Think about experiencing within yourself a safe place of our own, where no one else can enter. In this place, you just be yourself, no need to do anything, to produce, to match any expectations. A clear, comfortable, objective, stable place. It can be real or imaginary, or a mixture of the two.
One of many techniques for this tune is based on focusing on your breathing. Mindfulness is a powerful set of tools that come from Neuroscience, whose goal is to expand the capacity of the brain for attention and emotional regulation. Dr. Dan Siegel: www.drdansiegel.com developed a script, highly scientific and at the same time accessible to train us in this art.
For those who are compulsive, for food or for other things, this training is very important, because it brings us to here and now while also increasing our ability to stay in touch with ourselves.
It’s worth it!
The image: Calvin, and Hobbes in a rare instant of enchantment and tenderness in the life of a hyperactive boy.