Inner Calm Meditation Watch now |Wellness Workshop With Emma

“Buy this, try this new health craze, add to your cart, new and improved, buy NOW!” This is the chant of the end of the year season made by marketers all around. It’s like surround sound in our minds. Amplifying and heightening our nervous systems so that we make a quick purchase to band-aid the guilt that ads make us feel.

This is the comparison trap – comparing ourselves to those around us. It makes us feel like we should be in a different stage or phase of life. It’s a huge part of the health and wellness industry, and it’s a huge reason that your mind is trapped in negative dynamics. The voice in your head that bickers and tells you to set new goals, start the new year with the newest health trend, is a mirror of all the over-stimulation that we are fed on a daily basis. No wonder it’s so hard to know what we truly want.

Our LMHC talks in way more depth about this here: https://empowerwellness.substack.com/p/december-wellness-challengegrace

(It’s one of my favorites from the month thus far, so give the link a click if you haven’t seen it already!)

To further dive into this topic, the focus of our Workshop Wednesday is finding that inner stillness and sitting with it. WARNING: This can be uncomfortable. We might feel inclined to:
- Break the silence
- Distract ourselves more
- Get overwhelmed and use our favorite coping mechanism (e.g., doom scrolling)

This is normal, and it’s a part of the process. It can feel counterintuitive when something that is supposed to feel “relaxing”, ends up making us feel worse than when we started. We have to flex the muscle of tolerating discomfort. And silence can be uncomfortable.

That’s why we’re here to practice! You have the power to wire your brain.

Thanks for joining me today and I can’t wait to see you next Wednesday for more.

Leave a comment - I’d love to hear if anything resonated or stood out to you during this video :)

Emma von Holten
Wellness Coach | M.S. Psych

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