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how do you connect to "your power"

HopefulWarriorSenior Contributor13 May 2020, 6:54 pm AEST

how do you connect to "your power"

hi all and good evening - hope you're all having a nice evening

@NatureLover @Maggie @outlander @Shaz51 @Dizzylizzy

need advice. i've tagged a few people of those i can remember but happy for anyone to reply.

find myself, AGAIN, in the vortex of using behaviours throughout my day to effectively manage anxiety, depression etc - to numb, then often feel like shite in the evening and it all comes undone.

my team have flagged that things physcially are going downhill, but even that is not motivating me to switch gears.

and at times i can even see myself from above in like a bubble going about my day to day life - floating around others and feeling/ appreciating how disconnected i am from others and life in general.

everything I read or talk to team relates to "choosing in the moment to do something different" but that seems, at times, impossible. i'm scared to leave my comfort zone, even when at times this construct can feel like a prison.

how have others dealt with this?

have you had success in connecting / plugging into this "power"?

i'm sending this off and hoping it makes sense . didn't want or think helpful to go into specifics of behaviours so as to not trigger others.

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HopefulWarriorSenior Contributor23 May 2020, 6:54 pm AEST

Re: how do you connect to "your power"

Thank you for your kind words @Maggie

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HopefulWarriorSenior Contributor23 May 2020, 7:04 pm AEST

Re: how do you connect to "your power"

@NatureLover yes I'm traveling OK thank you. This admission is to slow down and regroup. Get back into practicing better self care routine vs running myself into the ground.

Happy to explain how I view "connecting into your power" ......

Stepping out from the darkness (which for me has been ostrich like head in the sand) and making more proactive/assertive choices in regards to life.

I have spent alot of my life deferring to others for opinions on what I should do, not convinced I knew right.

Suppose in essence it's about trusting and connecting to the idea that you know what's best for you. And trying to follow that plan.

I do need to cavat that by saying with MH issues this can be tricky cause your brain / illness can tell you one thing but actually what's good for you in something else. Think that's where I came unglued. It got pretty fuzzy.

Does that make more sense?

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NatureLoverSenior Contributor23 May 2020, 7:42 pm AEST

Re: how do you connect to "your power"

Thanks for explaining, @HopefulWarrior .

@HopefulWarrior wrote:
Suppose in essence it's about trusting and connecting to the idea that you know what's best for you. And trying to follow that plan.

This makes sense, yes. And I can see how MI issues would complicate and confuse this, from my own experience.

I'm glad to hear you're OK and the hospital admission is for better self care.

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Guiding_LightSenior Contributor24 May 2020, 8:47 am AEST

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Hello,@NatureLover
It is explained in my last post, in essence, it's about being in the driver seat of your life to steer it in the direction you prefer, being the master of your own ship.

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