John Castleford @ Life-Minded

A thought to share:

The stress we experience during our daily lives isn’t created by circumstances but rather by our judgments about them.

Thoughts are not reality—
we can simply let then pass through without letting them persist in our head like an unwelcome relative foisting themselves on us.

Useful insight from James Clear’s “Atomic Habits”, a highly recommended self-help book. Don’t expect to be able to instantly change ingrained habits. Instead, try to be 1% better today than yesterday— and do that 100 days in a row: small lifestyle changes compound over a long period of time.

Name something good in your life that ended?

What did you learn?

What bad experience did you have in your life that ended?

How did you grow?

Do you have an inner critic? Sitting on your shoulder whispering reminders of how this didn’t work, and you always got that wrong?

Listen to this 20 second video clip … Hi James
This 20 sec video clip sums up what we were talking about.

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Yesterday was World Mental Health Day. But every day should be Mental Health day. If you are struggling to get through tough times, do know you are not alone. Don’t be shy about reaching out.

We dread death.
But we die three times.
First, when the body shuts down and ceases to function. The second is when we are buried or cremated. And the third is when our name is mentioned for the very last time.

I think there are three deaths. One when the body shuts down and ceases to function: a second when we are buried or cremated … and here is the cruncher…. the third is when our name is mentioned for the very last time.

You can’t imagine it’s night time and simultaneously day time. You can’t imagine sitting down and standing up simultaneously; you can only think one thought at a time. So please choose carefully….

We can be grateful science has increased our longevity. But are our longer lives imbued with better existential insights keeping up with the development of modern scientific advances?

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

There is always someone who doesn’t appreciate your finer qualities. Don’t let that person be you.

We mustn’t berate ourselves when we cannot always give people what they want — or get what we want — but the question could be reframed by asking what they — or we —need. Need or want? It’s a good question to consider.

Great book and looking forward to using the app.

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to chose one thought over another.”
—William James

Would you agree that the vast majority of psychiatric diagnoses are not based on empirical medical observations, but rather the language used (or not) by a patient? Which makes it subjective.

Fortunately much medical research continues happily around the rest of the world.

Anxiety is a normal state for us much of the time. It’s not a disorder.

Existentially… why is it that it’s only on the brink of widespread death and destruction that elicits a unified moral clarity? Recognising peace as an ideal in its own right is an existential necessity— it shouldn’t require a prerequisite of catastrophic failures.

I’m guessing at least 40 new “disorders” added in to the new edition.

Instant gratification with minimal effort fuels the imagination, and what’s imaginary isn’t reality.

From illness to wellness?

A start might be to switch from illness to wellness.

Any bets on how many NEW mental disorders will appear in this edition?

Any bets on how many “new” medicalised disorders will appear?

Is this you?
““I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

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We all need to be able to reach out when anxiety gets the better of us. Do make a note of this support facility anyone can contact/

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Very interesting that physical issues were so prominent correlates of withdrawal; unsteady gait was a particular surprise.

Our worries and fears often leave us sad and stressed. Nature can have an amazingly calming effect: nature helps us feel calmer, more optimistic and a walk in nature is a great way of coping with stress. But don’t take my word for it. Try it!

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If you care what other people think you will always be their prisoner.
— Lao Tsu.

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead to a better understanding of ourselves”
Carl Jung.