selfcare

The importance of self-care is paramount; enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and maintain control under pressure.

A Path To Stillness
You may have experienced it. The moment when you find yourself in perfect stillness, or looking back and realizing in surprise that for a stretch of time you thought of absolutely nothing at all. There are many names and versions of this sensation, most recently collected under the umbrella of mindfulness. Meditation teachers tell us to focus on the breath, to be alert and relaxed, to let everything be present, to let thoughts rise and fall like waves. It all sounds so peaceful and quiet.
By Rebecca Lee5 years ago in Psyche
Breaking Free from Negative Self-Talk
(FULL DISCLOSURE: NONE of this is written to fish for compliments. ALL of this is to shed light on what I know I’m not alone in doing)
By ec from cle5 years ago in Psyche
5 Useful Stress Busters for Today’s Challenging Times
The Sun never rises in the west. Today’s world will never stop bombarding us with stress. We can’t stop stress triggers. It is possible to trick our mind to come out of stress. We can defeat heart attacks and death at an early age by keeping our stress at bay. At its optimum level, stress motivates us to perform well under pressure. Yet, if we don’t manage high levels of unwanted stress, our health and sense of well-being can suffer. Here are some tips for getting your stress under control.
By Anitha Sankaran5 years ago in Psyche
Two Minutes of Self-Care
It’s easy to neglect self-care. We get caught up in work, the issues of our friends and families, economics, politics, and lots of other bullshit that doesn’t serve us.
By MJ Blehart5 years ago in Psyche
The Battle for Sleep
The most strained relationship in my life is my relationship with sleep. I was the youngest of five kids growing up in a two-bedroom condo. In order to make the most of limited space, my brothers and I slept in bunk beds. Most nights, I spent endless hours staring at the slats of the bunk above me, letting morbid thoughts creep into my mind. What if the bunk bed broke and I ended up impaled on one of those slats? When that got to be too much, I would turn to the wall. The wallpaper was ships at sea and even though the image was always the same, the scenarios I created in my mind were ever-changing. Sometimes I would run my hand over the wallpaper, feeling the bump where my mother plastered over the hole.
By Mack Devlin5 years ago in Psyche
Unleashing magical powers by self anchoring
We have heard many times saying "Be the energy you want to attract" have you ever thought how can we able to achieve this state, self anchoring is one of the asset to achieve this let's see how?
By ANSH CHAUHAN5 years ago in Psyche
Self-love Matters
Self-love is too often misunderstood as selfishness, a sort of egotistical, greedy and narcissistic state of being at the exclusion or expense of others.
By Eric Stone5 years ago in Psyche
What Is the Difference Between Mental Health and Mental Illness?
The difference between mental health and mental illness isn’t clear to many people. It’s easier to understand the difference when you treat them as separate entities. Mental health is about mental wellness - we all have mental health. Mental illness is when someone is diagnosed with a mental disorder.
By Maulik Borsaniya5 years ago in Psyche
Fear
All of us experience fear at some time or another and if we didn’t we’d be oblivious to danger so it’s nothing that should cause us to feel weak. However, many people develop such an innate sense of fear that it begins to have a detrimental impact upon almost all aspects of their lives.
By T. S. Michaels5 years ago in Psyche
Managing & Controlling Stress
We will all experience stress to a certain degree in our day-to-day lives. It could be as a result of a personal setback e.g. a relationship breakdown or a bereavement, a health issue, maybe losing a job or it may be due to other pressures at work. In fact, stress can manifest itself for any number of reasons and, in certain instances, a ‘healthy’ level of stress can actually have positive benefits for us. This often occurs at work where a manageable degree of pressure often spurs us on to be more productive.
By T. S. Michaels5 years ago in Psyche
The Purchase
I took a deep breath and just a little more than a sip of wine as I steeled my nerves, preparing to do one of the things that scared me most in the world. It was such a simple thing. I knew that if anyone could see how close to a breakdown I was, they would think I was certifiably insane. Most of the lights were off in my living room so the glare from my computer screen was especially harsh. Which was actually fitting for how I was feeling. Just as I gave up and was about to shut my computer down, my phone rang. I answered to the sound of my sister rattling off a list of all the things that made her body absolutely perfect.
By Glori5 years ago in Psyche
Detoxifying Toxicity
Covid-19 hurt, in a lot of different ways. I had to take in a roommate because bills were getting tight and I had to find a way to make ends meet. I had made friends with a coworker that I thought I had gotten to know really well and asked her to move in with me since. When she first moved in, it was great, we got along well and she treated my daughter really well too. Soon, I had found out that she actually had a crush on me and wanted to be in a relationship with me, though she had never been with a female before. I didn't really feel the same, and she used that against me and started to treat me differently. She asked me why I asked her to move in if I wasn't interested in her like that, which left me baffled because I didn't think I had given her any indication that I was interested in her that way.
By Crissy Cornwell5 years ago in Psyche