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I feel you, I was blocked for 25years.
And then I stumbled upon Julia Cameron's "The artist's way"
It's a toolbox, packed with exercices and inspirational quotes, It's a course in several chapter to unblock you and pick off your shoulders all those bricks of compressed bad feelings abd false beliefs that are bringing you down. You'll need a notebook and pencil, and often your art tools too.
It has effectively unblocked me. I can create again, instead of just piling up new crafts and arts materials (I just have to buy my favourite watercolor when there's 30% off, even if I know I won't use it in the near future, for instance), that came in handy now that I'm unblocked and with the lockdown.
The link sends you to the "look inside" feature so you can see how it's organized. I didn't follow the 12weeks timeline, I just grab the book and continue when I feel I'm ready for it.
I still do the Morning Pages every now and then, to cleanse myself from any dark thoughts that are bringing me down, a little like a pensieve (HP).
Highly recommend it! But not in audio, this is a book you'll be going back to, better get the paperback.
>I feel I am emotionally weak. I lack the confidence in me to complete the task. I can complete the task but I am not confident.
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I'm not sure on a specific book, but just an observation for you from a third party: these are all negative thought statements about yourself / self-deprecation (well, last one is 50/50). A LOT of people do this, but it can screw you up over time if you do it often.
Too much self-deprecation is bad for you. The mental toughness I think you're seeking is the ability to rewire your thoughts in a more helpful way. For instance - instead of a permanent statement about yourself - try to reframe problems in terms of a temporary external force. Instead of "I am emotionally weak" maybe you can start to notice "I haven't been getting enough rest.", or, in this case - maybe "My negative thoughts about myself are hurting my motivation". These types of thoughts easily lead to action. "get more sleep" or "be more mindful".
I know that being more mindful is difficult. On second thought, I have thought of a book. If you think more of the above type of advice would help you, try : https://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind-ebook/dp/B005DB6S7K - it digs into the exact thought mechanisms that lead to 'learned helplessness' and teach you to turn it to action / optimism
Not super sure if this will help, but my WS seems to be making progress dealing with spirals with IC teaching him self-soothing stuff (meditation, derp breathing, coming to me for reassurance, etc) plus the book Daring Greatly by Brene Brown. My WS has got a lot stewing around in his head so I can't tell you what it is in that book or what other things regarding shame hes thinking of.. but there is a section in there for "shame resilience."
She's got a lot of you tube videos and books that i don't know much about. But my WS said this Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/iCvmsMzlF7o was a good preview of the beginning part of the book he's reading. So you guys can check it out and see if theres stuff in there that seem like a good match for what can help.
Reminds me of a book I love that might help you as well! It’s about how to work with each emotion. It’s amazing!
‘Letting Go - David R. Hawkins’
https://www.amazon.com/Letting-Go-David-R-Hawkins-ebook/dp/B00EY818TQ
I truly understand where you’re coming from. I loved writing when I was a kid and then, for unfathomable reasons (to me now at almost 50) stepped away from it. I want to recommend this book—it has changed my life:
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Even if you do only some of the exercises, this book can help change you’re thinking and get back in touch with the writer inside you.
>I just want to let it go and move on.
Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins. Cannot recommend it enough.
Regarding art block. There's a great book called The Artist's Way. https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary-ebook/dp/B006H19H3M
It can get a little too meta-spiritual for some, but it is filled with processes and thoughts on nurturing the creative spirit. It requires some real work, but its well worth it in my opinion. Morning Pages alone is a big game changer.
Rather than any dreck I might produce, I will refer you to Learned Optimism by Martin EP Seligman.
https://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind-ebook/dp/B005DB6S7K
Also, Erik Erikson's Life Stages Theory
https://www.verywellmind.com/erik-eriksons-stages-of-psychosocial-development-2795740
Honestly, this book might help. The author is a Capricorn and I think her approach would vibe with your Capricorn side. https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Kink-Unmask-Embrace-getting-ebook/dp/B07XMG4BWN
This may sound harsh. For that, I'm sorry...
You keep saying "I should have..." You cannot unfuck a situation after the fact. Sitting around wallowing in the shoulds of the past are not doing anything positive for you. You're merely creating your anxiety.
You're very very young. That's both a good and a troublesome thing. Good because this happened young. You have your entire life ahead of you. Troublesome, because you're young and haven't yet developed the life skills and emotional maturity to know how exactly to cope with what you're feeling. Neither of these things are bad. My brother, I promise you'll get through this.
This book changed not only my outlook, but also my life, for the better. Maybe it can help you.
F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K3VTLP8/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_ZM30V0JC4MVS2S4H2ZEX
Last, look into mindfulness practice. I think it will be so helpful.
