Mindfulness Daily Check-In November 7, 2017
Being Overwhelmed!!!!!
Hello everyone- how has your day been? I wanted to focus a bit today on being OVERWHELMED. How many of you experience this feeling? From work? From school/college? From a relationship? 7cups leadership/listener things???Bills/finance? It can go on and on
It is ok you all- it really is. Take a deep breath and exhale knowing we can learn a few mindfulness skills to lower the overwhelmness in our days. Come on lets learn this together 
If anything remember this
R—Recognize Whats Going On Recognizing means consciously acknowledging, in any given moment, the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are affecting us.
A—Allowing: Taking a Life-Giving Pause Allowing means letting the thoughts, emotions, feelings, or sensations we have recognized simply be there.
I—Investigating with Kindness Investigating means calling on our natural curiosity. The desire to know truth, and directing a more focused attention to our present experience. Simply pausing to ask, what is happening inside me?,
N—Natural Loving Awareness Natural loving awareness occurs when identification with the small self is loosened. This practice of non-identification means that our sense of who we are is not fused with any limiting emotions, sensations, or stories.
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Hi Rumple, this is a lovely resource! My day has been pretty good so far, hope yours is the same :)
I can definitely relate to the feeling of being overwhelmed at times, especially when I am stressed. Usually the stress is caused by a lot of work, or if something isn't going right. I usually try to assess the problem and try to figure out why I am stressed and how I can avoid this feeling - mindfulness usually comes into this!
Thank you for the check in
@peppermintlove
HIya Peppermint good to see you here
Im sorry to hear that you feel overwhelmed/stress too. It is like having 2 legs and a head and arms. We all go through it-but its the WAY we PROCESS it all. And for me being overwhelmed/stress is high in my life. But as you said mindfulness so has calmed all this down inside me. Im glad that mindfulness helps you out
@RumpleSteeleSkin I get overwhelmed a lot! School, friends and just everything! And this RAIN technique sounds really helpful! Thank you for this! (And could you guys please tag me in the checkins? )
@Pureriver55
Hello River so great to see you in this check-in Life stress/overwhelmness does creep up on us right. I do hope that the check-ins as well as many of the other forum threads here will give you some more ideas mindfulness can help you. And I just added you to the list. Please do share here or pm me or @soulsings on anything we might can share in this area
@Pureriver55 glad to see you posting in the mindfulness subcommunity. Let me know if you would like links to the session-discussions we do. Or the Mindfulness Video Resource library or see here https://www.7cups.com/home/mindfulness/#resources
@RumpleSteeleSkin great thread even if I do not like rainstorms.
But I am starting to like R A I N and what that means. Thanks for sharing.
@soulsings
HI Souls good to see you here in check-ins I do understand on rain storms scary at times I say
R A I N at first was so very hard for me personally to digest and understand right. I couldn't understand the A part. Allow the experience to just be there,just as it is. Like woooooh no way I needed control of things lol. But over time I saw and learned I am powerless on alot of things I don't have control over. This helped alot. So R A I N I do really like
