How to Find Some Inner Peace and Beauty Amidst Chaos
We all live busy lives whether that life includes kids and staying at home with them or a full-time job that you’re communicating to daily or going to school and getting your course work done. Everyone has a life, a story, and tasks that they do daily to get through their day. It can be beautiful chaos at times where as other days it can be incredibly difficult. I am, ever, always an optimist. Even during some of the worst times, I always tell myself that this, too, shall come to pass. Because we can’t have the good times without the bad. Life would be boring if it was always good, all the time. Hell, we’d be here sitting around ranting because nothing bad ever happened if it was sunshine, rainbows, and unicorns daily. Sometimes the bad times add a little spice! And most days, if you’re lucky, you can look back on the bad times and laugh about how worried or horrible you felt at that point in your life and how silly you were for letting it get you down.
Lately, chaos is the order of the day.
But I have good news for you.
The world is not over, the world is not ending, and the zombies are not roaming the earth in terrifying hordes. And you know what? You’re going to be just fine.
But as chaos reigns supreme at the moment here a few ways to find some inner peace and beauty amidst it all.
Game On!
First off, do yourself a favor, visit Steam.com. Buy yourself a new game and get lost in it. Not a gamer? No problem. Buy yourself a game anyway! Completely zoning out while playing some new adventure or RPG is a great way to leave your troubles behind and give yourself a little me time.
Binge
Stranger Things, Coffee Prince, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Supernatural, find something you love on demand and binge it. Getting caught up in your favorite shows or some new show or drama is a great way to not only relax but just to tune out the chaotic buzz around you. Better still? Do it with your boyfriend, or your girlfriend, or your best friend. My recs? Check out Tom Hardy in Taboo it’s oddly compelling plus he sure does walk around a lot without pants on.
Take a Bath
I like to turn off all the lights in my bathroom, light a single candle, and play the Pride and Prejudice Soundtrack while dunking half my head under warm water (just to my lips and upper ears). There’s something terribly soothing about listening to classical music when half your head is submerged under water. And no, you can’t tell me you aren’t a bath person. We aren’t doing this to gt clean, relaxing is the word of the day here. Go to Lush, pick up a bath bomb, toss it in, run some warm water, and just sit there with your eyes closed listening to your favorite music. Believe me, you’ll feel like a wet, relaxed noodle after 10 minutes of soaking.
Retail Therapy
Most people will tell you not to shop when you’re depressed but I say do it. Don’t go horribly crazy and buy everything in sight! But take a $10, $20, or $50 bill and blow it on something pretty. Believe me, buying something nice for yourself goes a long way to making you feel a little cheerier!
Read!
I’m avid reader, total book worm as far back as I can remember. I remember at like 11 I was carrying around my Christopher Pike, RL Stine, and Sweet Valley High books like they were great philosophical works of literature. Remember the Scholastic book club? I’d beg my parents for money every other week to buy books. My tastes evolve constantly when it comes to reading. Manga, comics, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Kristen Ashley, you name, I’ll read it! Grab yourself a new genre by a new author and get caught up in another world and a great adventure. Read a cute manga that will make you laugh and sigh. Or honestly, get yourself a copy of your favorite magazine and immerse yourself in silly how to guides, new beauty buys, and fashion! Believe me, reading Teen Vogue sometimes totally relaxes me, laugh all you want. And P.S. I miss YM! Those Say Anything reads were hysterical, fake, but totally made me laugh!
How do you find your inner peace when you’re stressing?
Do share!
P.S. You’re strong, compatible, confident, beautiful, and able to get through all the bad.