I know it hurts buddy. However, I promise, it will get better.
(((Hugs)))
You should read this book. It’s fascinating. A lot of research coming about about how emotional trauma can lead to physical ailments.
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Supernatural-Common-People-Uncommon-ebook/dp/B0746RN3G7/ref=nodl_
I started with the book Existential Kink I’ve also found astrology and tarot to be incredibly beneficial along with a daily journal. Hope this helps get you started!
What initially looks and sounds like a joke is revealed over a relatively short count of pages to be the ultimate side road away from fear, anger, and sadness. I still have my issues of course as anyone does, but it's a lot easier for me to let a lot of things go because of this book.
I do, though it’s important to remember that the offscreen negotiation and communication are huge. It’s like 10% cute memey shit and 90% just doing life. But like, there’s a lot of cute memey shit. It’s great.
It’s also worth noting that a lot more women would be into it if we weren’t socialized that being dominant is bad. I was a “service top” for the first few years but now that I’ve worked through a lot of that repression it was like “Oh I AM sadistic! Who knew!”
One of the things that helped it click for me is the book Existential Kink which I highly highly recommend.
Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power (A method for getting what you want by getting off on what you don’t) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XMG4BWN/
You are sabotaging yourself. Get this book. It’s a bit obscure, but it addresses exactly your situation. It may be worth buying. I got the audio version.
I really want to see your chart so I can help tell you more about these cycles.
In the meantime, yes, you can break these patterns. The first step is to accept that you are the one who keeps reaching for the sane thing; there is something in these guys that you want, and you keep getting it. It’s probably something you’ve repressed, a desire you deny in yourself.
Once you accept that and figure out what The Thing is, you need to embrace it. Let yourself want it openly and consciously.
I learned this from Existential Kink by Caroline Elliott.
We ALL end up in repeating patterns with relationships, although not quite as carbon-copy as yours seem to be. We all seek out something familiar in our romantic partners. It’s usually something that reminds us of our most emotionally elusive parent. My dad is neglectful and absent, and I’ve always chosen guys who were similar somehow.
Let me explain Karma. Its not this “bad consequences for bad deeds” thing that us Westerners think. Our life is like a school for our soul, and karma is like the classes we take, and we take them over and over and over until we finally feel like we’ve learned. That’s the Karmic cycle.
It does seem like your soul is trying to learn something through these guys. You’re beating yourself over the head with SOME kind of message you’re trying to understand. Ultimately, only you are the one able to reach deep enough within yourself to find out what that message is.
I’m going to recommend you check this book out here. It is the most complete explanation into your nature, and how to fully unlock your potential as a spiritual being 🙏🏼
I've always been a big logic & reason guy so I relate to where you are coming from. The one book that really opened me up to this concept was "Becoming Supernatural" by Dr.Joe Dispenza. It is a heavy read but it contains a lot of the "science" behind LOA including brain scans.
It's honestly really fascinating, once I started practicing manifestation and truly surrendered/ fully bought in a lot of positive changes occurred. Ultimately I manifested something that on paper seemed impossible but did become reality so it's undeniable to me now.
Here's the book in case you decide to check it out: https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Supernatural-Common-People-Uncommon-ebook/dp/B0746RN3G7
Also pretty much all of the guided meditations he explains in the book can be found for free on youtube rather than paying a bunch for them.
This recommendation could be a bit lame for a guy, but you never know what kind of a shove you need. They have an audio add on for $0 with your $10 kindle purchase. I would do that.
Yeah, I wouldn’t like that either. He sounds like a questionable material in the first place.
Read this to figure out why are you still there.
Hey Twin! Thanks for this. Yes, you’re right. I guess it’s not just boredom but a feeling like I’m not doing enough. But pushing through. Trying to just “do” anything, even if it’s small. I think I read a few other posts of yours. I appreciate your honest check-ins. Also not sure if you’ve ever read The Artist’s Way . It’s not quit-lit, but a good change up if you’re looking for something that’s still guided and is geared toward creativity (which can definitely fill boredom gaps!), and might take your mind off just “I will not drink”. My friend has been recommending it to me for years but I only just bought it. Writing morning pages is already helpful.
I recommend The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. It doesn't directly address CPTSD, but it does talk a lot about the inner critic (Cameron calls it the censor) and the inner child. There are a lot of exercises that are helpful.
