LC - Thoughts of the mind

I think the only good thing so far is that yesterday I got the cast of my wrist, it's now in a splint type thing that comes up my hand though too so still don't really have much use of it but at least it's not as big and bulky as the cast. In the next week or two I should be able to go over to just a brace thing which will mean I've got the use of my hand at least back. Start physio this week for it too, still got some exercises to do with it at home.

goody

Isn't it funny how you can grow up living with your family and hating them or not getting on that well with them, but when you're not around them and have moved away you miss them and want them round but if they are around for too long you want them gone? At the moment I want my family round, but I'm just putting that down to the fact that I've got a sore throat and so am no feeling that great. Stupid throat plays up every damn winter, it was meant to stop this after I got my tonsils out last year

salt-gargelling sounds like fun
and is good to harden-up the soft inflamed tissues of the throat.

hey I had a septrhynoplasty several years ago and I still have sinus problems - have done ever since, just not so severe

Would it not be good if we could fast-forward through life, through the parts that are stressful and tiring, through the parts where we are sick and miserable, through the parts where there is pain and suffering. Well yes it would be good, but without those parts then who are we? Those parts help make us up, (they should) make us enjoy everything else much more. It's so easy to think of everything that makes us miserable, maybe if we took 5 minutes out of our evening to think of 1-2 things that we enjoyed or that was something positive of that day it could perhaps brighten it up a little bit, maybe realise that maybe, just maybe on some small chance life isn't quite so bad.

When my parents found out I was suffering from depression, mum suggested to start writing down in a book at the end of every day 5 things that were good about that day. Well I soon gave that up. Why? It is damn hard to try find 5 good things about a day when you don't even want to get up in the morning. Hell most of the time even now I'd struggle to think of 2 things, let alone 5 things. Most days go by and I don't focus on whether anything good happened in the day. Keep thinking of what went wrong, or what I done wrong, what I should have done, what I could have done better etc etc etc.

Life is a challenge, it takes a strong person to live each and everyday. We are all still here, so that makes us strong people as well. The fact the we live each day with a mental illness? The fact that sometimes the simplest of things is a challenge for us? The fact that we struggle to do everyday tasks? Just proves that we must be strong to still be in this world, on this earth. If we have to live our lives day by day, hour by hour or minute by minute, does it really matter as long as we are still here walking this earth? Yes, sure there may be many a time when we wish we weren't here, when we consider the fact that there are other options, when we sit and plan ways to escape without hurting anyone else. Truth is, we'd hurt anyone and everyone that knew and/or cared about us no matter how we choose to escape this place. There is no easy way out, there is no easy path. No matter the path we choose we always risk hurting someone. We can't make everyone happy all the time, and we shouldn't try to. What we should be trying to do is to make ourselves happy. We are number 1. We deserve to be here just like everyone else. We may not think this is true, but it is true. We have a right, we have our rights, we deserve to live just like anyone else.

If everyone was the same, how boring would that be?

WE cant live and not hurt anything.
Everything we do hurts something else.


By watching,how pain is experienced within us
we get to see how our mechanism functions.

When experiencing pain we react like a sea anenomes.
We contract.
When we notice we contract on the thought of pain
then we realise how powerfully creative we are.

Through our minds we get to find just how powerful we are,
as when we train ourselves NOT TO REACT we retain the full (bloomed) openess
which aliveness is and stay intouch with our intuition
which provides the lightning-answers when dealing with the difficulties in our Days.

The Mind functions best when Open.

Yes but how do we open our mind???

Sometimes it is so closed that we need a jackhammer to open up from the bottom up!

[quote="mylife"]Yes but how do we open our mind???

Sometimes it is so closed that we need a jackhammer to open up from the bottom up![/




Who is this WE that uses the JackHammer?
and
how often do you use this method to open the mind you're attacking?

What does taking CARE mean to YOU?

hmmmm taking care...

means:

1. Eating healthy
2. getting exercise
3. having time to oneself
4. laughing alot
5. having friends
6 being secure

just for a start

and?

and what?

greasemonkey and mylife

While I appreciate comments to what I write, if you are going to discuss other things (like above with 'opening the mind') can you please do it somewhere else that is NOT in my journal. The discussion you are having above and the fact that it is in MY journal has gotten me upset and I would like it to stop please.

Hi LC

I keep rattling the old head for 'health' information. 'Vertigo' finally came to me..something to check out maybe?

And yes look after number 1, I like that LC.

Take care LC (((((arohanui hugs)))))

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