10 Graces You Can Give Yourself to Boost Your Mind and Spirit

We all need grace because we’re all human. Some of us show grace to others easily, but we’re tough on ourselves. You’ll navigate life with less friction if you give yourself grace. The suggestions we offer today can feel natural after you try them for a few weeks.

Practice Appreciation

Our world trains feelings of scarcity and expectation into our psyches. Have you noticed that those two elements usually generate disappointment?

To boost your mind and spirit, try focusing on appreciation. After all, some things go our way, and some things don’t. If we appreciate the things in life that go our way, we’re likelier to enjoy our lives. To move your mindset from expectation to appreciation

Show gratitude universally
Celebrate others
Be generous
Focus on long-term benefits
Be willing to learn

Try Not to Judge Folks

When we judge other people’s decisions and actions, we change our own moods. Stress, anxiety and depression can result. If you want to feel lighter in life, ask yourself whether you judge other people.

Next, ask whether you judge yourself. Judginess may have been trained into you by an elder. Even if you do not judge others, you might be harsh on yourself. Give your mind and spirit the grace of a judgment-free existence.

If you develop your capacity for appreciation, you’ll find yourself rarely judging folks.

Commit to Your Own Path

If you want to feel more alive, commit to a life path that feels authentic. What feels authentic to you? Each person’s answer will be unique, so give yourself ample space to explore the question.

Pursue Something You Love

Do you have a passion in life? Are you pursuing it? If you began pursuing your passion, imagine how natural your spirit would feel:

Artists should create art.
Singers need to sing.
Writers should write.
Poets exist to make sense of meters.
Rappers breathe to connect syllables.

What makes your spirit sing? If your gift does not rest in your voice, perhaps it’s within your hands. You may have incredible carpentry skills, or you may be stellar at designing interiors.

Whatever fulfills you, pursue it. Even if it cannot be your career, do not backburner your passion. It can make your life feel rich and authentic.

Make Time for Simple Pleasures

Lightness arrives within us when we create room in our lives for those classic little things. If there’s something simple you miss, give yourself the grace of putting it back in your life. Here are some examples to get you started:

Reading a delightful book
Game night
Baking
A walk to the ice cream parlor with your favorite companion

Get Comfortable With Discomfort

We all seek comfort, but it’s possible to be too comfortable. A life with no discomfort would be boring. After all, growth happens when we are in new, uncomfortable situations.

If you want to learn new skills, meet new people, travel to places you’ve never visited or do other new things, give yourself the grace of getting comfortable with feeling a bit uncomfortable.

Invest in Rest

Our society values a hectic lifestyle that causes lost sleep. But good sleep is a grace you can give yourself. Even if you cannot sleep a full eight hours nightly, try to get on a consistent sleep routine that includes a bedtime. Research from multiple studies has shown that consistent sleep can

Enhance mood
Lower heart-disease risk
Reduce type-two diabetes risk
Improve concentration
Boost immunity

Forgive Yourself

If you have a tendency to hold onto your mistakes, learn to let them go. Life is best lived in the present. When we struggle to forgive ourselves, we’re stuck in the past.

Our mistakes are learning experiences. They are not reasons to beat down our spirits.

You deserve forgiveness. Give yourself that grace.

Forgive Others

By forgiving others, we move forward in life. We remove any control their past actions can have over us.

Forgiving someone who has harmed you offers grace to that person, but it also gives you grace.

Reset Your Brain’s Clock

This one is our specialty at WIN-TMS. If you are dealing with recurring depression, give yourself the grace of transcranial magnetic stimulation. That gentle, 20-minute procedure resets your brain’s motor cortex when repeated daily over several weeks at our local clinics.

To learn more about our modern answer for treatment-resistant depression, contact us today.