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Be patient.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger
Any mental agitation at all (either gross or subtle emotion) is a sign of faulty thinking. Drop it. Still experiencing it? Drop it again. And again. If you don't will to abandon foolish thinking completely, you will keep on experiencing it.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Depression
Gloominess and depression: These are actually ego-driven things. If you deeply believe you are a separate-to-everything-else type of thing, then you will also believe you can be attacked, harmed, or defeated. Think of things as causal interplay. Then boundaries will start to show their real nature and frustration will disappear, for "the deluded you" will also.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Get organized: Make a daily, weekly and/or monthly schedule. This will allow you to manage your time around projects, meetings and other activities. Be sure to schedule in time for yourself, and do something that you enjoy. Allow plenty of time for doing things. Being too busy, rushed, or late, is a big source of stress.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Stop procrastinating: The longer you put off that project or deadline, the more stress it will cause when it's due. If you prepare ahead of time (schedule time on your calendar), you will avoid the unwanted stress. In addition, getting it done ahead of time will provide you with free time to do as you please.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Learn to say No: Sometimes others expect more from us than we can feasibly give. So don't be afraid to say no when your schedule is full. Let the person know that right now is a busy time, but you may be willing to help in the future. They will understand!
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Learn to relax: Relaxation techniques can be very useful in lowering your stress and anxiety levels. Here are some examples: deep breathing, listening to soothing music, meditation, massage and visualization of positive experiences.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Take care of yourself: Exercise will bring about positive physical and mental changes, which will help reduce stress. Eating fruits and vegetables are good vitamin sources for boosting the immune system. Avoid the use of "pick me ups" (sugar, caffeine, tobacco, or alcohol) as they will only provide a temporary fix to the problem.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Get enough sleep: Getting sufficient sleep each night will prepare you to take on the next day's tasks to the best of your ability. Feeling sleepy will only slow you down and put you further behind. Here are some sleeping tips to help you get the most out of your sleep time: go to bed at the same time and wake up at the same time everyday, get regular exercise (just not right before bed), keep the bedroom quiet while sleeping, and keep the room at a comfortable temperature.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Have a sense of humour: A good laugh is always a great way to relieve any stress you are dealing with. You may need to step back and learn not to take yourself so seriously. For example, exaggerate your flaws! Periodically turn the incongruous into the silly
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Don't dwell on the past: There is no point in dwelling on the past; you cannot change it. You can only learn from your mistakes and try to avoid making the same ones in the future. So focus your attention on the goals at hand, not on missed opportunities.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Find a hobby: Find a Hobby. Hobbies can be active or reflective; sometimes they can be both, like gardening. Hobbies may be shared, but often it's enjoyable activity pursued or engaged in solitude.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Check your stress levels often: Don't get obsessive about it, but throughout the day, check to see if your muscles are as relaxed as they can be. Take a deep, slow breath, and let go. Don't take more than 30-60 seconds to do this. With practice you can do it in 15 seconds.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Keep lists: When you have completed one of the tasks on your list, cross it off. Crossing everything off the list is a good feeling of accomplishment. This is also a great way to see how much you actually do during the day and pat yourself on the back for a job well done.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Not coping? Ask for help. If you feel like your stress is just too much, talk with your family, a friend or a counselor. There's always a solution.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Depression
Fatigue can result from worrying. Push aside the problem mentally and do something utterly unrelated. You won't forget anything, and perhaps later on, will find it's not a problem at all.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger
Quitting anger:
Find a good reason to quit.
E.g. 'Anger makes me lose control of myself, which I don't like feeling.'
Prepare to quit: Notice when and where the spark of anger appears. Think about what ideas occur. Notice how anger makes one feel separate and powerful, but how people curl up into their shells and refuse to interact. Expand your sense of self to include other people, and to understand them more deeply.
Living without anger: Try using new thoughts, e.g.:-
- 'I don't need to get angry'
- 'Be patient'
- 'None of those harsh, dark thoughts'
- 'Is it worth the stress and hurry?'
- 'I have all the time in the world.'
Don't try to rush things. Rushing leads to stress, and also impatience.
Most people are very wrapped-up in their own lives. The more anger shown to them, the more they will get further wrapped-up into themselves.
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Main > Health > Mental health
Share accommodation: It's often the shortest road to mental anguish and stress. I have found that rather than share, just rent a unit on your own and have no money. Then, try to get a partner to move in with you. When I switched to a lease in my own name from sharing, I felt that my rent money was actually going to pay for my mental health because I had control over where I lived (could not be kicked out if I paid the rent) and did not have to deal with other people and their foibles. It was worth every cent, despite leaving little for anything else. As long as you can eat and pay utilities, phone and petrol, you need your own lease more than anything on the planet!
