Health & wellbeing – The Ray Journey

How Journaling, Intentions, Oracle Cards, And Crystals Can Enhance Your Meditation

In this guest post, by Cheryl Tobin, you will learn how to practice 4 different activities that will help deepen your meditation experience. These practices will inspire and motivate you and will help you reach mental clarity.

The practice of meditation is multilayered. Regardless of their experience, practitioners are always given the opportunity to select their level of depth in which they immerse themselves. This article will add another layer to meditating by incorporating complimentary activities prior to and following your practice.

5 Different Techniques To Help You Get The Most Out Of Your Meditation Session

If you consider adding meditation to your daily routine, in this guest post, by Cheryl Tobin, you will learn how to incorporate some techniques into your practice to enhance your experience and get the most out of your session.

Today is the first day of a new month and a new round of #TheRayChallenge! (If you’re not in yet, you can still join us here.)

This month you will be challenged to incorporate meditation into your daily routine. There are many benefits to practicing meditation regularly, including reducing stress & anxiety, promoting mental clarity & focus, as well as increasing your self awareness. We could all use a little bit more of these benefits in our lives, so let’s get started!

A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation: How, Why, And When You Should Meditate

If you’ve been feeling stressed out lately, or you’re always suffering a flood of thoughts all night, keeping you from falling asleep, or if you tend to get distracted easily, in this guest post, by Cheryl Tobin, you will learn how meditation can help you eliminate all those things, finding clarity and peace of mind, which in turn will help you become more relaxed, focused, and productive.

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How many moments in the span of your day do you wish you could press pause, even for just a moment? I imagine you have, on more than one occasion. So, why don’t you just stop?

Believe it or not, this option is available to you through practicing meditation. And I bet that, over time, doing so will enhance your mental health, restore your energy, and elevate your creative processes.

A Ray Of Happiness: 13 Things You Can Do To Instantly Feel Good And Uplift Your Mood

Our mood and state of mind affect everything in our day. If you’re feeling down or if you’ve ever been stuck in a bad mood, these 13 things can help lift up your mood and take you back to that happy place!

Disclaimer: Please do not take any of the suggestions in this post as a claim for a quick fix to a diagnosed depressive disorder or any other mental illness.

When we are not in a good mood, or rather when we are in a bad mood, it affects everything from our interactions with other people to our productivity and ability to focus. This is why you need to have a backup plan for when things go south, you should have a go-to list of things to help you lift yourself up and get back to work and carry on with your responsibilities.

A Sneak Peak Into My Experience With Mental Illness And One Advice I Want To Give

Just getting a little bit personal in this one because I felt it was important for me to say those words. And I hope they are what someone needed to read today.

If you follow this blog, then you probably know that I don’t discuss personal topics here. And while general health and wellbeing is one of the things I blog about every now and then, mental illness is not exactly the focus of this blog. There are far better and more in-depth blogs that you can visit to read on mental illness issues.

However, I chose to share this post here today due to some recent encounter with a friend. I felt obliged to put my thoughts out there, because otherwise it will just feel wrong.

The Science Of Motivation: Why We Lose It And Where To Find it (17 Tricks To Motivate Yourself)

What happens in your brain when you are motivated? Why do you lose motivation? How can you become more motivated? Learn about motivation and how to motivate yourself in this post.

Have you ever felt unmotivated to do a certain task? I think I can safely say that most of us go through days where we have to get something done, but we just don’t feel like doing it for some reason.

Often times I’d start working on a project and then halfway through I don’t feel like working on it anymore. Sometimes writing these blog posts becomes a heavy task that I dread doing. Even though I love my blog and I chose to create it and I had a plan in mind when I did.

10 Different Ways Your Body Suffers When You Don’t Drink Enough Water

If you have trouble drinking enough water every day, maybe reading this article and learning about the damage dehydration can cause to your body would work as the push you needed to start drinking more water today.

Drinking water has been an issue for me most of my life. Where I live, it’s practically summer most of the year, and with this hot weather I could honestly spend an entire week and all the water I would consume would not pass the 350 ml mark.

You can imagine how much water I would drink in winter.

And as a result, I suffered from a lot of the things mentioned below on this list due to many years of dehydration. Some of them I still suffer through now.

The Science Of Creativity And How To Fight A Creative Block

Can you become more creative? How does your brain create things? What is a creative block and how do you fight it? If you use creativity in any aspect of your life, then these are questions you might want to have the answer to.

Creativity is not only about art. We use creativity almost everyday in our life. And probably in every business out there, creativity is one of the main requirements. In order to be successful in any field you have got to be creative.

But what is creativity and how can you be creative?

Let’s find out.