Liz Clifton: How to create and enjoy a calm holistic life
What does calm mean to you?
The first thing for you to understand is what does calm mean to you.
Take a moment in peace and quiet where you will be alone and if it’s safe to do so, close your eyes and imagine a moment of calm.
It can be a real memory or an imagined moment where you’re feeling absolutely calm.
As you feel that relaxing sense of calm flowing into you notice what you can see?
Notice what you can hear?
Notice what you can feel?
Notice what You can taste?
Notice what you can smell?
Notice what you can touch?
Then gently clear away the image and open your eyes.
Ask yourself what was the very last thing that you ate?
Now, everything that you just noticed is part of what calm means to you in this specific moment.
You can get a wider, deeper sense of what calm means to you by imagining other moments of calm either real or imagined and being aware of what comes up for you.
Are they the same sites, sounds, feelings, tastes, smells and textures, or are they different?
Calm comes in so many different ways to everyone.
We’re all unique and we each experience emotions and feelings in different ways in the sense of calm will have stacked up for you over the years.
You’re very first moment of calm will have occurred before you’re even 3 years old and often much earlier than that.
Now the beauty of you and your mind is the wonderful capacity that it holds to absorb so much information through all of your senses in every moment.
And what we’re looking to do here is to empower you to remain calm to have a beautiful base of calm as a foundation for your life for the whole of your life.
Why create a calm holistic life?
So consider now the different areas of your life and how different they could be if you were to view them from a calm mindset.
If you could approach them with clear, calm balance and a sense of curiosity and enjoyment.
Consider your environment that you live in right now. How would it be to enjoy it from a calm perspective every morning, every evening and the holidays and weekends?
How would it be to enjoy each of your relationships from a sense of calm connection to be able to communicate with yourself and others from a deep place of calm?
And how would it be to approach your finances and your daily work and activities from a place of calm?
I imagine that these thoughts create a difference to what you’re experiencing right now.
The great news is that you can begin today to step towards your wonderful unique calm holistic life.
In the past you may have got stuck in the day-to-day actions and activities of your life. Perhaps feeling trapped in old emotions in old thoughts and stress.
Creating a calm holistic life enables you to process release and let go of these old emotional blocks and baggage.
Which then in turn allows you to start to choose how to feel in each and every moment from a balance calm epicentre.
Simple calming practices for you to try:
Here are a few calming activities to help you begin your journey to holistic calm in your life:
Calming breath reset
This three second breathing practice will support you to pause and reset whenever and wherever you need a little boost of calm.
The longer out breath helps you to gently slow down your heart rate and breath just a little which naturally helps to calm you.
Breathe in for the count of 1,
Breathe out for the count of 2
Repeat until you feel calm and enjoy a calming pause and reset anywhere with ease.
Calming playlist creation
Music has an amazing ability to shift our emotions for us fast. In fact, music can support you to move through your emotions in just 90 seconds.
So if you choose a couple of songs or pieces of music which are over 90 seconds, this is going to enable you to really move through any old emotions or feelings into a beautiful calm mindset and emotion.
Thank you so much for being you, for being here and for experiencing this article and activities.
Enjoy your very best step into a clear, calm holistic life and do reach out for support whenever you need it.
Please do share what your top calming music track is?
Liz Clifton
Liz Clifton is the Founder of Family Dog Connection Limited and take34u™ and she is on a mission to empower at least 3 million individuals (of any species) to create the clear, calm, connected confidence to choose to be themselves and enjoy at least 3 minutes of daily self care joy. Through a bespoke combination of Calm Holistic Coaching, Intuitive Leadership Mentoring, Indian head massage, Hypnosis, Timeline Therapy®, Reiki and Animal Reiki Sessions and Training of all levels she will help guide you and your animals to calm in person or distantly in a group or 1:1.
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Thanks so much Sarah for sharing your favourite calming music with us. Do you have a favourite track at the moment?
This is fantastic, thank you for the tips
Thanks so much for your kind words of support Sharon, it’s absolutely my pleasure to support you.
Love this. Enjoyed reading it
Thanks so much for your kind feedback Nicola, I’m so pleased that you enjoyed reading the article.
What a gorgeous read. Packed full of good information. Calm play lists is something I’ve been doing for almost a year now, and they certainly helped me, particularly with focus, and starting my day on a better note❤️
Thanks so much Estefania for your kind words and support. Yes calm play lists are so supportive and I also love using them for other emotions too such as motivated ones before a presentation. Music is such a fantastic resource to help us shift our emotions and mindset with ease and efficiency.
Coming back to calm is vital for health. Thanks Liz for the fabulous tips and reminders
Thanks Michelle for your kind thoughts and support. Yes absolutely, a strong foundation of calm is so important and helps us in all areas of our lives. I especially appreciate the clarity and open perspective that calmness brings to me.
This is so helpful thank you
Thanks so much Amy for your kind comment, I’m really glad that the article helped you.
This is something that is so important yet easily overlooked by so many people as to the power of it all- I think everyone needs to seriously consider shifting their lives to be in tune
Thanks so much Kelly anne for your kind support and comments. I absolutely agree that just a little shift into tune (especially a calm one) would support us all.
You are so right Liz – I enjoy listening to Chopin piano classics, so calming and restful
Thanks so much Susanne for sharing your favourite music with us. Mmm Chopin is definitely supremely relaxing and calming.