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Your Daily Must-Do’s for Physical & Mental Health?

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  • #409530
    SereneWolf
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    I’ve started meditating few months ago and since then I’m doing meditation on daily basis
    (Still only around 5-10 Minutes)
    and light exercising like a year ago. (20 Minutes)
    Daily 10–15-minute evening walk is also must for me

    What is your Must-do’s or something that you do on daily basis for your mental & physical health?

    #409741
    Tee
    Participant

    Dear Addy,

    great that you are meditating and exercising daily. Never mind that it’s a short meditation or a light exercise – they’re good for your physical and mental health, and since you’re doing them regularly, that’s what really matters!

    Besides a light walk (my knee allowing 🙂 ), I also practice self-observation daily: I notice when something triggers me, and if it’s a bigger thing and I have insights about it, I write it down in a journal. It helps me get clarity on myself and also to regulate my emotions. And it actually helps me feel better in general, because after having processed the trigger (emotionally) and understood what it was about, I tend to feel better.

    #409756
    Anonymous
    Guest

    * Dear Addy: You are always welcome to return to your previous thread where we last communicated, and continue there. Here and in future threads, I hope that you get/ use the opportunity to communicate with other members.

    anita

    #410147
    SereneWolf
    Participant

    Dear Tee,
    How you’re self-observing? You mean journaling how you feel and if it’s not something that you want you try to improve that state?

    #410148
    SereneWolf
    Participant

    Dear Anita,
    How are you doing? I thought because of this matter is related more to Health & Fitness so

    #410150
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Addy:

    I am better than some, not as good as others. How are you? In regard to “mental & physical health“, which you asked about in your original post here, I looked for what may be relevant to the topic in your previous threads and found this:

    “There is this critical negative voice… Today.. I started to realize how much potential I have??? I have so many skills, Endless possibilities and there is so much I can do! Then why I’m not able to maintain that energy of being enough?… I took a test and it says I have some mild signs of (Childhood Emotional Neglect)… like low self-esteem, shunning emotional closeness or intimacy, mild ADHD, etc… I used to be scared of (father) when I was little… scared (of) his anger when I’d do something wrong… he gets angry if things aren’t going as he wants it to be… whenever I do something wrong, or get anxious to find a tool or take some more time to find, he’d get furious and scold me”-

    In your quest for mental and physical health do the opposite of neglecting yourself.  Develop a Loving Inner Father Entity (LIFE)  in your brain: a mental entity that loves you and is never angry at you, never furious at you, never scolds you, never criticizes you- no matter what.  Gradually, replace the SIFE (Scolding Inner Father Entity) with LIFE.

    LIFE will make it possible for you to actualize more of your potential, make better use of your many skills, maintain that energy, and make some of those endless possibilities happen in your own life!

    anita

    #410158
    SereneWolf
    Participant

    Dear Anita,
    “I am better than some, not as good as others”
    It’s not easy to answer you haha but I hope you’ll be even better

    And You just made my day with LIFE. I’ll work on that. but can you also explain how can I develop that Loving Inner Father Entity (LIFE)? Like how can I start? can you guide through the progress?

    Thanks a lot
    and Have a Funtastic day 😀

    Addy

    #410160
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Addy:

    You are welcome. “How can I start?“- get a printed photo of yourself as a young child (your choice of photo, one that you like). Place the photo in the middle of a white thick piece of paper (glued to the paper, or held in place otherwise), or place the photo in a small frame, one that you can carry with you wherever you go. Think of this photo as your special, lovable child. Think of the person looking at the photo as his loving father. If you choose to do this, let me know when you are done and  describe your chosen photo.

    anita

    #410169
    Anonymous
    Guest

    * Edit: “Think of the boy in this photo as your special, lovable child”.

