Holistic Therapy Tips: How To Feel More Joy + Happiness (Right Now & Today)

October 27, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Tips: How To Feel More Joy + Happiness (Right Now & Today)

Being authentically happier is possible even right now and today. It’s useful to first make the mental note “I could go for more happy vibes” and from there you can start to seek out more moments of joy. Sometimes you may find that others are kind enough to gift these moments of joy to you. But it’s a great idea to create your own moments of joy and happiness so that way you don’t have to wait for anyone. There’s a popular saying that I find to be completely true, “happiness is an inside job”. This means that we can always count on looking within instead of looking outside of ourselves for the things we need most emotionally. In the next few paragraphs, I’m going to share some of my favorite Holistic Therapy tools to feel more joy and happiness.

Choose to Laugh Everyday

Laughter is a medicine of sorts when we authentically laugh we feel happier and in a greater state of emotional ease. Laughter works by connecting us with something to focus on that not only makes us smile but also makes us verbalize our joy via laughing. When you laugh you also get the benefit of reduced stress. Your body physically reduces tension, you get more oxygen, your immunity is increased and you can even burn calories from daily laughter.

When we laugh we feel happier, it’s something we know in the moment as good but it’s also something we may not necessarily seek out on a regular basis. Try taking time at least 1-3x per day to create laughter with friends of alone to boost your personal sense of joy and happiness.

Locate Daily Awe-Worthy Inspiration

Life feels so very different when we cultivate and create a daily experience of accessing awe worth inspiration. I know every day can’t be equally awe inspired but if you reach for the stars as they say, you’ll land in the clouds. Creating a daily inspiration practice is great for making brain connections and cognition development. Imagine looking and finding inspiration daily so much so that you automatically look for it. This method create a great approach to seeking joy via inspiration of the good in the world, the beauty of a blooming rose, a smiling baby, a contagious laugh, a delicious meal, a amazing conversation with a loved one, or time tending your urban indoor garden.

No matter the items or experience you choose as a part of your daily inspiration routine, it should feel re-energizing and like a pleasant treat for you to enjoy. But you also get the bonus ripple effect of your mood likely being brighter which can extend into your important relationships and with the general public as well.

Connect/ Create With Your Hobbies Often

When we take time to connect or cultivate our hobbies we get to access a very unique and special experience called “Flow State”. Flow State is described as becoming completely immersed in the task where you achieve an “optimal state of consciousness” where you feel your best and can access best productivity and performance. When we connect and attend our hobbies we feel more happiness, more creative mindset, we’re learning to evolve from beginner, intermediate, and over to expert every time we engage. There’s a relationship happening that brings joy to us. I won’t lie, sometimes our hobbies can drive us up the wall when we experience set back but it’s a necessary part of the growth process and if we continue to hold space for hobbies, we gain an advantage of increased joy and happiness.

It may go without saying but just in case, it’s useful for your hobby to be something that can be done independently. When your hobby can be done independently you have more access and freedom to enjoy your developing relationship. You can also share hobbies with others but it’s great to save something that’s just for you as well.

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Holistic Therapy Tips To Get Up And Exercise Even When You Feel Tired Or Unmotivated

October 23, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Tips To Get Up And Exercise Even When You Feel Tired Or Unmotivated

It can be hard to find the mental power and commitment it takes to get up and exercise when you feel tired or unmotivated after a long day of working and taking care of others with a packed schedule no less. You might want to get up and go walking, biking, or to do anything that resembles cardio after your busy action packed workday or life day. Then you have the weekend to recover where working may feel like a chore while your goal is to rest, relax, and recover.

I get it, it’s tough to be in action mode when you’re tired. Maybe you’re not getting enough sleep. Maybe you’re feeling over stressed from work or your responsibilities. Ultimately there will be enough good reasons to not workout when you feel tired or unmotivated but there’s also likelihood that you won’t feel as energetic, productive or resilient with your stress when you remove at least moderate fitness from your weekly practice.

In the paragraphs below, I will be sharing 3 tips that make a helpful difference for your holistic practice of bringing physical movement into play more often for your health and wellness efforts.

Start with a Small Approachable Goal

The goal of having more movement or exercise can feel like a big undertaking first thing in the morning and at the close of your day. With a busy schedule and down time being rare it’s not always easy to find the will power or motivation to commit. It may be difficult to get yourself to commit to an hour workout. Honestly, it may be difficult to commit to a 20-minute workout just the same. In these moments where you’d like to workout but find it difficult to commit consider the 5-minute or even the one-minute rule. Instead of committing to a workout that feels long-winded of 10-minutes or more, aim to complete a 5-minute or 1-minute workout instead.

When you commit to just a one minute walk around your home or jogging in place, it counts. You can also consider walking outside for fresh air and sunlight. Once you start your one minute or 5 minute workout you’ll likely naturally add more time to your practice. Even if you don’t add time you still did something for the day and any effort is always going to be better than no effort at all when it comes to fitness.

Make it A Concert: Use Your 5 Senses

Using your 5 senses for your exercise practice makes your efforts feel like an experience similar to going to a concert (remember when that was something to go and do pre-COVID). You want to bring in your 5 senses of taste, smell, sight, feel, and hear when you choose to work on getting more movement.

