Mindful Ways to Build Resilience Part 3 – Clarity

Many factors can derail clarity and your ability to function and maintain residence at a high level.  By skillfully staying clear, engaged, and present, you avoid the daily traps that zap your precious energy, focus, purpose, sense of humor, balance, ability to function effectively, and self-knowing awareness and insight. With clarity, you bring your best foot forward to the table of life.

One way to have mental clarity is to feed the brain nourishing food. If you want to have mental and emotional clarity, you need to feed the brain the kind of nutrition that gets its cognitive machinery in gear.  There are some easy and quick guidelines for accomplishing this goal.  Setting the tone first thing in the morning will help! Resilience comes from taking the best possible care of yourself, so why not start first thing in the morning?

Let’s review some early morning techniques for clarity:

• Eat breakfast! No matter how rushed you are in the morning, a cup of coffee by itself, no matter how lovely and satisfying, doesn’t equate into a complete and nutritious meal.
• Eat some protein in the morning! Eating protein in the morning breaks down into amino acids, which are then used as building blocks for your neurotransmitters.
• To strengthen attention and motivation, eat dairy products such as milk and yogurt. Try nibbling on almonds or sesame seeds. Eat a banana or other fruit.
• Calm and regulate your moods with foods such as a peanut butter sandwich, turkey, and /or cottage cheese.
• Improve your thought and memory functions by eating foods such as eggs, or salmon. Eat a slice of whole wheat bread.
• Eat a serving of protein every two to three hours. This aids the thinking part of the brain focus and concentrate.

Perhaps planning and preparing your food in advance will assist in this.  A hard-boiled egg for example is quick and offers a complete serving of protein. Each time you make the right morning food choices you are increasing your mindful reliance bank, as well as your cognitive abilities.