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Dealing With a Child’s Learning Disability?

Finding Out Your Child Has A Learning Disability: How Will You Maintain A Positive Outlook?

One of the worst things parents can ever experience is discovering that their child has a disability. Many will consider physical disabilities to be more difficult, but learning disabilities (e.g., dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD) can be just as challenging and devastating. No parent will be happy seeing their children struggling so early in their lives, and the thought of them facing hardships for their life can be heartbreaking. Despite all this, it’s imperative that parents maintain a positive outlook.

Having a learning disability doesn’t mean your child’s life is ruined. If that were the case, then personalities such as Tom Cruise and Adam Levine wouldn’t be as famous as they are. There are many people, famous or not, that succeeded in life despite having a learning disability, and nothing’s stopping your child from following suit. The first thing you need to do is to stay optimistic for the sake of your child and yourself.

6 Ways to Deal With you Child’s Learning Disability: Why is a positive outlook important?

What is a learning disability? How can children persevere through their condition if their parents have given up hope? The most important thing a child with a learning disability needs is support and encouragement from their loved ones. It’ll be difficult for any child, especially those with a disability, to remain positive if the only emotions they see from their parents are sadness, frustration, and anger. You shouldn’t hide all your emotions from your child, but always keep in mind that your disposition greatly affects them.

Remaining optimistic also helps you manage stress. With a brighter perspective of life, it’ll be harder for stress to take you down. Meaning you’ll remain stronger and be capable of constantly supporting your child. Here are ways you can maintain a positive outlook:

#1 Keep things in perspective

As mentioned above, a learning disability isn’t insurmountable, but your child will have a greater chance of succeeding through it with your support. You and your child will face plenty of challenges, and it can take a toll on your mental state. This is why it’s important to constantly remind yourself that the problems you currently have can be solved. Having this perspective allows you to keep pushing through the toughest of times. Reminding your child that their condition can be improved will also help them stay motivated.

#2 Educate yourself

Learning disabilities are easier to deal with if you are knowledgeable about them. As a parent, it’s up to you to study and research everything you need to know about your child’s condition. There are problems only experts can solve, but at the end of the day, you know your child the most. Every child is different, and even those who have the same disability will need different tools and strategies in learning. Knowing which resources are available, the definition of specific learning disability and how to access them will go a long way in their learning. There are organizations that evaluate children with disability; accessing these services will provide you with a better understanding of your child’s condition. 

Educating yourself not only allows you to provide better support for your child but also makes the job a lot easier. When you’re armed with knowledge, problems will feel less daunting, and it’ll be easier to remain optimistic.

#3 Manage your stress

Having a positive outlook towards your child’s condition helps in dampening the effects of stress on your mind and body. However, this also goes the other way around. When you’re struggling to manage stress, you’re unlikely to remain optimistic about life. People deal with stress differently, but there are general practices that everyone can follow to manage stress better.

#4 Don’t take stress home 

Dealing with your child’s condition at home can already be stressful, don’t make the situation worse by piling stress from work on top of it. It’s easier said than done, but it’s necessary for your mental health. Before heading home, it’s advisable to talk to your partner, friend, or coworker about your problems and feelings, helping you destress. Being aware of how you feel can also be helpful. If you have the time, you can do something you enjoy or just sit in your car while listening to soothing music. Consider every activity you can do to defuse your stress before going home.

#5 Take a break

It’s easy to lose time for rest between working and taking care of your child. You may even justify your lack of rest with your desire to provide everything your child needs. However, all you’re doing is burning yourself out, rendering you incapable of supporting your child. It’s important to find time for relaxation, so you can rejuvenate yourself and remain strong. Search for ways to unwind. Find which ones work the best for you and make them a regular part of your schedule.

#6 Ask for help

Many parents take pride in being able to care for themselves and their children without help from others. While not being dependent on others signifies one’s strength and capability, it’s not a good attitude to have in times of distress. You shouldn’t be ashamed of seeking help as everybody needs a helping hand from time to time. Whether you need assistance in caring for your child or need emotional or mental support, don’t hesitate to call your friends and relatives. If you need professional help, go reach out. You don’t need to suffer from a mental illness to go to therapy. You can deal with anxiety better if you see a therapist regularly. 

Conclusion

Staying optimistic is crucial in helping your child overcome the challenges that come with having a learning disability. How you approach your child’s condition will play a major role in their development. Keeping things in perspective, managing stress, and educating yourself are just a few of the many ways you can keep a positive outlook. Ultimately, only you can tell the best way you can keep your spirits up.

