Negative Emotions Show You Where You Need Alignment
Listen to your inner child and be accountable for your reactions
Dear reader, emotions can make us do sometimes strange things. As a person with bipolar disorder, I always remind myself that I’m not my emotions. I’m not even my thoughts. Yet, in the middle of a crisis might be difficult to deal with anything at all, you must carry on until you can come out of it.
The thing is that in this case, you need to trick the mind to think specific things before your dilemma makes an entrance, in order to be able to prevent it well.
So I’ve decided to create a routine that doesn’t have to wait for the beginning of the usual disaster, and that can offer me the possibility to stay grounded and safe every single day of my life. This routine is based on meditation, and a few more things. I’ll give you my remedy and formulas so you too can apply it whether you suffer from a mental disorder or not — this works in all cases.
Relax the mind and enjoy the moment
The first thing you need to understand is that you are not your problem, nor your crisis. This is wonderful because it leads immediately to the fact that you are who you are, and the box of thoughts in your mind is what it is but separate from you. Now you can even feel touched within, as I’m giving you perhaps a whole new perception to use when you are open and willing to emerge as who you are — someone others can’t always see. Perhaps you might even start experiencing this compassionate sense of self more clearly.
Try to trick the mind then — and allow yourself to enter a new mechanism, in which you will be always able to protect yourself from the side of you who needs more attention — during a possible crisis. Make a list of things that have the great power to calm you down.
Read specific books that can cause you to feel loved by yourself, or that can help you feel positive and empowered.
Take a hot bath and let the element water love you and make you feel reborn from a moment of depression. Or take a cold shower to prevent anger to escalate within. If anger is your problem, you can even use some ice to rub at the base of your neck by the medulla.
Try to listen to music that resonates with harmony and peace. Let yourself go into a world of dreams in your imagination and don’t forget that everything is always possible at the right time and with the right intentions. Fill yourself with good vibes and stay away from energies that can trigger your irritation.
Take a walk in nature. This helps a lot every time. Nature has the power to calm you down and makes you feel grounded. As you walk, you will start feeling better but don’t just walk — rather, talk to yourself out of your preoccupations or upset thoughts by having a healthy debate with two sides of yourself. The side that argues and the wise side that can help you.
There is a child within that never grew up. Listen to the inner child and be prepared to embrace the experience of talking to him/her with love and care. Feel the emotions that came out even if they are painful — because this is the only way to talk yourself out of the mess. Desintetize your mind from pain.
When I used to work in the clinic of Tarzana-Los Angeles-CA — as a clinical hypnotherapist — I often used techniques for desensitization. They always worked very well with my patients, leaving a sense of deep relaxation in the mind as well as in the body. Your goal is always one — find ways to calm down and then deeply relax so that you can enjoy the day.
Conclusion
The way we interact with others makes us responsible for the method we chose to do it. There is no excuse and it doesn’t matter how sick we are. Taking care of ourselves is, in fact, our main responsibility also because no one in this world knows us exactly as we are. No one knows our struggles or even our dreams exactly the way we know them and perceive them. So this tells you immediately one thing: you are the only master of your destiny and what you do or say makes you automatically accountable. Let’s live with at least this responsibility trying to find ways to relax more and worry less.
Good luck!
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