Feelings - HTHT | Emotional Chaos

in #life7 years ago
"It´s not always the heart. Sometimes your mind breaks as well." - r.h. Sin



Have you ever felt an emotional chaos before? Not knowing how to feel because so many things are going on in your life? It doesnt matter what -  it could be about your life partner, business, family, exiting news or anything different. I tend to overthinking which is so annoying. I could sit on a bench for hours just thinking about stuff until my brain hurts. This is actually a bad feature of myself which I am trying to get away from and I believe many others tend to overthinking as well. I have read so many quotes, books and articles about overthinking and everyone says that you need to stop overthinking because you are going to create problems that arent there! Which is true, I often had moments where I used to think for hours about situations that didnt happen at the end. I could have spend this time in a much better way but I didnt. I chose the hard and useless way which I regret. 

Sometimes you will experience stages in life where a lot is going to happen. As you might know, I am not the oldest and if you switch from a teenager to a woman, you have to be focused especially when you aspire a successful carrier like I do. So you have to deal with personal stuff like emotions, family (especially if you have a big family like me. 5 siblings, their children etc.) business projects, paperwork, setting new goals for the future, friends, personal interests and so on. 

I couldnt agree more with this quote. Do you also create problems with your own thoughts? This could actually end things before they ever get the chance to develop. 

Is overthinking something like a fear? Yes it is. It truly is. 

If you would feel comfortable in a certain situation, you wouldnt think about how it might go wrong. If you put imagination, memories, emotions and imagination into these thoughts, the fear just becomes worse.

Overthinking leads to negative thoughts. Its not good for your mind, neither for your health. 

That´s a reason why I write this post today. I have found some great ways to clear your mind at least for a moment to reconnect with your soul and to maybe just breathe for a second or two...


1. Run / Workout 

Well, this sounds maybe a little bit too easy but working out really helps me to refocus and to clear my mind. I always do workouts, it´s in my daily schedule but whenever I want to relax my brain, I go all out! I push weights until I reached my maximum, I run until I am craving for water, I let out all my energy, this makes it easy to get rid of your negative energy as well. After these powerful exercises I´d like to drink a lot of water, sit down and take a rest for at least 30 minutes. 


2. Mediation

I am definitely not a specialist when it comes to meditation but I trying as good as I can. I can not give you any informative advices because I am also at the beginning like everyone who started with mediation. I really think its helpful to me to find a comfortable position that I wont change during the mediation, I´d like to wear a sleep mask to make sure the light isnt bothering me, I put on my mediation playlist on Spotify (no advertisement) and start to count my breathing. If I start to concentrate on my breathing, I also stop overthinking because I´m focused on the breathing technique. 


3. Read a book

Once I started to use a book as a deflection against overthinking, I was struggling. My brain just couldnt stop and I read the lines but couldnt realize what was happening in the book that I was reading. But after some tries I managed to put away this emotional chaos and to focus on the story that the author was trying to tell me! It has so many benefits - you give your mind a huge portion of brain food, concentrate on more important things and forget about negativity as well!


4. Take a walk 

Yes, as easy as it sounds, take a walk. I wrote a lot about nature in the past couple of days and my opinion is still the same. I feel a connection between me and mothers nature! Taking a walk helps you to reconnect with your soul, you will smell the fresh air and feel the love of the flowers and trees as well. 


5. Write down positive thoughts

Emotional chaos sometimes means that you need a new structure in your life. There is just too much to think about. Help your memory a little bit in writing down your thoughts but only the positive ones. And you dont use any electronics for it, use a paper and pencil to make sure you wont forget any of these listings!


6. Take a bath

No, I dont mean a regular bath! As you might know, taking a bath is great for your muscles, your spirit will calm down and you will feel relaxed after a while. If you add some etherial oils into the bath tube, you will notice a big difference. These oils will strengthen your relaxation. 


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These were some of my rituals that I do when I have to go through an emotional chaos. Refocusing and setting new goals is very important to me.


