5 Tips for Staying Grounded and Centered During Post-Pandemic Travels

While many of us are excited to travel again, life continues to unfold with uncertainty. Rules keep changing. It’s hard to know what will arise.

This is a perfect opportunity for mindfulness in action.

What do I mean by that?

Mindfulness practice helps you to stay grounded in the present, to experience what is, as it is, without preconception.

To avoid disappointment and related stress, it’s important to manage expectations. Most stress occurs when we fight in our mind with reality. In other words, we desire things to be different from what they are and we become angry.

If we practice keeping an open mind, free of too many expectations, then we can more easily roll with the punches, so to speak.

How to Invite Mindfulness into Your Travels

Remind yourself that life is different now. Expect delays, expect requirements like masking, social distancing and hand disinfecting. Then, if those rules are not in place, you can enjoy fewer restrictions.

Better to expect restrictions and be pleasantly surprised rather than to expect no restrictions and then be angered by requirements.