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This One Question is Doing Wonders For My Mental Health
I react too much. I stress out easily. I feel emotions with great intensity. I’m also quick-tempered and can be unforgiving. All of which has wreaked havoc on my mental health. When I’m having a heightened reaction, emotions colour my ability to see. Everything seems worse. And pointless. And there it goes again, a gradual slide into depression. To break that chain, I now ask myself this one simple question when I’m consumed by the power of my own emotions: Is the thing that has me so distressed really that bad, or is it my way of processing it that is leading to the distress? And just like that, my…
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Do This.
I wrote this article when I was feeling super overwhelmed and on the verge of a breakdown/outburst, so this has come from the heart. (I also edited and posted it when I was as calm as I’m capable of being so this is also coming from the head.) This is exactly what I did to calm myself down, and bring the day back on track, without causing too much heartache to myself. Because, well, I’m the one who suffers the most when I let these feelings have a free run, and I have had several years of unhelpful responses to such situations, to the extent that now I’m completely done…
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3 Wonderful Side-Effects of Regular Meditation That I Didn’t See Coming
A few weeks of regular meditation, and I’m a believer. Do I need stress relief, anxiety management, and improved focus? Yes. How about hormonal balance, better sleep, and a greater capacity to love? Yes please! I went in expecting all of the above research-backed benefits of meditation. What I didn’t see coming was the numerous ways in which meditation changes a person, both on the macro and micro levels. Here are some unexpected benefits that I’ve experienced from a sustained meditation practice. Meditation has made me more patient (and patience is a superpower in my book) Breathe in. Breathe out.Breathe in. Breathe out.Breathe in. Breathe out. Repetition leads to monotony.…
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Depression is Many Things, but Primarily a Lack of Self Love
Depression is defined as a “common but serious mood disorder”, a “serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act”, or “a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person’s thoughts, behavior, feelings, and sense of well-being” There are several other definitions. The symptoms of depression are wide-ranging – from a lack of appetite (or overeating) to sleeplessness (or oversleeping) to withdrawal from day to day activities (or going into overdrive). These well-meaning definitions give us an idea about the condition of depression. But they nowhere near capture the essence of it. Drama, heartache, despair, hopelessness, numbness The…
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To Cure Depression, Challenge Your Thoughts, Change the Narrative
Curing depression is about taking back our power. Taking it back from the thoughts and beliefs that have come to create and perpetuate our negative mindset. To really understand that let’s look at how depression comes about. We are not born depressed. Far from it, babies are pure love. They smile without inhibition and laugh without a care. Much like the fragrance of a flower, or the warmth of the sun, they do not smile for anyone. They just are their wonderful little loveable selves, spreading joy and happiness simply by the virtue of their being. We all started out like that. But this is a short-lived phase. We quickly start picking…
