10 ways to navigate a bad mental health day pt. 1 🫶 #advice #selfimprovement #motivation

10 ways to navigate a bad mental health day pt. 1 🫶 #advice #selfimprovement #motivation

10 ways to navigate a bad mental health day, part one. First, do stuff to ground yourself. Breathe. Take a second to just ground yourself and remind your body and your mind that you are okay and you are safe. Everything is okay right now. And 99.9% of the problems that you are anxious about are in your head, sweetie. Calming your parasympathetic nervous system does a lot more for you and your mental health than you might ever think. Also, go outside, touch some grass, interact with people. I know that some days you’re just going to want to haul up and be a hermit, but that is a highway lane to spiraling into negativity. So, even if it’s just calling a good friend or a loved one, just try to get some interaction with somebody else. You’ll feel so much better. Two is setting your intention for the day. I do this in the morning by doing some meditation to ground myself or calm my anxiety or just journaling out what I want to do for the day and the kind of mindset that I want to hold for that day. Alongside this, you need to recognize that today you’re just not going to have as much energy as you usually do or enough mental capacity to be at peak performance. And that is completely fine. You just need to be honest with yourself about that so that you set realistic expectations and intentions for yourself so that you can feel good about yourself at the end of the day for giving the best that you had and not beat yourself up for for not giving what you literally didn’t have to give. Three is sometimes you just need some freaking caffeine. Obviously having quality sleep, more rest is the best possible scenario, but sometimes that’s just not realistic or even if you do, your body is just still tired. But in that case, literally just go get an Americano girl. Get yourself the matcha, the coffee. Sometimes a lot of my negative spiraling comes from literally just the fact that I’m too tired to function and I feel like crying. But then a cup of coffee solves that. So four is actually a mindset shift and it is thinking to yourself that this too shall pass. This ain’t permanent, sis. You’ve gotten through worse before. I know you have. And it’s going to feel so good and so much better once you’re on the other side of this. I I promise. Five. Remember that feelings aren’t facts. I like to treat every self-deprecating thought that I have as a little tiny hater in the back of my brain telling me, “Oh, you’re like not good at this,” or, “Oh, you’re like such a failure.” They’re just saying things to derail you. That doesn’t mean it’s true. For example, if I get thoughts that are like, “Oh, I look so ugly today.” Or, “Oh, I feel like such a failure.” reframe that too from the third person. So, oh, you look so ugly today. You’re such a failure. Excuse me, what? That makes it so much easier to literally just swat those negative thoughts away and act as if they aren’t true and aren’t applicable to you because they aren’t. Alternatively, this is my secret weapon. You can envision those thoughts and that hater as an in real life hater that you have. You’re not going to let them talk to you like that, are you, sweetie?