Mindful Shelter-in-place: Creative Practices Enhancing Wellbeing.

Creative practices to help you manage stress by cultivating imagination, mindfulness and resilience.

Are you feeling sadness, confusion and reduced concentration? Perhaps irritability, anger, uneasiness? Interpersonal problems while sheltered-in-place? Somatic complains? Reduced energy? Difficulties sleeping? 

You are not alone. Stress is unpleasant and hinders our immunity. Anxiety makes it hard to think clearly and make decisions. With your nervous system overloaded by the pandemic reaction formation and the challenges of being isolated, it’s important to find ways to become more creative. 

While an increase in your stress is actually a normal response, you want to make sure to include practices that will help you become more resilient physically and mentally during the vast shutdowns. 

Resilience is not some magical quality; it takes intentional efforts to overcome difficulties and practice to transcend hardship. But even after catastrophic events, resilient individuals are able to find meaning, give a new direction to their lives, and move toward achieving their goals. 

There's growing evidence that resilience can be cultivated. Both mindfulness and imagination are stepping stones to building resilience. Mindfulness to deal with anxiety and stress, and the practice of imagination to integrate the experience.

As a mental health practitioner, consultant and educator I am interested in helping people build resilience in times of uncertainty. In addition, foster the practice of active imagination as a door into the spaciousness of the psyche in times of confinement. One can find a sense of belonging and serenity from within through the practice of active imagination, visualization, mindfulness, and compassionate meditation.

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