That's good, you sound like a good friend. It's hard to completely accept where someone else is at if to us it seems frustrating and self-defeating. My sister suffers from a number of anxiety disorders and Narcissistic personality disorder, I guess I always wanted to help her stop suffering too and I could see that she never really helped herself. I just think that, yes you obviously care for your friend and I obviously care for my sister, but that stuff is also so much about us. We are having such a strong reaction to them not helping themselves because of our own issues. Now she is in CBT, which is what I advised her to do ages ago. But I haven't bothered to invest myself in what she needs for a while, in terms of mental health support, because she just wasn't interested - so why add to my own stress? I'm not giving her what she 'needs' anyway with the advice, it's her journey, not my journey. All I can do is love and accept her as she is, where she is at. As frustrating as it might be, I couldn't make her do anything - all I could do was love and understand her and that is how I could help her in my own way.
All depressed people suffer from learned helplessness, it’s what leads to people feeling depressed (beyond biochemical reasons or emotional flashbacks from trauma). Not necessarily the same as not doing anything about it, but does highlight why someone may feel that way and why they would feel that everything is pointless and nothing will work. I feel that way but I see that that is not rational and I will push through and do it anyway.
You could try gifting him the book written by the man who came up with the concept of Learned Helplessness, in which he discusses it’s antidote.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005DB6S7K/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Good luck with your friend.
Tienes que practicar no prestarle atención a esa parte de ti que te dice que no tienes nada interesante que escribir.
Te propongo un ejercicio que leí en un libro. Cada día tienes que rellenar 3 páginas. Solo hay dos reglas:
- No puedes corregir nada de lo que escribas. Tienes que dejar faltas de ortografía, gramática, typos, etc.
- No puedes detenerte a pensar qué vas a escribir. Tienes que escribir "en automático".
Escribe lo primero que se te pase por la mente. Da igual si es una tontería o no tiene sentido. Si no sabes qué escribir escribe "no se qué escribir" hasta que rellenes las 3 páginas.
El objetivo no es hacer literatura ni escribir bien, es rellenar papel. La autora del libro dice que es mejor escribir a mano, pero yo creo que es cuestión de gustos.
I have read a lot of books on self-help and spirituality, and Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender is definitely the best one I've found.
Can I recommend a book? Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender. It has been extremely helpful to me in dealing with the same negative emotions you seem to have.
The key point in the book is basically let go of negative emotions anytime you want to. Among other things it explains that a negative feeling can be the source of thousands or even millions of thoughts.
I suggest you to look at the feeling which is fueling these thoughts you're having. Ignore the thoughts, and just acknowledge the feeling. Then if you want to you can simply let go of this feeling. When you realize that don't need the feeling it pretty much evaporates by itself.
> there's being me someone who hasn't even talked to a girl for five plus minutes there's a big difference between the two
I'll say it one more time: Why is that a problem?
>You know what just forget it you're clearly one of those conspiracy theory wack jobs
umm.. ok.. not sure where you got that from. I got some of my beliefs from books such as this: https://www.amazon.com/Letting-Go-Surrender-David-Hawkins-ebook/dp/B00EY818TQ/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Is the author of that book a "conspiracy theory wack job"?
The reason you are scared of others perceiving you as a "creep" is because of your PRIDE and EGO. The solution to your problems is to LET GO of your pride
Letting go means being AWARE of your fears, LETTING it come up and run its course without RESISTING it. SURRENDER to it. For example, just imagine some people say directly in your face that you're creepy as fuck. Just LET them say that without resisting.
By letting go, the "real" you just WITNESSES the thoughts and feelings your ego wants you to feel. By letting go, you stop identifying with your EGO and you will free yourself from the need to "win" and outcompete others.
Prideful people are CONSTANTLY DEFENSIVE/scared and are DRAINED of energy. OTOH, humble people CAN'T be humiliated because they let go of pride. Having ego increases your fear. When you no longer need to PROTECT your ego, criticisms and insults will NOT hurt because there is nothing to PROTECT
People buy expensive clothes and cars, crave social status to protect their ego. It's sad and astonishing how most people in our society end up being manipulated into working jobs they hate just so they can earn enough money on stuff they don't need just because it improves their social status. The simple solution to their problems is to just LET GO OF PRIDE
The other way to overcome your fear is with self-acceptance. You need to acknowledge all the parts of yourself that you dislike and hate. By ACKNOWLEDGING Them, they no longer control you
I used to feel hopeless by you. Reading this book helped alot: https://www.amazon.com/Letting-Go-Surrender-David-Hawkins-ebook/dp/B00EY818TQ/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8#customerReviews
If you are open to a popular rather than a scholarly text, I can recommend Brene Brown (although she has the scholarly credentials), The Gifts of Imperfection. She writes a lot about the challenges of being authentic, showing your true self, in particular your vulnerability.
https://www.amazon.com/Gifts-Imperfection-Think-Supposed-Embrace-ebook/dp/B00BS03LL6