Building resilience

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For a variety of reasons my mental health hasn't been great recently. My self esteem is quite low, and i feel like I have very low resilience when life challenges me.

I am trying to eat better, and drink more water.

Please could you all give me ideas for ways to boost my resilience so that when life throws me a hard ball, I have more strength to deal with it.

Thank you!

Remember the mind us like the dishes. Imagine you are giving your mind a wash. Get rid of any thoughts coming back to haunt you. Focus on the present task without overthink. Apply this to difficult situations.

@sweetsuzie thank you!

That is exactly what I need to do (and find very difficult)

Start by literally washing the dishes and choosing to listen to a podcast instead of your rambling thoughts. You will learn something new. You will like it. Don’t allow past problems to live on in your brain tent free.

Say thank you to the sky God situation when paying for food at a shop that you don’t have to go hungry. Say thank you that people have loved you and that they gave you support so far. Say this all the time instead of the whirlpool of thoughts. Show them the door and say ah, here you are coming back, no use in you wasting my life away with your return. Show them the door. Imagine a door at the back of your head and get the thought out. Keep doing things and keep present.

@sweetsuzie well I'm now being thankful for you!

It is so kind of you to come back with more. These are all so helpful.

Podcasts is a good idea- when I'm driving I struggle to control my thoughts. Podcasts would solve that.

The idea is to stay in the present. A little if people worry about past things, but these things are just stories we tell ourselves. They are no longer happening. Realising that Dan be very liberating.

Also don’t allow other peoples actions to control your life. You can only have responsibility to yourself and how you conduct yourself. Acceptance of life situation just as it is is a great gift.