Isolation and Loneliness are two major players in the world of mental well being. They can lead to depression without you even noticing sometimes. How can you combat this in a world where we spend a huge amount of time online and in front of a computer?
The first thing you can do is to bring to the surface your thoughts and feelings about your Inner Circle and then making changes that will support you in your connections and relationships.
Who is in your inner circle and are you nurturing those relationships?
Here is a simple and peaceful exercise to do to discover who is in your inner circle and what you are feeling about those relationships:
- Make a list of all the people who are in your life currently that you care about. This might be the best friend you only see twice a year but who is still on the end of the phone when you need them, it could be your family members, the person you have never met but who inspires you with their wisdom and their way of being...anyone who is a feature in your life..the good and the bad!
- Go outside and choose a stone, a leaf, a twig....anything you like from nature that you feel in some way represents a person in your inner circle. Think carefully about your choices but don't analyse them at this stage.
- Choose a representation of YOU - a stone that somehow calls to you, a shell, a seed, a flower...whatever you like.
- Once you have collected all your representations bring them back inside. Place the representation of you in the centre of an imaginary circle.
- Place all the other 'people' around you wherever you feel is right to put them without thinking too much about it.
Write down all your observations under their name on a piece of paper.
Now take a look at 'you', examine your representation of yourself in the same way and note down your observations.
Lastly, examine where you have chosen to place each item in relation to you and in relation to each other. What do you notice? Have you placed some very close to you and others further away? Is one object blocking the path of another? What might that mean? Are there some who were placed further away than you consciously might have expected? Are some closer to one another than they are to you?
Really LOOK, really examine what you have represented here because it will tell you a lot about how you are feeling about your inner circle.
Did you discover that you have more people close to you than you thought?
Who would you like to bring closer to you?
Who is so close that they are suffocating?
Who is missing from the inner circle that you would like to be there?
Move things around and see how it feels...bring certain 'people' closer and move others further away. How does it feel now? Better? Less comfortable than you expected? Write down all your observations.
Move everyone into the places that feel the most comfortable to you, the inner circle that you really desire to have. Bring in more objects to represent people you haven't even met yet and place them where you would like them to be.
This is your Inner Circle Goal. Take a photo of it and make a note of the changes that you would like to bring about.
Once you have played with this idea for a while start to think of ways that you can achieve your ideal inner circle by writing down all the actions that would bring you closer to this...as many as you can...make a huge list of ideas!
Each day try to take an action that will bring your ideal inner circle to life.
This is a really powerful exercise and I use this and more in my Positive Potential 10 week programme. If you would like a FREE 30 min session with me to discover more about yourself and how to free yourself from stressful thoughts and feelings please book a time to have your session here
Love Nova xxx
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