I started looking at mental health and some emotional states like habits--we don't always notice when we start doing things, and left to its own or when isolated, the mind has its own tendencies too.
Hope can be found in knowing how to change habits, and in creating a clear vision for a healthier and more desirable way of being.
Aside from this guide for coping when isolated or among others, the following are possible first steps for recognizing what you might experience and how to shift out of it in-the-moment. Longer-term changes can come from changing your environment and how you're supported in pursuing better habits, as well as from shifting how you perceive your environment and actions.
Anxiety - focus/isolate attention to very simple sensation & senses--concentrate on one sensation or stimulus at a time and selectively add/reduce what's going on around you, try to embrace something
[rampant, toxic] Shame - make the suffering tangible and put it into context with something worthwhile; reconnect with people who can help you do so/help see yourself more completely
Depression - push yourself/reconnect with what matters
[for the above three, the following cycle and long-term intervention objectives to prevent them from consistently feeding into one another. Note that other loops and cycles may exist with any of these mental states/emotions too, I'm only familiar with the above.]
Grief - deep gratitude
Unrelenting Anger - focus it toward constructive/disruptive engagement, energetic outbursts, seek humbling
Fear - (how to distinguish from anxiety?) what is the courageous choice? Acknowledge heightened body function as aid/reframe as excitement, accept and focus on overarching intention/purpose
Dead numbness/emotionally hollow - *?
Breathe sharply and deeply, note Sabina Berman's passage (last three paragraphs of p. 239 "I am Me, but what's new is that I am..." -240 "Which means, plug back in to the real world with every sense" below),
push yourself/try these (among the simplest: seek healthy sources of pain, physical activity, try to activate empathetic thinking and if/when possible, actually empathize)
[*I'm still figuring this out]
A few overlapping areas I've yet to sort out:
Inert/indifference/apathy/definite lack of clarity or recurring uncertainty/ambiguity - commit to something aligned with higher intentions and dive in.
Despondent - see above + depression
(images above: excerpted pages 338-341 of "Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World" by Sabina Berman)
Hope can be found in knowing how to change habits, and in creating a clear vision for a healthier and more desirable way of being.
Aside from this guide for coping when isolated or among others, the following are possible first steps for recognizing what you might experience and how to shift out of it in-the-moment. Longer-term changes can come from changing your environment and how you're supported in pursuing better habits, as well as from shifting how you perceive your environment and actions.
Anxiety - focus/isolate attention to very simple sensation & senses--concentrate on one sensation or stimulus at a time and selectively add/reduce what's going on around you, try to embrace something
[rampant, toxic] Shame - make the suffering tangible and put it into context with something worthwhile; reconnect with people who can help you do so/help see yourself more completely
Depression - push yourself/reconnect with what matters
[for the above three, the following cycle and long-term intervention objectives to prevent them from consistently feeding into one another. Note that other loops and cycles may exist with any of these mental states/emotions too, I'm only familiar with the above.]
Grief - deep gratitude
Unrelenting Anger - focus it toward constructive/disruptive engagement, energetic outbursts, seek humbling
Fear - (how to distinguish from anxiety?) what is the courageous choice? Acknowledge heightened body function as aid/reframe as excitement, accept and focus on overarching intention/purpose
Dead numbness/emotionally hollow - *?
Breathe sharply and deeply, note Sabina Berman's passage (last three paragraphs of p. 239 "I am Me, but what's new is that I am..." -240 "Which means, plug back in to the real world with every sense" below),
push yourself/try these (among the simplest: seek healthy sources of pain, physical activity, try to activate empathetic thinking and if/when possible, actually empathize)
[*I'm still figuring this out]
A few overlapping areas I've yet to sort out:
Inert/indifference/apathy/definite lack of clarity or recurring uncertainty/ambiguity - commit to something aligned with higher intentions and dive in.
Despondent - see above + depression
(images above: excerpted pages 338-341 of "Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World" by Sabina Berman)
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