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I’m going to list some things I’m grateful for from this last week and deny any mental attempts to twist them into negatives, and then I’m going to list things that caused me pain but find gratitude in them, and finally I’m going to list a few things that tend to cheer me up, and…

The last few weeks have been a mixture of newfound mindfulness clashing with an apparent regression in mood. I’ve gone from feeling pleasant and capable of experiencing variety and change to feeling mentally secure but physically uncomfortable, to feeling mentally uncomfortable and physically less uncomfortable. Real boats rock, but sliding into the trough feels worse…

I see time as a river, and myself as a rock. Days flow past, sometimes by the minute, sometimes hours at a time. The speed of the river is not important, because the self is always experiencing the same moment. For example, we often consider time as a linear arrow, with the past leading causally…

Something I’ve found very helpful recently is turning moments that would previously have inflicted emotional pain on me into moments of gratitude. When I am in a rush to arrive somewhere on time and realize 10 minutes into my drive that I forgot my wallet at home, previously I would have filed this under a…

How can one expect to find the truths of their own mental health out for themselves, if they are not willing to make mistakes? I am going to keep several goals in mind when it comes to trying new things.

As many who struggle with mental health know, I spend a lot of time contemplating how to improve myself. Most times I try and think of “myself”, the results feel disorganized. My thoughts are often in conflict with my feelings, and I often find myself struggling to understand myself because the self I belong to…

Mindfulness, from what I understand, is staying within the boundaries of your senses. It means choosing to stay in the present moment. Despite the root word, there is not much mental activity involved, at least from my experience so far. From what I have observed, moments of mindfulness resemble the “flow” state that athletes and…