For Example: Walking Using 5 Senses Approach

Taste: Chewing spearmint gum or mints for refreshment/ bringing delicious tea to drink on the go

Smell: Wearing aromatherapy spray, essential oils, or aromatherapy jewelry

Hear: Listening to your favorite music or podcast

Sight: Walking where you can see nature, plants, water, or flowers

Touch: Wearing comfortable clothes, bundling up if you want to feel cozy, and wearing a comfy walking shoe.

When you use your 5 senses to create an experience where fitness isn’t a chore but a unique custom relaxation or happiness experience, you’ll definitely be able to convince yourself to create time and flexibility to participate more often. Who knows you might even look forward to working out and getting more movement.

Create An Accountability Partnership or Accountability Carrot

Consider inviting a friend or loved one to support or encourage your practice. Maybe they can offer to check in with you a few days a week and encourage/ remind you that you are starting a practice that’s for your self care and wellness. They can ask how your practice is going, if you did your practice today, or if you need any support to get your practice done for the day. It may help to pick an accountability buddy that can be consistent to check in with you which will help you to keep the conversation going until your routine begins to stick.

If you can’t locate a good accountability buddy, consider an accountability carrot where you can work on self-motivation with small rewards when you complete your weekly practice. Maybe at the end of a good week of meeting your practice goals you can treat yourself to a Starbucks run, a home mani-pedi, or a new book or magazine that you want to read.

The idea is to celebrate your progress in a tangible way. You could also enjoy a rest day and feel proud of showing up for yourself even when you didn’t always feel motivated or well rested. With practice your practice can keep getting better so don’t give up, just try your best to work with what you can do.

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5 Unconventional Tips to Improve Your Depression & Energy Right Now!

December 6, 2019 Brandi Jackson

5 Unconventional Tips to Improve Depression & Energy Right Now!

Ever wake up and feel like your energy is already spent for the day and that getting out of bed is going to require major effort? Maybe you’re feeling sluggish and with cloudy thinking or have low patience to be with others because you know they’ll ask for more than you feel you can energetically offer. Maybe you find yourself coping with comfort foods or binge watching Netflix more often. This may be how depression looks for you and as a Licensed Therapist who has treated many clients who experience Depression; I know that being depressed can feel isolating, exhausting, and inevitable. In support, I’m sharing 5 unconventional tips to help you improve your depression and energy right now. Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have feel stuck any longer?

Make Up Your Mind

Did you know your mind has the power to produce thoughts that aren’t always true? When depression symptoms increase you may notice that your thoughts include a higher rate of negative thought cycles including anger, isolation, hopelessness, or worthlessness. When your mind increases negative thought patterns, it’s a best time to identify that you’re on the verge or in an active episode of depression.

Once you identify your experience of having depressed negative thoughts you have an opportunity to take action to shift those negative thought cycles to positive thought cycles. You can shift your negative thought cycles to positive thoughts by challenging the negative thoughts you experience with an intentional positive thought. For example if you ever think, “my family doesn’t care about me, what’s the use”, the alternative thought may be “I know my family loves me even though they show me differently than I would like”. Challenge your negative thoughts often in order to improve your depression experience. I know it may not be easy to believe your intentional positive thoughts at first but over time and with practice; thinking intentional and positive is a helpful tool to change how depression feels.

Schedule Your Phone Time

Yes, I know we all love our cell phones, laptops, Internet, and social media. And, what if being continually exposed to electronic devices throughout the day is making you more depressed? The more time you spend consuming media without having a structured schedule increases the probability of developing unhealthy coping behaviors for depression. Giving our screens too much attention can cost us the ability to concentrate, to maintain focus, to remember things clearly, to feel connected to ourselves, or to feel a sense of adequacy.

Scheduling your phone use not only helps you to avoid "ongoing phone in hand syndrome", but gives your mind a sense of order to know when and how long you will be using your devices or using social media. Scheduling time for using your phone can increase productivity. Scheduling phone time also will help improve your symptoms of depression, and boost your energy.

Set Your Home & Work Intentions

Before you’re actively in the midst of your day at home or at work, a great tool to organize your mind and reduce depression and low energy is to set your intentions. If you’re at home or work consider setting your intention for the day to help being home or at work and interacting with others feel mindful. Before opening emails or jumping into work projects think about how you want to experience the day. Setting intentions can be as simple as stating or writing “today will be a day with positive interactions, more laughter, and productivity”. When we practice setting intentions our mindset has the support in place to become collaborative and flexible to experience energetic and emotional success.

Change Your Focus in Nature

It may not always be a sunny day outside but being outdoors is an amazing way to reset your depression or experience of low energy. Many great things happen when you make a habit of going outside routinely. You get access to open space, which allows you to practice mindful observation. Mindful observation is a tool to explore your environment using your 5 senses of hearing, touching, seeing, smelling, and tasting. To make this tip work for depression choose to focus your attention on observing the objects or interactions that you can appreciate, help you feel joy, or that you find interesting.

