How You Can Cultivate Calm While Working Towards Your Goals

No matter how we want to live a peaceful and perfect life, there are always external factors that will disrupt our pursuit of inner balance. But that doesn’t mean you cannot control what happens in your mind, heart, and how you react to certain happenings.

A study showed that the app called “Calm” does indeed reduce stress levels in college students. Moreover, when stress is reduced in a person, they tend to be more productive while working towards their goals.

This fact alone could benefit aspiring and current pro cheerleaders that go through so much in their everyday lives by improving their focus. Yet, the app isn’t the only source of calmness exercises in the world.

There are also other simple practices used by life coaches that you can follow to return to a state of balance when things start to go crazy. Here’s a list of those practices.

1. Body Calm - Stay neutral

Neutrality does not mean you shouldn’t care. It means being in the middle of things and not allowing your emotions to be swayed by what’s happening around you. A good example of this in the life of a pro cheer community member is being over-excited for a major event the next day.

By staying neutral through relaxing your body and following deep breathing patterns, you won’t feel stressed or worked up. This will balance your energy output as you prepare your bag with the necessities before the auditions or your first live arena performance.

2. Mind Calm - Bring your awareness to the better moments

Once stress becomes a daily part of our lives, we automatically drown in troubling thoughts at the slight hint of a problem. Have you ever found yourself brooding due to a minor issue like a negative social media reaction?

If this happens to you often, then you should make a habit of remembering your happy experiences. This is a strategy that will revert you back to a focused and calm state to fulfill your tasks for pro cheer fitness.

The best part of recalling joyful memories is that they’re effective wherever you go, at any time of the day, and no matter what you're currently doing.

3. Emotional Calm - Connect to others in a positive way

Social connection is one of the greatest needs of humans. It’s next to food and shelter. Sometimes we feel lonely and it makes us anxious or stressed. Make time every day to message someone you love or share a deep relationship with.

It doesn’t take much and both of you can benefit from a simple message that displays affection. If you do this at the start of your day, you could either be happy or calm for the following hours until your bedtime.

This type of feeling is a great source of motivation to get all your audition prep tasks done.

4. Spiritual Calm - Make a habit of paying attention to your reactions

Before you make any reactions to stressful stimuli, ask yourself these questions first: “Should you react this way? Do you even really want to? How does this benefit your overall well-being?” By listening to your mind first before your heart and body, you can quickly take a step back.

This allows you to prevent yourself from indulging in self-destructive behaviors that would jeopardize your pro cheer efforts. All in all, you can protect the integrity of your spirit and foster simultaneous happy thoughts, positive emotions, and make consecutive good decisions.

Stress is part of our lives. But you mustn’t let it overwhelm you. You should remember that when it takes hold of your life, it can breed a lot of negativity that would turn your daily experience into a rabbit hole of misery and disarray.

As early as possible, find calmness in everything and even before anything happens. Following these four habits for a good start. Once you master the art of cultivating calmness, you’ll have better control over your focus in achieving your pro cheer goals.

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