Does my current behavior strengthen or weaken my/our capacity to function?
Why is that?
Category: Mental health
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“You can’t go forward, or be helped by treatment, until you accept its impossibility [of the wish], suck it up, and turn your bullshit wish into a goal that can actually be achieved.”
~ Michael I. Bennett, M.D. and Sarah Bennett: F*ck Feelings. One shrink’s practical advice for managing all life’s impossible problems. Simon & Schuster 2015.
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On Mental Resources
In my opinion, the most important resources of the human mind (besides food, nutrients and omega-3) are:
- Attention – the now resource, doing
- Attitude – the future resource, thinking
- Experience – the past resource, reflecting
When you want to become more resourceful or create new approaches to a life’s problem, it’s good to understand this triangle and how the angles feed or hinder the growth of the whole.
It’s not a one-day fix, but a good start is to pay attention (ha!) to the current weakest link and strengthen that process and its quality with daily practice, e.g.:
- Breathing exercises, meditation
- Reading books that challenge you, and
- Journaling.
When you have done these for ten years, do ten more years, and ten after that.