I feel like I live more in my head than in the real world. Always thinking and remembering… worried about what other people think.
I realize most of the time, none of this stuff is “real”. It’s just a bunch of thoughts and fears. In the real world, I’m a guy in an apartment alone… Trying to keep my head above water.
I think I need to listen to the teacher I follow. The past is the past, the future hasn’t come yet …all you have always is the present moment. I feel like if I found my way back to reality away from my head… life wouldn’t seem so bad…and maybe I wouldn’t either …
I think I need to develop a recovery mindset that focuses on right now not my thoughts
I have lessened my expectations of myself regarding what i can achieve each day. I feel less stressed then.
I do some chores, sometimes go out for a walk or for a coffee with hubby. My hubby is sick and looks after me, helps me a lot just having him there helps.
I’m grateful for when im in an okay mood because low mood often wipes the floor with me.
But we’re all just living in our heads we just have to get the balance right between thinking and doing.
Positive affirmations go far, maybe change the negative thoughts gradually to some positive ones and keep trying things out, doing your thing!
I mean that all our thoughts are based upon what we think we know and have experienced. This implies it is not original.
Try being thoughtless, so to speak. In other words, get out of your head and just do!
While doing things, like in your case making music you will think about doing it.
Listen to other people but keep an open mind. Don’t think how to respond just listen.
All our predujices that we come with are based on our experience and thus previous thought. If you train your mind to go blank and you enter into life this way, everything will always be anew.
Don’t carry the past! Let it go! Just be and do in every moment.
When you get lost in your head, ruminating. Stop and just do something else instead.
Meditating openly, rather than a trained method of concentration where you see your ruminations, your thoughts and explore them to their end. Where you watch them arise and pass, watch them to their ending and you eventually get silence.
Yea I don’t plan on being completely thoughtless but living life through the filters of all the distorted thoughts and perception feels like it’s robbing me of real life.
I have ups and downs, rough days and better days. I was really low last week and nearly did something id regret now but. I get triggered easily by media and drama, things i read and hear i need to live a simple life to manage this head illness. Im sick, thats not going to change anytime soon because my life trajectory has been on a illness spiral since i was a kid.
I think I was traumatized by my delusions. Between the thought broadcasting,OCD and feeling the would wanted me to kill myself because of everything I was hurt really bad almost every day. I think that traumatized me.
Also… your really strong surviving a really difficult illness from childhood. I e only done 8 years and it’s been rough
I’m really gonna try harder to get better!
ive had some rough things in childhood i wish i never
