6 Calming Techniques to Practice Daily
We all need to practice calming techniques.
Besides, you know living with chronic stress is detrimental to your health and can ultimately kill you.
Not only that, but chronic stress has a way of rewriting the brain.
Certain regions get used to overstimulation and other areas shrink.
Your brain gets accustomed to living in a constant state of worry and fear.
We know, sounds heavy, but it’s true, and this is why you’ve got to find helpful ways to increase your inner peace.
You probably already have some techniques you use to keep the zen flowing in your life, but a few more can’t hurt.
Here are six techniques you can use to keep yourself calm and collected.
1. Calming Techniques: Get Acquainted with CBD 
Let’s start with the big one—CBD.
If you’re not familiar with CBD, it’s non-psychoactive, and it provides therapeutic benefits for various health concerns, including stress, anxiety, pain, and much more.
CBD works in unison with the endocannabinoid system and the central nervous system to keep the body balanced and reduce stress all at the same time.
There are many products to choose from such as gummies, tinctures, vape pens, and capsules.
But in all honesty, you get an all in one sitting with CBD hemp capsules.
You don’t have to mess around with measurements and keep taking it back to back.
Capsules have a higher concentration per pill, so you can carry on with your day while CBD works silently in the background, keeping you grounded, calm, and focused.
2. Understand the Power of Now
Once you stop thinking about what you could have done better in the past, or things that could go wrong in the future, you’ll be on the right track to living a life with reduced stress levels.
If this sounds like something you struggle with, Eckhart Tolle has a good book called The Power of Now.
This book touches on different ways you can implement this practice in your everyday life.
It’s sold over two million copies worldwide and translated into 30 other languages—it must be pretty good!
3. Meditation Goes Further Than You Think
You don’t need to be a yoga guru to take advantage of the benefits mediation can provide.
Many of us are intimidated by the whole meditation process. We fear we’re not doing it right, and nothing happens, so we’re “wasting our time.”
But, meditation isn’t a sprint; it’s a marathon.
It’s a practice that takes time to build and perfect. However, once you get it right, you’ll experience increased self-awareness, improved mood, increased patience, and a more optimistic state of mind overall.
4. Listen to Music
Listening to music has more benefits than you realize. It’s no surprise most of us feel better when we listen to music.
Music works to boost mood, decrease depression, reduces stress, improves memory, and much more.
Music can slow the pulse and heart rate, lower blood pressure, and reduce stress hormones on a physiological level.
Oh, and let’s not forget to mention listening to music creates the process of neurogenesis, which is the brain’s ability to produce new neurons.
Additionally, you can use music to accommodate the mood you’re trying to achieve.
If you’re looking to relax, put some calming music on, and vice versa.
5. Put Your Feelings on Paper
If music is a form of therapy and stress relief, so is writing.
It’s beneficial to let your emotions flow onto paper sometimes.
Some of us have a hard time verbally expressing our emotions, and this is the best alternative. This is something you can do every day.
Still, it’s also beneficial to write when you’re stressed, angry, or depressed because it’s an outlet for those negative emotions.
You’ve got to get it out because, as we discussed, it harms you when it stays in the body.
Not only is journaling helpful for stress reduction, but it also enhances creativity.
6. Call Up a Friend
We all have friends we call up whether it’s good, bad, or non-important. Sometimes we need to ring a friend and talk it out.
It’s part of friendship and being a good friend, right?
Friends have a way of making us laugh and taking our minds off whatever brought us down in the first place.
But be careful, there’s a fine line between calling a friend to vent occasionally and being an energy vampire—don’t make it a habit.
It’s not fair to your friends.
Ready for a New Outlook on Life?
These are a few ways you can start to live with less stress and more happiness.
It takes the proper mindset to be aware of the missteps you make and correct them, mainly because it’s about you and your future happiness.
It’s hard to be honest enough with ourselves at times to know we need to make real changes.
