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Transformative Habits for Mental Health and Anxiety Relief - Your guide to cultivating calm and resilience in the face of life's challenges.
1.1 Mental Health & Anxiety
Hi guys I've had a portion of the most terrible inclination days in a very long time so I thought what else is there to do than make a blog about it and hopefully, someone can benefit from these tips I just feel really tired I feel like I work too much and it just feels like I spend the whole days in front of my computer and on top of that I received a message from my auntie who's in Norway who received a message from some irregular individual in Sweden who said that there was a letter from the graveyard saying that they might remove my mom's grave I mean it has really not been a decent week and tomorrow my significant other is having surgery for his nose and I am super nervous it's just a big week and I don't really know how to get through it but I'm trying these tips myself I've been depressed for many years um and I just really know I need to take very good care of myself when I feel depressive tendencies because if not I risk slipping right back into depression so that is what I'll share with you guys today also, I promise there'll be no face masks to
Help cure your depression in this article so if I'm having a bad day or a bad week as long as I'm not super depressed I really try to do things one thing at a time I get easily overwhelmed when I have a lot of tasks so I have a tendency to just push through it and just do them all very forcefully and with a lot of effort but that really doesn't help my mental well-being because then I end up drained and crying on the floor like I did yesterday night so instead today I'm taking things one by one I started the day very thoroughly I and my husband sat down and we did one thing at a time we did breakfast and I did work then I did one task at work then the other one then I cleaned then he went to work while you get the gist it's just about doing one thing at a time to really feel calmer and don't feel like you're rushing through many different tasks because that just doesn't feel good the next tip might be a bit counterproductive because I know this is about taking care of your mental health but for me what really helps and what's really important to remind myself of is to prioritize my physical health now that does not mean going to the gym
* When I'm feeling like this or doing a really hard
yoga because that just makes me feel even worse so instead it means meeting my very basic physical needs because I tend to push them away when my mental well-being is going down so it's very little things like drinking when I'm thirsty filling my water bottle up instead of saying to oh you don't need it now just keep pushing you can drink in 30 minutes or you don't need to go to the bathroom now just keep pushing through work and you can go to the bathroom when you're done but the thing is that never really happens because we live in this world of just constant to-do lists and tasks coming at us so I think we have to prioritize our well-being in the sense we have to take breaks and for me, that means especially when I'm feeling down it means drinking water going to the bathroom and eat food when I'm hungry and if I wasn't hungry I mean personally that never happens to me but I know there are people who say like oh I don't really get hungry when I'm busy then you're gonna have to take scheduled breaks but personally um yeah that never ever happens to me the third thing that helps my mental
Well-being is having a clean space around me but also the physical act of cleaning now when I feel how things are overwhelming like they are this week and today I also suddenly started to notice everything that was wrong with my house so I notice dust I notice dirt and I also get very very tired and triggered by being on the computer since I spend so much time working in front of a screen so therefore cleaning sort of has a dual purpose because or almost a triple purpose because it allows me to accomplish something that makes I feel a touch more quiet and grounded in light of the fact that I can kind of eliminate that from my mind furthermore it makes my house feel nicer so I don't even have to go there if my anxious tendencies start and thirdly it is a practice of movement that doesn't involve screens the fourth tip that I'm trying to follow me is to turn my phone off it's easier said than done I tend to not spend a lot of time on my telephone however when I'm disturbed or restless I will generally go after my telephone yet what's truly significant for me to help myself to remember that this never helps it doesn't make any difference
Or if I look at something I like being in front of a screen really triggers my anxiety and it just doesn't make me feel good another thing is this idea of widening your gaze both for your mental and physical well-being but also when you're feeling discouraged that we will generally truly limit our concentration and this is additionally an issue for the majority of us working before a PC truly reduced our concentration and the same thing at the point when we're on our telephones outrageously close to our concentration yet our eyes are intended to work wide you know they're meant to see things in nature and discover things and using our peripheral view it's much healthier for the brain and it can really help tap out of anxiety if it's not so intense sometimes widening your gaze can really help so for me this is really important to stay off-screen because it just keeps my narrow-minded focus even if it's on something positive it really doesn't matter it's still too narrow and then I also feel not so good afterward because I spend too much time on my phone the one exception though is if I'm Facetiming someone and that leads me to the next point
** So my next point is to reach out to a friend
If I have the time which i haven't really felt like I've had these couple of days but if I had I would have reached out to a friend sometimes there's nothing better than to take a break from everything and just talk to a friend when I'm feeling anxious I don't like talking about my anxiety with my friends but what does help is to connect with other human beings and talk to them instead of focusing on what makes me feel sad obviously this is only true for super healthy relationships so don't reach out to someone who isn't kind one thing I recently learned or I guess remembered because it's very innate is from the Swedish guy he's taproot nephropathy I don't know what that's called in English anywho he said remember if you don't feel like meditating you can just lie on the floor and stare up into the sky and that is more than enough for me this was sort of like an aha moment because when I'm feeling sad and anxious I do not want to exercise I do not want to meditate I do not want to do breathing exercises because this just feels like a lot of pressure and I tie my self-worth into doing these activities.
