Time management and daily therapy work

[anonymous12345]

I need help with time management. I feel I have successfully moved through the three phases of complex ptsd work. So I have all the tools I need to proactively manage my mood. Problem now is it takes best part of each day doing all my exercises. Please help me to choose the top two most effective approaches. 1. daily journal and CBT also daily journal thought exercise. 2. Andrew Huberman inspired vagal breathing slow heart rate variability 3. wim hof method and cold water therapy 4. Nidra Somatic yoga

 

[Susan Jane]

Welcome to the forum. I would ask myself what helps me most, if any and then do those. For me yoga and breathing because I don’t like to journal but I write when I feel like it. The healing for me comes when I listen to my body and act accordingly

 

[Friday]

When I’m doing average? (Not my best, not my worst, just a basic average most days look like this?) My day roughly looks like this:

4 hours of play
10 hours of work
6 hours of sitting on my ass
4 hours of sleep

So apx 14 hours of exercise (my work & play is usually physical), and 4-10 of rest (mental exercise, being social, etc. means that 6 hours of on my arse, may be freaking exhausting. Or? Not. Shrug. Depends).

I take hot/cold/hot/cold showers, in BETWEEN each of those brackets. So 3-5 per day.


^^^ Those blocks of time have looked VERY different over the years, and during different phases of my life.

For example?

- For roughly 5-7 years my time blocks were in weeks/months. A few weeks/months working (24/7, although I did sleep, I was often awake 72-96 hours. Personal time was non-existent, playtime was a state of mind); a few months partying (sex, drugs, & dancing); a few months surfing & sleeping on the beach, and simple living off-grid (fish, fruit, surf, stars). Rinse lather repeat. Until the partying block of time got boring and I skipped straight to the beach, and block 3 became trying to be normal (and failing, and going back to work). Work. Beach. Beurocraxy??? Nope! Back to work. Beach.

- For the better part of a decade my life was tetrised into daily, weekly, monthly, & seasonal blocks. University. Work. Homeschooling. Parenting. Seasonal sports. Travel. Social. Reeeeeeally full days/weeks/months/seasons. Even my YEARS had Tetris blocks in them (between seasons), and pick a season -any season- and it was Tetris’d differently than both every other season (that year), as well as every same-season in the preceding/following years.

- I’ve spent at LEAST 6 years (in total, not in a block; although there have been 3 large blocks of 2+ years each) sick/injured, and laying down except to pee & shower. Sometimes sleeping 20+ hours a day. Sometimes sleeping 20 minutes a day.

So I cannot even begin to guesstimate what therapies, practices, skills, etc. you have “time” for, in your life. Nor how you best Tetris your days. I can only show you different ways I’ve organized my own life, and hope some of it is helpful.