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39 Exercises to Help You Create Calm
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39 Exercises to Help You Create Calm

From Stress to Smiles
Created byBruce McIntyre
Last updated 1/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • To instill the practice of creating calm through brief daily exercises.
  • To engage in personal reflection through ecumenical prayers and blessings.
  • To practice guided meditations that encourage positive cognition.
  • To delve into deeper contemplations to nurture constructive shifts in thinking.

Course content

4 sections • 43 lectures • 1h 45m total length
  • Introduction2:33

    Welcome to 39 Exercises for Creating Calm. If you are experiencing angst, lean in to these guided exercises. If you find that you resonate with and would return to 3 to 10 of them, you will have created a crucial set of new tools for your toolbox.

  • Exercise for Lecture #1
  • Reconciled Life Perspective2:38

    A reconciled life perspective refers to the extent to which have reconciled their spiritual and religious beliefs with adverse events in their lives.

  • Working towards a Reconciled Life Perspective
  • Relational Spirituality1:42

    Relational spirituality suggests that strengthening one's relatedness to other people and other sources of interest produces joy and vitality.

  • Assignment 3: Considering Relational Spirituality

Requirements

  • There are no requirements or prerequisites.

Description

The 39 exercises in this course will set you on a path to navigate through angst and begin adding useful tools to your toolbox.

Navigating adversity can be taxing on the soul. Whether financial, relational, or vocational in nature, you will be pressed to your limits at some point. Living with a chronic illness is frustrating. It makes you mad and makes you sad. So, too, does the path of caregiving. No matter the source of your stress, you will find that this course guides you towards renewed calm.

If you equip yourself with a full toolbox of spiritual exercises, you can create good habits that sustain you through hardship. While some tools require significant effort, most of the prayers, exercises and contemplations in this course offer easy access. With practice, you will find yourself revisiting your favorites again and again.

Arranged in 3 sections, you will work through 12 ecumenical prayers and blessings followed by 12 focused exercises for stress reduction. The final section guides you through 15 deeper reflections to manage anxiety and nurture peace. As you engage in and practice these exercises, you will create more calm in your life. From stress to smiles, let's begin a journey worth taking!

Who this course is for:

  • The intended learner for this course has a desire to practice brief exercises to create inner calm.