There is something about "reprogramming your mind" that interests me. For someone who has been learning by doing on getting better mental health, this concept can get kinda frustrating.
The idea that you, by yourself, can make a major change in your mental state is incredible but it does not happen from day to night, but daily and nightly with how you choose to live. We can always fall into old habits and we can stay mad and sad that we did, but we will only see a difference if we keep on going with the new habits we are building.
Our mind is programmed before we were born, studies show that our central memories keep memories from when we are being conceived in our mother's bellies and we can not access those memories but the impact they have on our behaviour and thinking are huge. And even before we are conceived, the genes and DNA we receive from our parents also carry ways of thinking and types of behaviour that, for us, their children, will be the first form of knowledge - because it's increased in us.
The daily choices between going back into old habits or keep going with the new are based on our mindset and we can have a mindset that is way ahead into the future, we can be living the present with intentions of a certain future but the question is if we have enough faith in that future for us to keep living the present the way we are visioning that future?
I'm in my last year of college - and damn if it is a mess -, all the stress and anxiety that I have been carrying has been falling into bad old habits (the things I have had last vision in and made me want to change my mindset time and time again) but I believe in living the present so that the future can arrive in its time. I can not let anxiety take control over my life.
Three years ago I was depressed and full of anxiety as I finished my final secondary school year. I didn't know if I would pass my exams and that was all I could see in front of me - my exams and when I passed them I had nothing, I had stopped thinking about college and I had shifted my mind to what I was going to do if I didn't pass - all I could think about was what my failure was going to look like.
Today, as I three years later sit on a beach in my hometown and look back, I realize I was in the same place. All these weeks I have been looking at the failure I am expecting of myself. Even though I talk about the future with an amazed face and brilliant things in my heart and mouth, the dough of it all took over.
And right now all I could think about was how did I get to the same place? I question my life, these three last years what were they about if I was just going to fail? And how did I get so messed up again to think that I'm not strong, able and wise enough to take this last semester and kill it - win it just for lighter words.
So the truth basically is that we will never know truly what's in front of us in the future, even the near one, but we can live with beliefs and those are the ones that carry our daily life, our present life. Our belief system is truly what leads us on and on every day.
QUESTION TIME: How is your belief system? How do you see yourself present? What do you think of yourself and your life?
If your answers are not nice, take a moment and write down what and why are those your answers. Can you analyse when you started thinking like that? Can you check yourself for marks? Make a plan to change, don't write the big things, but the little ones that you can do daily to increase and little by little change your mind and thought process for the better.
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