RE: Emotions and Practising self compassion -Day 63 slimming journal
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I don't really know honestly. I don't have set words for those sorts of things.
I tend to give my honest opinion when people I care about are down based on what they are saying, while also trying not to dismiss their feelings about it. I tend to deal with it all factually. If it's related to a bad situation that can be temporary, I'll sometimes mention that it's a temporary, because everything is, and I have found that somewhat comforting in times when life has been hard, but that's about the only consistent thing I guess.
As for self-compassion, it is important or at least stopping self-hatred is, and I'm learning how to do that now, but I'm definitely not there yet. I don't expect it to be easy to stop self-hatred and idk if stopping it is even possible but I still want to hate myself less at least.
I'm also not great at observing my emotions but I don't think it was that I learned to ignore them. I think I'm just not very good at recognising them. I'm more likely to just feel shitty and not know why unless I take time to process what is going on (and even then I don't always work it out) or to think I feel fine but not realise I'm actually not fine until it becomes more obvious.
Wow! I appreciate your honesty. Your comment actually made me realise that there is so much to learn about our inner self. I personally like this process as it really improves my daily live, ones I learn quickly enough what bothers me.
I am currently looking more into mindfulness and meditation as it’s just awesome for my wellbeing, I purchased the app called “calm” for my android and it’s just amazing!
There are so many different meditation types and I can choose what I want to heal quicker.
Thank you for stopping by, I hope you will have a wonderful day today😉
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I haven't tried calm before. It sounds good that it has multiple types of meditations in it. I have a Headspace subscription and it works well. It's a lot better than my earlier attempts at meditation when I was younger. I looked into Buddhism for a while as a teen and their meditation was all about reaching Nirvana (the state where you stop producing karma, not the band) which meant it was focused around "not thinking". As a teenage girl with ADHD (undiagnosed at the time) that was impossible and just got frustrating. I might as well have been trying to shoot fireballs out of my hand.
Headspace uses guided meditations and has actually been quite useful unlike the "stop thinking" style of meditation.
I also downloaded a meditation program for our Oculus Rift (VR headset) but I haven't tried that out yet. I'll have to sometime. Most of the headspace ones have you do some of it with your eyes open but ultimately close your eyes during the meditation, but I'd assume in VR you wouldn't close your eyes (otherwise why be in VR), so I imagine that will be a completely different experience again. Not sure what it will be like but it is definitely worth a try.