Tip: if you find yourself highly enjoying the beats of a specific song or songs but the lyrics are toxic and detrimental to consume regularly, try to find the instrumental for that particular song. Often times we listen to certain songs because of the high energy production that goes behind their instrumentals without realizing how harmful the lyrics can be for our subconscious mind.
how you program your mind when you’re at a low point is so impactful. resorting back to toxic patterns when you’re low is only strengthening those neural pathways and programming your mind to make those unhealthy choices or think those unhealthy thoughts every time you’re not feeling well. alternatively, trying your hardest to cope in a healthier way every time you’re feeling bad will strengthen those positive neural pathways, and as time goes on, it will become easier to make healthy choices and say no to toxic patterns. this of course isn’t to say that you should feel guilty if you relapse, it is not by any means easy to reprogram your brain and sometimes we relapse and that’s okay, so long as we’re trying our best to treat ourselves better.
Reminder to release and feel your emotions. The reason you want to cry is because your body wants to release and express that emotion. Don’t store your emotions in your mind and body. Release it. Stored emotions can literally manifest into discomfort in the body like pains, hair loss etc. So make sure you remind yourself that you are human, feeling is beyond normal. Thank god you can feel, thank god that you are a pile of mushy emotions. You are filled with love and passion and tears. There’s nothing wrong with that.
