Mat, I recently read the book "What Happy People Know" the other week when I was down in the dumps, feeling extremely hopeless and overloaded with physical (and mental) anxiety I could not get rid of.
This made me realize some things that would benefit me long-term. Is that you cannot choose to be happy but there are 12 qualities of happiness. I would assume that Alpha and others take care of the majority. However, one thing I lacked was Gratitude and Appreciation. And I started that sub, right now going through a rough resistance patch...but, the initial effects/high were spectacular. Not only in the moment, but completely content and happy with the things I had. It can only get better and I realized because I wasn't grateful, appreciative and loving, I had a lot of fear inside of me.
The book mentions gratitude, love, and appreciation are the root fix for fear. And I'm doing this experiment at the moment. We'll see in the next week or so.
And Spiral's mention of the book "The Power of Now" is a great read. But I found it interesting with the Gratitude sub I feel more inclined to develop a better sense of spirituality in myself and I want to focus more on the present moment and being mentally "Ok".
Eckhart Tolle, the author of "The Power of Now" started living in the moment after a horrible cause of suicidal depression and anxiety that crippled his mind to just simply "shut off". I've experienced this many times, that your mind goes into overload and has to sort of shut off for a while to cool down. This can make you experience the moment since you're not thinking much anymore. Of course, not a healthy way of getting to such point but it helped him realize, the moment can overcome anxiety, depression, worry, fears, and physical health problems, if you practice it.
Carpe Diem is a good one for this and is still on my list to continue. I may be deciding to use that after a rough anxiety patch the last 2 days.
Sometimes, and especially lately, I feel like a broken toy that cannot be fixed. Like there is so much physically and mentally wrong with me. The anxiety can be crippling to me. The depression isn't as bad but just makes me dread the future. I want these issues to go away, I don't want to live with the suffering of these things anymore so now I am putting these theories to the test to overcome my issues of not trusting in myself (and my health), worry about the future and esp. the unknown, and feeling like I do not deserve nor have good things in my life all of which I believe can be tackled by living in the moment...and being content with what you have through gratitude, appreciation and self acceptance.
Ryan
This made me realize some things that would benefit me long-term. Is that you cannot choose to be happy but there are 12 qualities of happiness. I would assume that Alpha and others take care of the majority. However, one thing I lacked was Gratitude and Appreciation. And I started that sub, right now going through a rough resistance patch...but, the initial effects/high were spectacular. Not only in the moment, but completely content and happy with the things I had. It can only get better and I realized because I wasn't grateful, appreciative and loving, I had a lot of fear inside of me.
The book mentions gratitude, love, and appreciation are the root fix for fear. And I'm doing this experiment at the moment. We'll see in the next week or so.
And Spiral's mention of the book "The Power of Now" is a great read. But I found it interesting with the Gratitude sub I feel more inclined to develop a better sense of spirituality in myself and I want to focus more on the present moment and being mentally "Ok".
Eckhart Tolle, the author of "The Power of Now" started living in the moment after a horrible cause of suicidal depression and anxiety that crippled his mind to just simply "shut off". I've experienced this many times, that your mind goes into overload and has to sort of shut off for a while to cool down. This can make you experience the moment since you're not thinking much anymore. Of course, not a healthy way of getting to such point but it helped him realize, the moment can overcome anxiety, depression, worry, fears, and physical health problems, if you practice it.
Carpe Diem is a good one for this and is still on my list to continue. I may be deciding to use that after a rough anxiety patch the last 2 days.
Sometimes, and especially lately, I feel like a broken toy that cannot be fixed. Like there is so much physically and mentally wrong with me. The anxiety can be crippling to me. The depression isn't as bad but just makes me dread the future. I want these issues to go away, I don't want to live with the suffering of these things anymore so now I am putting these theories to the test to overcome my issues of not trusting in myself (and my health), worry about the future and esp. the unknown, and feeling like I do not deserve nor have good things in my life all of which I believe can be tackled by living in the moment...and being content with what you have through gratitude, appreciation and self acceptance.
Ryan
