Permanent Zen Blog: How To Be More Spontaneous In Your Daily Life
What does it mean to be spontaneous and why is it important?
Being spontaneous is defined as:
spontaneous
acting in accordance with or resulting from a natural feeling, impulse, or tendency, without any constraint, effort, or premeditation
The main and activating ingredient of cultivating fun, flow and humor is spontaneity. When we engage in spontaneity, we are engaging our entire energy field, we are transcending worry & fear and we are cultivating willpower. Stress & anxiety can’t live where spontaneity exists.
Here are some tips on how to continually create and maintain this powerful state.
Follow your intuition
You will not be more spontaneous if you do not learn to listen to and trust your intuition. Paying attention to that little voice that inclines you towards something or someone at certain moments, without any reason, is important. What other way is there to get to know yourself and get in contact with your personality?
Your intuition is a combination of perceptions, previous information, and experiences. It is the first thing that comes to your mind, before any judgments and assessments appear, accompanied by fears or false beliefs.
Although it is not easy to listen to your intuition because you aren’t used to it, don’t give up. Try to trust yourself a little more, stop beating around the bush and let yourself go. Now, be very careful with those decisions and actions that involve significant risks. Sometimes, reflecting on what will happen is also necessary.
Leave your comfort zone
Getting out of your comfort zone means doing things you would not normally do. Go to places you don’t know, change your routine in some way, disconnect from your phone for an afternoon … Just launch yourself into the unknown to leave comfort behind and continue discovering yourself in some way.
Also, with adventures away from your comfort zone, everything that makes you face your fears has a special value. You don’t have to go bungee jumping or skydiving, but simply decide to do something that you have never done out of fear, for example giving your opinion in your group of friends, instead of waiting for everyone to speak and saying what everyone else does. Dare to put yourself out there!
Take verbal risks
Time to bring in the verbal, relationship side of the equation. Like or unlike your friends and colleagues who blurt out all the time, you want to bring this spontaneity to your speech – be less cautious and censoring. Again, small steps. Raise your hand and speak up at a staff meeting when something tugs at you when you would normally let it go. Tell your partner what is bothering you when your tendency is to say “it’s no big deal”.
And even if you can’t think on your feet in that staff meeting or with your partner, and need time to process, that’s fine. Two hours later send an email to your supervisor or text your partner about how you feel. But do it more spontaneously – don't worry about getting it right, don’t obsessively edit; feeling that edge of risk lets you know your expanding your comfort zone.
And that’s the goal here – to expand that comfort zone, feel more comfortable with taking risks, develop confidence in your gut reactions rather than that constantly relying on your more cautious rational mind. As you do and find out that what you fear will happen doesn't, your own confidence will increase, and your trust on your gut reactions and the bigger world will grow. It’s about practice.
Clear your agenda to be more spontaneous
One of the biggest limitations to being spontaneous is having a strict and tight schedule. We might feel that we need to fill our schedule, so we organize it so that we don’t have a single hour free. And if there is one, we look for a way to fill it as soon as possible.
The road to spontaneity starts with reorganizing our schedule. The first thing you should do is always leave some free spaces and above all, make sure that these don’t get filled up with something else. Each week you should also change the times that you are free.
Another recommendation is to reflect on the importance of the commitments you have scheduled. Is it possible to get rid of any of them? Could a certain task be given to another person? Is it possible to leave a day completely free? In principle you may feel some discomfort, but if you want to be more spontaneous, this will help you achieve it.
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