Changing4Best
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Sometimes I just sit on the porch and listen to the birds. Somehow that calms me. Or I go for a walk and look at flowers. I stop to enjoy their aromas too. If the weather is bad, I sit and enjoy watcing my aquarium fish.
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When the brain is overloaded, I guess you either need something to relax/soothe/rest it or else find something different for it to focus on so that elements of the other stuff that have caused it to trip out quieten down and become more background rather than front or centre.
I relate to this and I don't know. I am so all over the place.The particular thing I'm trying to talk about here is feeling your brain is overloaded / short circuited / had too much input.
I don't know if you were referring to physical or mental pain, or both, but I use it for that too.For me, dissociation (eg from pain)
But the most imp parts were to hear he said, Mark Twain said something like, ~'I've had a lot of suffering in my life and some of it actually occurred' (I understand what he meant), and this guy quoting ~'There is more right with you no matter how much is wrong with you'.
being mindful (for myself, or in areas of my life that don't just include at work with/ for others, etc) is not something I 'could' do or 'should' do, but something I must start to do if I want to survive.
Sort of unrelated but saw that there are a bunch of videos on youtube from South Pacific Private, they say Australia's largest treatment centre. Heard one on cPtsd which was a good reminder/ overview. It reminded me that overwhelm needs to be broken down, and that mastering/ managing comes through doing the basics over and over and over.
Can you link me this video too?