But the idea of just lying on the ground and just looking up at the sky either inside or outside it really just calms me because first of all lying on the floor and feeling the support of something firm is really grounding second of all it's just really nice to just do nothing in the sense that you don't just do nothing and lie in front of the TV because then you do something but you do nothing by just lying in front in front of you now in front of yourself and just looking up at the sky my next tip that really helped me last night when I had I told my husband I said I'm going to have a panic attack within five minutes and he said do you want to do this do you want to do this do you want to do this and I said no no no and then he said you want to have a shower and I said hmm maybe so the shower was and I think this really reminded me that anything sensory really helps so anything that gets me out of my mind and into my body is extremely useful and not into my body as again in a heart exercise way no but like into my body and realizing that my body is not just my mind or my arms or my stomach or my heart my body is this cohesive a huge thing that has so many more parts than my brain or my mind that you know is that even in there so my favorite tips for this would be riding showering being outside just lying on the ground or going for an easy walk pretty much anything that is sensory in a sense and that feels nice and good for me writing is fun I'll do that sometimes if I feel like it but especially when it's about this thing about the narrow-minded focus again so going outside is normally better because it helps widen my focus and is just a reminder for anyone who's like me who struggled with episodes of compulsory training or training too hard or being too forceful with yourself it's just a good reminder to do easy walks so don't go for a two-hour walk unless you want to I have one walk that's completely flat which is great when we're feeling down we've used it many times because it's completely flat but surrounded by nature and it's usually pretty quiet so that's a good one and the last thing that I try to always remember is the phrase this too shall pass this phrase has really helped me throughout my life remembering that
things aren't permanent and when I remember that even the bad feelings and the negative moments aren't permanent and that they will pass in the next moment in the next day or in the next week or whenever they will just be forgotten about it's a really good reminder when you feel really sad and can't really don't really feel like you can do anything about it it makes it a bit easier for me to sit in the sadness if that makes sense to find some sort of stillness and the sadness where it's okay that I'm sad or it's okay that I feel anxious and it normally makes it feel more sad and less frustrated and less angry which is normally um quite nice for me because I find it a lot easier to be sad than to be angry simply because being angry can be so destructive so this too shall pass is a fantastic phrase I like to remind myself of another one the bonus one I also have is a quote that is gently my dear gently and that's also a good one to remind myself of if I'm becoming more angry or more frustrated where it normally goes towards myself a bit more I feel a bit better even just talking about this with you guys so thank you so much for seeing the blog
Find mental well-being so important especially since I've struggled with depression for so many years and have not been able to sleep and anxiety and lots of disorders but now I feel like I'm generally quite happy but I tend to be extremely cautious or maybe extremely aware as a better word because it's less judgmental anytime I'm feeling down so this week I had three days in a row of feeling sad and quite sad which is not so normal for me these days so I tend to try my best to really pick it up and really listen to my body and my feelings and just do one thing at a time listen to my own advice but also be hyper-aware of my feelings and emotions so that i could fulfill my emotional and my physical needs so that my mental health was okay those are my neighbors' dogs but I think it's really important if you had depressive tendencies in the past or if you feel like you're getting more and more depressed to really catch these moments of sadness and be able to sit in them without harming yourself if that makes sense so I'd love to hear what you thought about this blog in the comments this may be a bit different it was a really fun blog to make because I'm hoping this will help me I still have a few hours left of this date to survive but I think it will be fine and then just another day tomorrow and I'm hoping I will wake up a bit happier then so thank you so much
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