Pema Chödrön teaches us about taking a break ! It's called Pause Practice .....
Pause practice—taking three conscious breaths at any moment when we notice that we are stuck—is a simple but powerful practice that each of us can do at any given moment.
Taking a pause break , being in the just now moment, can help create a feeling of safety. This in turn is a beautiful compassionate exercise for us to practice. Self compassion helps soothe the system, feelings of safety can arise and this in turn increases the oxytocin levels and feelings of security.
When you are washing up, or making your coffee or tea, or brushing your teeth, just create a gap in your busy mind.
Upon rising and waking in the morning, running late, drop the story-line and take a pause break ! Take three conscious breaths.
Just pause.
Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a bubble. Let it be just a moment in time, and then go on.
Wherever you are or whatever you are doing, you can still create that gap by taking three conscious breaths and being right there in the moment. Perhaps whilst listening to the other person, standing in line waiting, at the traffic lights, be right there with whatever you are seeing, with whatever you are doing, with whatever you are feeling and take a Pause Break
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