Maintaining Wellness and Finding Fulfillment Throughout the Pandemic
Tags: Focus, Wellness, Health, Meditation, Pandemic

As the pandemic continues, many people are losing hope and having a hard time fulfilling their dreams. Limitless Health Institute designs many programs to encourage people to help each other stay hopeful and find opportunities in the challenges that come. There are some very important and simple ways to keep our mind and body sustained that promote mental and physical stability and balance. Once we achieve a peaceful state of mind and sustain a healthy lifestyle, we see the light of hope shine again, even through extreme uncertainty.

Traditionally, there are four different areas of sustenance we should do in our daily lives to maintain wellness, especially during difficult times; food, sleep, focus and hope. We learn about the value of eating well and resting at a young age, but how often do we acquire knowledge about the benefits of focus and hope to sustain a healthy body and mind?

According to classical healing arts, there are some simple ways we can strengthen our eating habits and determine the best way physical food can support our good health. The first way is to intake food in healthy portions, and to not eat too little or too much. To make sure we get the right amount of nourishment; we must share food resources with others.

Next is getting a restful night’s sleep, which sounds logical but let’s examine it more so we can assure good results. As we fall off into a deep sleep we withdraw the sense consciousness of the eyes and ears. When we rest, we lessen the contact we have with objects of the outside world. When we are awake, the mind makes contact with the environment and objects around us, and that contact with things sustains different mental functions. For example, the love and compassion we feel is heightened by contact of the mind with another person.

The type of sustenance we get from focused thinking is intensified by specific thoughts like love, and other ideas and feelings we concentrate on. Sometimes we struggle to stay focused on daily activities, and end up thinking about something else besides the task at hand. This drains our energy and can hurt the body and mind. One simple way to gain good focus is to never interrupt others when they are focused!

Another source of inner and outer support is hope. A sharp awareness and understanding of how we perceive ourselves and the world can direct the mind through different states of emotions, and so on. Hope can be brought to mind and kept there, especially as we help others see hope in their own lives.

When we are just learning to meditate, we can only keep our mind on the object for very brief moments of time as it jumps around to everything else in our life. Learning to observe our own mind more consciously helps us develop the ability to quiet our mind, balance emotions, and think clearly. A sleepy mind and busy thoughts will pop up whenever they want. The more time we spend meditating on a meaningful object and stay there without distractions or spacing out, increases our ability to pull the mind back to the object stronger than before.

Meditative abilities increase as our efforts to concentrate the mind are practiced without exhausting it. Often a deep state of dullness takes our energy and makes us tired, depressed or just plain spacey. We must then try to uplift the mind by thinking of all the cool things in our lives or of someone else in our life. This will restore a bright and hopeful state of mind.

When we are able to sit quietly without distractions, and the mind is bright and clear, we no longer have to worry about getting worn down and hopeless. We can drive our thoughts in a direction of confidence and trust in our own capacity to heal. Then we are in a place to help others feel inspired to achieve their goals. When the strength of our mental awareness increases, and we are watchful over our thoughts and feelings more and more, we have to make a conscious effort to increase our willingness to confront and defeat even tiny negative emotions when they do come up. With just a bit of effort put towards pulling the mind back to the object of focus and actions we are doing, we can move through the rest of the day without problems and without having to make any obvious effort at all to experience hope, peace, and fulfillment in life!