I will pose a question. Do you really think that some of the lives you see out there is how it appears? Everyone is struggling in some way with something. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have any problems and as soon as they resolve a bunch of problems there are new ones. Even the most successful people have paid a price to come this far and keep paying a price. The two suicides of celebrities Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade makes the topic around suicide so real that it can happen to anyone. You just don’t know the amount of pain hiding in people who look like everything is going great. So this is why I find this topic so important. Be aware of what you are telling yourself and how much of the negative things you are going to believe. There is nothing to lose in believing in the positive to get you through things and you know what even if it’s a temporary positive illusion to get yourself out of the darkness then yes I would even go for that until you’re strong enough to really tell the negative stuff you tell yourself to go and f*** off. It takes practise to tame the mind but knowing who you really are and what you’re made of is crucial. Remind yourself of all the things you’ve made it through, that you’re still here today and that you still didn’t give up. Remind yourself of all your good values, what you stand for and that it’s that piece of you that got a piece of this planet we live in alight. I was the last person people thought would think about suicide and the fact that I’m here on this planet and made it through some really hectic things tells me that I have a whole lot of good things left to do on this planet. I had to do a lot of work around my thoughts. The following things have worked and still work for me: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Meditation Affirmations Visualisation Gratitude Prayer Exercise Eating healthy Acquiring mentors Learning (reading books, listening to entrepreneurs, listening to people who I see as role models, or seek the knowledge that I feel I require) Sit in silence and observe my thoughts Listen to uplifting music Meet like minded people Guard my beliefs, values and what I’ve acquired and acquire so that nothing negative can infiltrate it.
These days I go with the flow as I’ve had to work on myself for a couple of years, the way I go about doing things today is a bit different as I feel stronger however points 1 -13 remain consistent even to this day.
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