90% of what goes through our head, is our brain in predictive mode, wanting to control and predict the future, puts us on alert, fear mode, stress and cortisol to a million, overflowing anxiety without solving anything, now, or later, resulting in sleeplessness, useless anxiety because it did not happen what our thoughts suggested, especially the intrusive ones.
Being in control of what we think is the first step to living with quality.
It's okay to be quiet at home and isolate myself from time to time, doing nothing, not pushing myself to anything, slowing down life, resting and stopping going around as if the world was going to end tomorrow.
I share these super functional exercises and with immediate positive results, when fear enters me, fear, and the cortisol discharge almost leaves me speechless or without articulating words: I usually breathe with the longest expiration consciously for two minutes getting my heart to lower its pulsations, which makes my brain interpret it as that I am not afraid, that I am resting, and that there is no need to run away.
If you can't sleep because intrusive and distorted thoughts haunt me, I mentally choose a word and start conjuring up words with the first letter in my memory, if you run out, you go with the second letter, you're not going to get to the last letter. When you're already asleep.And after these exercises I feel that I am as the Japanese say, every day a little better than yesterday.
Thoughts when they are over-thought, distorted with the interpretations that our mind makes, not facts, which are often tinged with fear, beliefs or past experiences, we have to learn to observe them, without getting hooked, this is also a way of taking care of ourselves, because the anxiety that these distorted thoughts generate for us, are often not noticeable on the outside, but inside they consume us.
Today you don't have to believe everything that goes through your mind... you can choose what to let in and what to let go. There is no need to run away...
When the everyday ceases to be special, we need to recover the power to notice, to be grateful, to enjoy that which is wonderful and that we have there, learning to notice is a faculty with which we are born and that we are losing, but it can be recovered when we become aware of it️️.
Time passes and as an adult that becomes a way of living that you don't even feel “weird” because it's already yours, always demonstrating, always producing, always justifying the space you occupy as if at some point someone was going to give you the definitive permission to just be, a pod that ends up being a total self-punishment.
Receive a big hug full of Caribbean sun 🇻🇪
Janitze.🌷
Separator made with Canva by @janitzearratia
Any images in this post are taken with my iPhone 12, the Infinix pro-note 30 or with the camera eighties Rolleiflex 2.8 f, and edited by me with Canva
Translation with |DeepL
