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Things I have learnt to do when I’m heading towards a crisis.

MulgajaneSenior Contributor29 July 2018, 7:07 am AEST

Things I have learnt to do when I’m heading towards a crisis.

1. Get outside and move my body. If I don’t move my body - everything gets stuck in my head.

2. Default all thoughts to today (no thinking about the past or future). I can’t stop my thoughts, but I can keep reminding myself to think about today - over and over again like moving the arm back to the start on an old fashioned record player.

3. Hand it over. Everything that I cannot control (and that is nearly everything) I throw it out to the Universe and say ‘Here - you take this.’

4. Touch. Get a hug. Lie in somebody’s arms. Stroke the cat. Lie on the ground with dogs in the sunshine. Lie on the Earth. Walk the beach with barefeet. Hug a tree. Have a bath.

5. Stop pretending to other people I can cope. Tell the truth. Break down crying.

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In response to: Things I have learnt to do when I’m heading towards a crisis.

MulgajaneSenior Contributor03 Sept 2018, 5:50 am AEST

Re: Things I have learnt to do when I’m heading towards a crisis.

@NatalieS You would laugh if you saw me on the soccer field. There are a few of us oldies (I only started playing sport at the age of 44 and I am in no mind to stop while i am having fun) and although I have learnt a few things in 6 years and am a valued member of the team, I am still the silliest. I am typically the one who will try to do a manouvre that I am incapable of (like a spectacular karate kick that misses the ball) and i recently got my first yellow card for failing to hear the whistle and taking the ball from the oppposition who was about to take a free kick - that was embarrasing.

But I am also known for laughing on the pitch because it is just a game. I wish work were more like that. Especially desk jobs and retail etc. The jobs that are about money and rules and stuff as aposed to the more important jobs which feed people and save lives. Even my ambo friends have a laugh.

I vote we all take everything less seriously and I also vote that we embrace our mistakes because mistakes have taught me everything i know!

And I know a lot 😉

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