Calm Quilt Block — Women’s Health & Wellness Quilt
“Calmness is the cradle of power.”― Josiah Gilbert Holland
How can tapping in your calmness as a woman strengthen your life? Feeling calm & steady during times of stress can be helpful.
“Its all about finding the calm in the chaos.” ― Donna Karan
Life can get a bit stressful. We might have times that we feel worried or experience anxiety. Sometimes it can get tricky finding peace.
There are a few things we can focus on to stand steady & let the winds blow by. Anxiety or worry is built into our body system to motivate us into action if there is a threat. If a caveman saw a saber tooth tiger their body would immediately be put into action to get away fast. Our body can create real sensations like sweaty palms when stressed, increase in your heart rate, queasiness, or things like faster breathing.
We don’t live in the caveman age and sometimes our anxiety, fears or worry can be too much. These feelings can sometimes get in the way of our ordinary lives. Finding a way through the stress with calm, peace & steadiness can help.
Clearly Identify Your Worry
Take a moment to step back and clearly identify your worry. By identifying what is truly worrying, you can then create an action plan. For instance, if I am worried about getting my taxes done, then my worry can motivate me to get it done.
Create an Action Plan
By creating an action plan to get my taxes done, I will feel less overwhelm. I can then focus on smaller aspects of the getting my taxes done that is manageable in bite size pieces. When getting some of the smaller bite size tasks done, I can diminish my overwhelm knowing I am making progress towards my bigger goal.
Stay Optimistic
When feeling worried or fearful, we can focus on optimistic aspects of our life or circumstances. The optimism will help us look past our worry. In the taxes setting, I can say to myself, how wonderful it is to have income to report. A country to live in where I can enjoy feelings of being safety with police and traffic lights. hehe…
We can also change negative mind scripts into positive ones. So instead of saying, “I’m never going to get my taxes done”. Say, “I can do hard things in bite size pieces. I will let my anxiety motivate me to get it done.”
“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.”– Walter Anderson
Slow & Steady Wins
Remember slow & steady wins the race. We can’t always find immediate solutions for our worries but we can slowly take steps towards where we want to be. Take comfort in each step and remind yourself you are doing your very best.
Gather Information
When feeling worried, we can gather information to help find solutions.
Rest and take care of YOU
Running away from a saber tooth tiger can be exhausting along with just regular stresses in our daily lives. Be sure to recognize that you need rest. Take care of yourself during times of worry or stress.
Enjoy Nature
Nature can be nurturing when going through stress and feed your soul.
Ducks in a Row
My life has had lots of stressful events. I find if I keep my regular life routine in order, that I can handle that extra ordinary things that come my way. I try to live a life where I take care of necessary things including myself so I not completely melt when some fast curve balls fly my way.
By understanding our power sources, we can easily tap into them when we need to. Instead of struggling, we can immediately draw from the power or strength sources that sing to our soul sustaining us during difficult times.
Radiate Peace & Calmness
One of the greatest gifts that we can share with our loved ones is radiating peace and calmness during tricky times. We teach our families not just through what we say but also by how we live our lives. I tried to quilt the calm quilt block showing the true trimmed sails in the water.
The Calm Quilt Block for the Live Well Live Strong Quilt appears to be a ship with four steady sails.
The Calm Quilt Block is the 17th week on our Live Well Live Strong Quilt Sew Along! Remember you can join in on the sew along anytime or make the Live Well Live Strong Quilt at your own pace.
Enjoy your Calm Live Well Live Strong Quilt worksheets to reflect on the things that you might want to include in your life.
Download your Calm Worksheets below and work through exercises as you focus on making your Calm Quilt Block this week!
If you haven’t yet, you can join in anytime on the Live Well Live Strong Quilt Sew Along! Purchase your downloadable pattern right now!
We may need to do things like releasing excess baggage or guilt in our life so we are not held down. Keeping excess baggage can interfere with our ability to tap into our power sources. Think about things that may be a hindrance to feeling strength or power from a source. Personal self reflection is important in the process of learning to tap into power sources or feeling empowerment. Reexamine and challenge your thought processes that may feel safe but interfere with the best interests of yourself or loved ones.
Calm Challenges could include:
- Identify what is causing you stress, anxiety or worry.
- Keep an optimistic approach as you go through a stressful time.
- Change negative mind scripts to positive mind scripts during worrying times.
- Allow your anxiety to motivate you to break a large task into smaller ones.
- Get plenty of rest & tap into the beauty of nature to heal your heart during worrisome times.
Customize your own personal challenge. Let’s not overwhelm ourselves. Take tiny steps towards a good thing. Reward yourself with a quiet moment closing your eyes; feel good about yourself including your body & mind. Remember slow and steady wins the race and is sustainable.
Remember to always keep going. Keep moving forward. Have confidence that with time & healthy spaces you can heal and feel the calmness that is natural to your spirit. Develop hope that when you fill your mind and spirit with positive things you will have the strength to get through it in the best possible form.
Share a photo of your completed Calm Quilt Block in the Everyone Can Quilt Facebook Group or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stitchesquilting/ and use the hashtag #livewelllivestrongquilt. If you feel comfortable share a photo that represents a positive step in an Genuine Challenge. Let’s inspire each other!
Follow Stitches Quilting on Facebook, Instagram & YouTube for reminders to find the positive in life. Engage and make comments that can lift and empower others to a positive space. Comments on other people’s posts in the Live Well Live Strong Sew Along to encourage them too.
| The Live Well Live Strong Quilt includes 26 quilt blocks focused on Women’s Health in Wellness. The ideal form is to focus & build on each one of these topics is one at a time. Slow and steady growth is sustainable. Join the sew along at any time making each block and focusing on your own growth. |
Next week’s block is the Choices Quilt Block! If you haven’t yet, purchase your Live Well Live Strong Quilt Pattern! Purchase Your Pattern HERE!
The new Calm video will be available below on June 4th!
Many happy wishes for a week filled with Steady Peace & Calmness!
Live Well Live Strong! XOXO! Deanna
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