Below you will find a 7-day challenge, or experience, or whatever you would like to call it. These activities are to get you engaged to help ground yourself and investigate your feelings and thoughts and help you to be able to process and respond to what you’re experiencing. It is a chance to take pause and be more mindful. The hoped for outcome is a better understanding of yourself, especially during these challenging times, and a set of actions you can engage in regardless of whether you’re bored or you’re completely overwhelmed with what life’s throwing at you.
The first day includes a link to help you start a mindfulness practice. You are encouraged to take 5-10 minutes at a minimum each day engaging in mindful practice. It is called mindful practice for a reason. You’re training your brain to be in the present. Meanwhile, your brain is trying to analyze all this data from the past and trying to anticipate the future, going 100 miles an hour. Remember, you can be mindful through meditation, walking, eating, etc. Each day on the calendar there is a different topic, reading and activity. Daily journal prompts are included each day to help you identify and/or process your thoughts and feelings about the topic chosen for that day. You can choose to do every day in order or you can jump around to the topics most relevant to you. As with most things in life, you will get as much out of each day as you put into it. Each week another seven days of taking pause will be uploaded.