     

    #410186
    SereneWolf
    Participant

    Dear Anita,

    I find it amusing but I’m kind of agree with you as well. I’ll try do that

    #410187
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Okay, Addy. Let me know when you do that.

    anita

    #410199
    Tee
    Participant

    Dear Addy,

    How you’re self-observing? You mean journaling how you feel and if it’s not something that you want you try to improve that state?

    Yes, I notice when I feel upset about something, or very sad about something. Let’s say I feel upset and angry about something. I write down what it was that disturbed me and why. I jot down everything that comes to mind related to the incident, and eventually I come up with an insight.

    It can be either about myself, e.g. I may find out that I have a false belief about myself or other people, which caused me to react too strongly. Or sometimes I realize I have some expectations that I shouldn’t have, and I was upset when those expectations weren’t met. Once I realize that, I can let go of the expectation and my anger disappears.

    Or the insight can be about the person I got disturbed with, e.g. that they are crossing my boundaries in some way, or behave in a way that is unacceptable to me. And then I decide what to do about the situation, so that I wouldn’t have to experience this kind of unacceptable behavior any more. I can either talk to the person, if they are close to me, or I can limit my exposure to them, or some other action, which I find appropriate.

    In any case, journaling leaves me with a useful piece of information and insight about myself or the other person, and usually with a plan how to improve on the situation. So that I don’t get triggered (or at least not so much) next time.

     

    #414154
    Helcat
    Participant

    Hi SereneWolf!

    It’s great that you have a healthy routine of meditation and walking. How are you finding meditation? I found it tough when I started a couple of years ago.

    I also walk every day and meditate for 15 minutes twice a day. I like to do a 15 minute stretch routine I found on YouTube too. I find that all of these practices help to manage pain.

    I’m being very careful with what I’m eating because I’ve been having stomach issues. I noticed that emotional difficulties pop up when I’m having difficulty digesting. The mind / body connection is very interesting!

    I find that keeping a gratitude journal helps with my mental health. Before evening meditation I try and list a few small good things that happened during the day. This helps me sleep and develops a positive attitude.

     

    #414220
    SereneWolf
    Participant

    Hi Helcat,
    How are you finding meditation? I found it tough when I started a couple of years ago.

    Same for me. I started with guided meditation first only with 5 minutes in the starting. Even currently I do 10 minutes after shower when I’m feeling fully fresh. Sometimes at the evening time without time limitation and let mind wonder to get the clear idea of what’s happening you know… It’s definitely helping for being mindful.

    I also walk every day and meditate for 15 minutes twice a day. I like to do a 15 minute stretch routine I found on YouTube too. I find that all of these practices help to manage pain.

    That’s good!

     

    I’m being very careful with what I’m eating because I’ve been having stomach issues. I noticed that emotional difficulties pop up when I’m having difficulty digesting. The mind / body connection is very interesting!

    Hmm interesting I’ll try to read more articles on this when I have some time

    I find that keeping a gratitude journal helps with my mental health. Before evening meditation I try and list a few small good things that happened during the day. This helps me sleep and develops a positive attitude.

    That’s great for me currently journaling is mostly depends on my mood when I feel like it I can write more than an hour and when I don’t, I just don’t but I’d prefer some consistency though. For Gratitude I’ve created gratitude prayer for things that I’m really grateful for and I really value. The first thing when I wake up is doing that prayer and at least for first 30 minutes not touching my phone. I also turn off Wi-Fi/data when I sleep, and I just only use it for some soothing instrumental music when I wake up in the morning.

     

     

    #414320
    Helcat
    Participant

    Hi SereneWolf

    I’m glad that you find meditation helpful. Journalling for an hour is a lot of writing! That sounds very productive.

    I find that I get stuck if I think over things I’ve had difficulty with. Unless it’s particularly bad and I can’t move past it without processing I don’t tend to journal about these things.

    I love the idea of a gratitude prayer. I hope you don’t mind if I borrow that idea? I’m excited about the idea of writing my own personal gratitude prayer.

    Wishing you all the best 🙏

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