How to Find Peace Amid Chaos
By Anna Choi
Chaos often shows up internally. Maybe it’s a dull, throbbing headache, stiff neck, or tight back. Or maybe it’s your constantly running mind that never shuts up, analyzing what happened or what needs to get done the next day right before bedtime. It may be impractical to take time off for a 10-day silent retreat or meditate for an hour, let alone 15 minutes, to release the chaos. Here are three quick, simple ways to find peace in chaos at any moment.
is a major energy center in your body where life is birthed, and it is also known by some as the second chakra. Close your eyes, and relax your mind. Focus your awareness where the vibration is on your energy center. Where your mind goes, energy flows. Energy travels as light, sound, or vibration. This exercise utilizes vibration to help bring your awareness back into your body’s core and center. After 100 or so taps with your fist, suck your belly button in to your spine, like a crunch standing or sitting up. Keep pumping. This is called intestinal exercise. Now that you’ve used vibration through tapping, you’ve brought your brain’s scattered energy from outside yourself back into your body, drawing downward to your gut. Intestinal exercise helps you focus gut and heat your core.
What if you could find peace in any chaos?
Day to day, you might deal with many triggers to your survival brain, unleashing a host of emotions, thoughts, and body sensations each minute that can feel chaotic or out of control.
What does chaos look like to you?
Is it getting stressed scrolling through social media streams on conflict-ridden current events? Getting constantly interrupted by your kids on a video call while sharing space with your partner who is also working from home? Or trying to make many decisions in the face of the unknown?
Moving Meditations
We often focus on exercising our muscles, but what about our organs? With your legs shoulder-width apart, gently use your fists to tap two inches below your belly button, and imagine the vibration going into your core or “gut.” This
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