How a Retreat can Improve Your Mental Clarity

Do you feel like you can’t think clearly about your life? Maybe your current work situation has you feeling overwhelmed and stressed out. Or maybe your personal life is a source of depression and anxiety. There are so many inputs from outside sources on our daily lives that can influence, and sometimes even block our view of ourselves. Social media is one of the biggest contributors to this. We oversaturate our mind with images from the false world of social media, letting it dictate how we should act, dress and think. This can put a damper on your mental clarity and sense of self.

Emotional highs and lows

The sensitive balance of your mental state can easily be influenced by positive or negative things that happen to you. This is normal, and no person can force themselves not to react to a situation. When you live a life of high stress and anxiety you may start to feel that it is just too much to try and keep yourself balanced. This can be because you are not sure how to deal with these emotions or you have a sense of fear and do not have the courage to face them up front. Some people will even choose to ignore these feelings, pushing them down and to the back of their minds, while trying to keep a brave face for the outside world. Others might just give up and give in to feeling depressed day in and day out, thinking that it’s just the way life is.

Supressing your emotions or giving up on trying to keep a healthy mental balance can be extremely harmful to your psyche. It can even cause poor physical health and increase your risk of developing chronic illness. If you are overwhelmed by emotional and mental fatigue your intuition, senses and mind will be dull. You simply won’t be living the best life you can be.

Time to retreat

When you reach this point, it is time to retreat from your life as it currently is, to break the routine and start working through your mental and emotional debris. Retreats are wonderful ways to encourage healing, revitalize and destress. Retreats are usually run by professionals from various areas that can provide counselling, spiritual guidance and mental clarity.

Create self-awareness

Retreats will include some of the following practices to help you recreate self-awareness:

·       Meditation

·       Yoga

·       Art, dance and music therapy

·       Nature walks

·       Breathwork

·       Shadow work

·       Mindfulness training

·       Clean eating

The aim of these activities is to aid you to reflect inward and start experience life in the present moment. When you start reflecting in a self-awareness state through guided meditation sessions and mindfulness counselling, you will find the courage to face the unpleasant emotions and fears hidden deep within yourself that is the source of your mental fog and anxiety. The more you work with yourself within the safe environment of a retreat, the more your mind will become clear. You will be able to set achievable goals for yourself, personal and professional, and be able to make clear decisions about what you should change in your life.

Retreats offer a safe haven, away from our chaotic busy lives, to find our own voice again and declutter our minds from things that can harm the psyche. After a retreat your mind will be clear and reenergised to take on the challenges of everyday life.