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger > Chronic anger
General tips:
The stress on the body from anger is considerable. It raises blood pressure, breath rate and heart rate, compromises the immune system, and is connected to strokes, coronary heart disease, gastric and respiratory conditions, possibly diabetes and cancer. Anger is also physically painful, more so if it is chronic.
Frequent anger attacks are linked to depression, which is anger turned inward that festers. It's also linked to anxiety, because anger is an attempt to ward off threats.
If you experience chronic anger, you need to deal with it immediately for health reasons, and for the safety of others.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger > Chronic anger
Getting control back from an anger attack:
Go for a walk: Walk off the pain. Feel the warm sun. Get some fresh air.
Distract yourself but don't do anything: Find a comfortable position and watch your goldfish, or the wind in the trees. Try not to watch tv.
Write in a journal: it can help if your head is too cloudy to think. Cast your mind back over what's happened lately, that may have caused the stress reaction.
See a psychologist: there may be some issues you need more information about.
Look at your lifestyle: anger might also be related to lack of sleep, too many calories, lack of dark while sleeping, too much noise.
Look at your stress-coping options: help yourself by not relying on drugs, alcohol, gambling, dysfunctional relationships, 'shopping therapy', or overwork. These all have serious negative effects that add to your total stress and worsen the problem.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger > Chronic anger
Fix the problem: When you are feeling relatively normal, take a good hard look at your life. E.g.
- You are probably too busy.
- Stop carrying a bossy parental figure on your back.
- You probably don't delegate jobs. Your projects or timeframe for completion is probably unrealistic.
- Start taking regular breaks. Take afternoon naps. Make time by doing nothing. Take a day off, go fishing, play sports.
- You probably feel proud or vain about making life hard for yourself and being a tough bugger. Do you want scars from heart surgery too?
- Break with traditions and try something new.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger
Let your anger course through your veins as genuinely as you feel it. Let it go in, but flip it inside so it comes out as controlled desire to resolve the issue. Action is the answer, not emotion. Allow emotion, but only within. In the world without, use control, action and determination/deliberation. Anger directed outside creates karma. Anger felt within but directed outside as extra-determined energy to create an answer, creates control and resolution.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger > Chronic anger
The most important thing is to never suppress your anger. Never deny your emotions. But never let them rule. Self-denial or emotive outburst is the path of least resistance to destruction and bad karma.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Depression
Nietzsche said "Woman is ego personified". An excellent proof that woman is ego is that they get depressed far more often than men. A lot of politicians often get depressed as well, because they are the tribune (hooker) of the people, and thus ego personified also. Depression is ego-driven.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Compulsion & Addiction
A compulsion is a ritual. Break or hoax the ritual, and the compulsion lessens.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Compulsion & Addiction
Addictions can't be let go, they are outgrown.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Compulsion & Addiction
If it is too hard to imagine an addiction-free life, try it just for one evening. Do it one day at a time.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Stress reduction
Share the tips on this page with others.
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Main > Health > Mental health > Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy technique for highly capable miserly philosophers:
Psychotherapy involves telling an expert anent being, to some degree, mentally unable to deal with one's problems, and getting their advice on how to become able; so, for those who know theoretically that they are already mentally capable, but are having difficulty making it real, it is possible to play both roles and at the same time avoid hefty psychotherapist's fees, travel time, and the considerable inconvenience of explaining one's history and/or providing ongoing philosophic-psychological training to a psychotherapist over a few months.
An useful technique is to speak into a recorder, then play it back to yourself. It activates different parts of the brain to speak and listen. Articulating it in speech also clarifies the problem. Best of all, there is no interruption to one's thoughts, as an unfamiliarised listening expert would create. The aim is to understand oneself better. To use this technique, I suggest:
- Start the recording with the date, time and theme
- Explain the general problem
- Explain how it plays out in one's everyday life
- Focus on recurrent problematic thoughts / beliefs, and nail down a few choice ones to challenge
- Create one or two thoughts / beliefs that will put one on the path to recovery
- Visualise using the improved thoughts in specific scenarios
- Apply daily until it becomes a new habit
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Main > Health > Mental health > Anger > Chronic anger
Dealing with chronic anger:
Chronic, violent anger is often more commonly associated with men than women, but this may be because men are typically physically more powerful than women, and therefore a man's chronic anger can have more disastrous consequences.
Anger is an emotional reaction to a perception of threat and danger to oneself or others, so the underlying stronger emotion is fear.
Chronic, violent anger develops into a habit, when a person has experienced fear intensely and repeatedly, and cannot overcome the fear rationally. This may begin as a child, especially when the child's ability to deal with fear is diminished, e.g. by parent failure to assist, or mockery, and so forth.
Overcoming chronic anger and fear takes repeated patient thought-overhauling, with lots of honesty with one's self, as it is hard to relinquish the feeling of personal security that an attacking personality provides to a chronically timid being.
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