Going outdoors also has a great benefit of increasing access to sunlight and Vitamin D, which is known to ward off depression and balance mood. Additionally, being outside and away from your primary environment can help your mind to rest from negative thoughts and reset your energy.

Scale Your Mood Daily

Depression is something that occurs on a spectrum of stability to acute intensity. Therapists often ask their client’s to select a number between 1 and 10 in order to better understand the stability or intensity of client symptoms. You can do this practice for yourself as well. Consider locating your depression on a scale of 1 to 10 when you start your day or as needed. Assessing and seeing where your depression is scaled numerically daily helps for you to assign the right coping practice to match your needs intentionally. If you find that your symptoms are low, you have feedback that what your doing is working. If your depression is increasing continually, it’s also helpful feedback to retrace your steps to determine the root issue and to create a plan to reduce your symptoms.

Practicing any one of these tips may be helpful for depression and low energy relief, but practicing more than 1 will definitely give you a greater advantage. As hard as it may feel to tell yourself that you can do much to change how you feel, please know that you can. Depression management means proactive daily attendance. Taking action is the first step. Count reading this article as a good sign you’re already working on feeling better and still have some hope left. Improving your depression may take effort at first and with continued practice and using my 5 unconventional tips you can feel empowered may find eventually your depression management is easy and simple. Don’t give up.

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How To: Breakup With Anxiety and Depression in 7 Days! Anxiety and Depression Breakup Plan Workshop 7 Day Program

July 8, 2017 Brandi Jackson

Hi, Beautiful Wellnista!

How are you doing? No. Really. How are you?

I hope you are doing amazing, feeling amazing and living your "feel your best life truth". But if you have been having a time with anxiety, stress, depression, FOMO (fear of missing out), or feeling just plain burnt all the way out, I have something special to share with you.

How to Breakup With Your Anxiety and Depression in 7 Days?

I am a practiced clinician with a decade of experience helping people reach change and transformation, many of the folks I work with experience real anxiety and depression. I also have my own experience with anxiety and depression. Over the last 15 years and counting, I have mapped my own road to long term recovery. I want to share the top 10 methods that I have found scientifically impactful for changing the human relationship to anxiety and depression.

This workshop and workbook materials are completely free and available online. To learn more about the course to see if it's a match for you please read below!

Are you currently struggling with:

Constant Distraction
Uncontrollable Roller Coaster Mood Swings
Constant Overwhelm
Limited Focus/ Difficulty Concentrating
Increased Stress/ Exhausting Life Demands
Limited Free Time
Depression
Anxiety

If so, the Anxiety and Depression Breakup Plan (7 Day Plan) is a match for you! The workshop was designed to:

Improve Mood
Buffer Stress + Negative Energy
Improve Stress Recovery Time
Improve Patience
Improve Concentration
Increase Emotional Control
Improve Communication
Provide a Custom Plan to Manage Anxiety + Depression

This course if for women who are motivated to live beyond anxiety and depression. It's time to get in charge and be vibrant!

Are you ready to increase the amount of freedom, confidence and vibrancy you feel in your day?

So, let me tell you just a few more items that come with this juicy and FREE Anxiety and Depression Breakup Plan Workshop 7 Day Program.

When you Join the Anxiety and Depression Break Up 7 Day Program:

Here is what you'll get:

The Top 10 Methods you can practice daily to get in charge of your Anxiety & Depression
A Simple but Powerful Anxiety and Depression Daily Workbook
A custom Video Course for the Top 10 scientifically founded daily practice methods
A "before and after" Journal for your 7 days of practice
Daily emails for mood support and encouragement
A Graduation celebration letter and surprise gift on Day 7.

The AD Breakup frequently asked questions are also available for any questions or navigation support you may need. Just click the AD Breakup Registration button located above to see if your question is posted in the AD Breakup FAQ's List.

Watch the video to learn more details regarding the video below:

I hope you enjoyed learning more about The Anxiety and Depression Breakup Plan Workshop and how it can help change your relationship to anxiety and depression for the long term. Sound off in the comments below, what's your biggest gripe about anxiety and depression?

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How to Master Seasonal Affective Disorder: 10 Tips for Life Recovery for Mental Health

November 28, 2016 Brandi Jackson

What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?

It's just about the time of year where symptoms for Seasonal Affective Disorder and "Holiday Season Depression" symptoms start to increase to a noticeable level for folks who may experience them.

Seasonal Affective Disorder usually begins during fall season but may become more pronounced mid-season due to building consistency of symptoms.

Symptoms to watch for:

This may appear as a general weariness, low energy, low frustration tolerance, isolative behaviors, sadness, feelings of loneliness, mood swings, tearfulness, agitation, overeating or eating less than normal or over sleeping or not getting restful sleep in general.

I wanted to share 10 tips to help you master Seasonal Affective Disorder and "Holiday Season Depression".

Watch the video below for an explanation of why the 10 tips are useful for symptoms or read the list below.

I hope you find these tips useful to take back your winter season with health and happiness. Share in the comments below any tip that you found helpful or please share a tip that is not included in the list.

Wishing you all the Best,

Brandi J.

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