"Action prove who someone is, words just prove who they want to be! " 


I hope you will add some of those tips into your schedule and I would love to hear how you feel about it after tying it!

Thanks for reading 


Stay focused 

Love, Soldier 


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Maybe i am what you can call an overly optimistic person. I just enjoy what life has to offer and take on challenges. Because there is no such thing as a "problem." :)

Bathing really do calms me up, not only physically but also psychologically. **
It's soothes our muscles and calms the soul.**

(thumbs up for the anime lady in the tub, i automatically like when i see anime. XD)

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haha me too, I am obsessed with anime! Thank you for your thoughts and advices about being optimistic. It really leads you through difficult stages in life with having much pain!

Feelings are wonderful to express and learn from them. But I think the most important is to make a difference when we have to make a decision: feelings cannot be the lider. We have to use the reason even if we are talking about people we love, because sometimes, we hurt our close people because of making a emotional decision instead of rational decision.

Hi @soldier,

nice post, thank you very much for sharing. If you like to have some ideas for meditation books/retreats that could help you further, just let me know! Greetings @travellove

Great! I always love to learn more, especially about meditation, if you could recommend any books,that would be amazing !

I can highly recommend the book "Power of now" of Eckhard Tolle! And on YouTube there is a great teacher you can listen to "Little Insight Episodes" of the Phuket Meditation Centre. Have fun!

Sometimes, in some situations, you MUST overthinking!

I dont agree with that. Thinking about stuff is good before you need to think about it before deciding! But overthinking means to worrying which is bad for your mental health.

I agree with you . Staying positive is so very important. Staying positive can get you through any rough times.

Especially love the quotes you pick in each post!
The one posts with sincere heart is worthy of highly esteemed!👍

plus: I love to take a walk especially when my mind is in chaos. It does not only help to calm down but to purify the spirit, and I'm wondering if that's the magic of getting along with no one but ourselves!

Well said! Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Glad you enjoy my quotes

I love to read and play my favorite songs on the keyboard. You missed this important point, playing any musical instrument also kills the overthinking and we feel much relaxed. Can you share your meditation playlist here? I really need some good tracks to meditate.

I will do a spotify playlist and share it here with you, for sure !!!!
I dont play any musical instruments so I can not recommend it, because I havent tried it on my own! But I heard so much good stuff about it!

Yes dear I will wait for it. There are a lot of things which I have to learn from you. I am happy to find you here. I also made a post of water splash light bulb photo manipulation effect, check it now. You will really love it.

Great tips as usual! Funny you actually included going on walk, because that connects to blogpost I just posted "5 benefits of walking"

I saw your post and was thinking the same.

We didnt talk to each other for a few days cause we´re both so busy! So crazy that we used to choose similar themes

You both are the stemmit girls forever team.

You and @soldier made me get back on track about my fitness now 😎🙌🏼

Nice! Love to hear this

I always feel we both are somewhere connected to each other. Love this post about walking. This really reminds me to take a break, just jump into the nature and refocus your mind.

Very Beautiful Post @soldier . Every can relate this to their life , we all have been in same situation in our life. Nice points you covered and I sure it will help many of us. I liked 'Take a Bath' I will try this next time. Thanks for bringing wonderful life concepts . I love your posts , it's a delight reading them . Most of time I can relate them with my life. Thanks for being so positive and a hopeful view of life. Have a great day dear ☺

I am sure you will like a bath with etherial oils! Glad I you like it.

Its been a busy week for me . Didnt read many of your posts.. just catching up. You have great suggestions and if only we have the ability to do it consistsntly . I tried to workout,run and walk and i like to do it alone. That helps me think abt problems and solve it.. always great content from you and mrs steemit

Thank you! Physical activities are amazing to think about problems and solve them! Glad you are catching up right now!

I'll definitely try your all tips but firstly I'll write all my positive thoughts in mind thanx for sharing......

Great! First write down positive thoughts and after that start doing it