Hello!
I'm not sure if anyone noticed but I went AWOL last week. A lot was going on and I was super stressed and tired so I took an impromptu break. Honestly, I've had a pretty bad Monday and I'm not feeling amazing. Moods are weird. I hate being an adult.
Anyway. I don't know if there's a post about this already but I'm too tired to check so I'm sorry. If I find one later, I'll delete this one.
How do you all help your mental health?
My go to thing is watching or listening to ASMR, I think. I feel like I mostly just fumble through life and every so often I somehow make myself feel better on a fluke. I don't know.
One of the most important mental health preservation methods I have learned is to do one thing at a time, one day at a time, one heart beat at a time. I have come to treasure the present moment as the firm ground from which to grow, to heal and to make a difference.
Hello,Rachel,awesome seeing you.
What mainly helps me are realizations.
Life simply Sucks.Sometimes.No matter how many gratitude journals one does,they cannot escape what they truly feel and think.Gratitude is temporary band aid on permanent solution.What helps with this is to simply understand which part causes mental health bubble to burst?Health?Wealth(least in my case its wealth)?Relationships?Character?Once that's discover,can give one something to work towards and better life around.Least for me.As when I discover wealth keeps my mental health down,I know what to focus on is related to wealth part of my life.Same with health,character, and relationships.
Understand were adults because were told to be.How many years does one live to be a kid?Then,be an adult?Finally,elder?I'll let you Covers play amongst yourselves.Poin being,range of being a competent is very short.Yet as one grows older,competence is still question.What helps me is to realize we have always been kids.Mean,have we really grown out of college years,because were told to grow out?Or still same college kids with piece of paper that really mean nothing in nest 10 to 20 years?For the moment,yes it will.Lifetime?I'll let you all be judge of that.
Environment is destiny and what one focuses on expands.Least thats what my virtual mentors told me.Knowing your 1 percent,specifically,one you talk to,plays huge role in health.Why do I keep coming here?Covers keeps me sane.Least until I start traveling,sanity may increase.Being around people(especially Covers),helps,if you chose them to be around,they will be around.You make the effort to reach out.Since everyone wants to express,sometimes,they don't.However,when they're in a ,dare I say,safe space,they can express what they've been yearning for.For me,environments are stages,movie theaters and coffee shops,specifically Starbucks.Because i love being environments support actors,poets and film industry.
In service of some kind.Jn my case,today,I didn't want to go to work.However,I do like the job,and being in service shifts energy into helping others.Do I hate customers?Yes.Do I hate 99.99999999999% of humanity?Yes.Do the one percent I chose to talk to deserve to be hated???No,otherwise I wouldn't be talking to you,along with lovely Covers.Talking it out helps,because in doing so,chance to understand yourself is amplify by speaking to someone.Who can understand what one going through.Makes one better,and also feel validated.
I sing and dance like madman.Put on some calming music.Really any music and workout,any kind of workout go ease mind.Any workout that pushes body to breaking point.Rachel from future will thank you later.
Laying in bed,and writing poetry.If theres any poetry project your working on,incredible.Focusing on that would take mind all of things,least for that section of day.
Long walks.Anywhere really.Be mindful of where you are though.
Just want to end by saying we are here for you.However you like to reach out, feel free too.Mental health is really real,and I like to believe life gets better with time,patience and persistence.
Whatever you believe in,God,Universe,Higher Source,mainly because YOU believe in them,understanding how they work causes Mental Health to be better.
My physical friends believe in God,and base on my times with them,God is their foundation.
Perhaps that's what one may need to help with mental health.Foundation.Remembering why they're here and know what they will do with their why.As cliché as this sounds,it works.Here doesn't always mean life.Here,can be Cove.Your house.
My WHY for being at Cove at 11:44 P.M of this time is to answer question.With my time,I will help someone who allow me to be apart of 1st NaPoWriMo of poetry cove,which happen this year.And you were apart of that,so thank you.Point being,mental health issues will stay.Our ways going about it will change,depending on who were with.Having said that,you are in great company and appreciate having you around,Rachel.
Get well soon.
Yeah I think @Adam Gary has a good point. Many of us feel a bit down at this time of year, in the northern hemisphere at least The days are shorter and the temperature goes down.
I think we have to remind ourselves that it's normal to feel sad and blue sometimes. It's impossible to be happy all the time.
In traditional Chinese belief autumn I'd associated with metal and the idea of contraction, hardening. I think this is a useful way of dealing with the blues. If we look around at the things we need, emotional support, good food, friends, nice clothes, pastimes etc and start to gather them in, rather like some animals gather food to see them through winter.
I thinks it's a nice analogy.
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I think @Matthew Hutchins posted about burn out and such. I have a guest class on this in the Online Academy. But meditation and expectation/emotional management is important for me! It's tough though! We got to be there for each other as Covers and keep everyone's morale up! especially as winter and autumn creep up on us!