves, video games and intense TV dramas it can be unhealthy for our minds and will affect our emotional balance.
Entertaining the senses has become an addiction, people everywhere are constantly fiddling with phones or facebook. It's as if we've forgotten how to be content with our own quiet company…
When we connect with our internal world we journey closer to who we really are. There's a beautiful sense of awareness and peace to be found in pressing pause and taking a break from incessant incoming noise.
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