Stress Management Strategies: 5 Ways to Unwind

Did you know that by itself, stress is neither good nor bad? While most people would probably dream of having a life completely devoid of stress, without it, one may quickly get bored and lack zest for life or even get depressed. Some pressure or tension also hel[s us develop the emotional responses necessary for surviving and even thriving.

However, like with most extremes, having too much of it can be highly detrimental to your overall health. Today, stress is so commonplace in the workplace, costing the U.S. $300 billion annually in terms of insurance, decreased productivity, and work injuries and illnesses. 

At the same time, you also have to deal with stresses in the homefront and in your personal relationships. So, really, pressure is everywhere, and for as long as you live, you will have it in your life one way or another. Therefore, the way out of this dilemma is proper stress management. Here is a lowdown of some of the best unwinding strategies so you can learn how to deal with anxiety and live your life to the fullest.

5 Stress Management Strategies

Here are a few ways to destress with unwinding strategies:

1. Breathwork 

Have you noticed how you seem to have difficulty breathing when you’re tense? That’s because stress can tighten the muscles that help you inhale and exhale, causing your lungs and heart to work harder. At the same time, the resulting changes in your breathing patterns also cause gas imbalances in your body.

Breathing exercises, such as belly breathing and pursed-lip breathing, can be one of the most effective stress management strategies. You can also couple these with breathing techniques, such as 5-5-5 and 4-7-8 (the numbers refer to inhale-hold-exhale counts), which can help stabilize your heart rate and reduce the levels of the stress hormone cortisol in your blood.

2.Vagus Exercises

Your vagus nerve is a cranial nerve from the brain that connects the brainstem to the body. Among its essential functions is maintaining the equilibrium in your nervous system. It’s therefore responsible for managing alertness, blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing rate—in short, everything that enables you to stay calm and relaxed.

The medical community has turned to vagus nerve stimulation to address a variety of illnesses such as anxiety disorders and depression. You can also stimulate the vagus nerve on your own by belly breathing, as well as through laughing, loud gargling with water, loud singing, and immersing your face in cold water. See your doctor for other safe and creative vagus stimulation exercises.

3. “Girl Scout” Attitude

It used to be that being a girl scout was a thing. Whether they remain popular or not, their principles remain relevant today. For instance, the Girl Scout motto “Be prepared” will always come in handy. If you were to look back on a lot of stressful occasions in your life, you may discover that many of them could have been avoided with a little more planning here and there.

4. Self-care routine

Although it may seem like such a selfish act, in reality, self-care can be one of the most thoughtful things you can do for the people in your life. Confused? It works this way: If you’re able to give yourself the necessary TLC, you’re better equipped, mentally, physically, and emotionally to care for your loved ones. 

A consistent skincare routine not only allows you to have radiant skin, more refined pores, and a blemish-free complexion—all benefits of oil cleansing—but also reminds you that you are valuable and deserve to be taken care of. This helps you be in a positive frame of mind and increases your desire to uplift others.

5. The Power of Nature

In the Alishan Forest in central Taiwan, there’s a spot where you can just walk underneath some trees, and it’s supposed to extend your life by three minutes. Whether or not that’s true, science has long demonstrated that nature can be a powerful force in reducing stress. Although researchers haven’t pinpointed what it is in our natural environment that calms us, one study shows that 20 minutes surrounded by greenery can significantly drop cortisol levels and bring you to a peaceful state of mind.

The Takeaway 

Don’t let stress overrun your life. You needn’t go very far or wait too long to start doing something about it. With these five safe and effective ways to unwind, you can keep your anxiety under control to have the happy and meaningful life you’re meant to live. 

What is Social Media Anxiety and How Can We Cope With It?

Social Media! Boon or Bane?

We all are well aware of the pros and cons of Social Media. How its effective usage can help us grow and keep ourselves updated and how the over usage in an ineffective manner can lead to a bad experience and Social Media Anxiety.

If you ask me, Social Media for me is my Work Place, I respect others’ privacy, give proper credit and admiration to others’ content and I try to adopt the best available practices which can help me to learn and grow in my area.

I have always tested my addiction level by adopting Social Media Detox at frequent Intervals and it has never disappointed me 🙂

Research says, spending over six hours a day on social media accounts is enough evidence to conclude you have social media anxiety.
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What is Social Media Anxiety?

In recent years, social media has changed the way we interact with one another. Half of the world is present on social media, sharing moments, communicating, and engaging with one another digitally more than personally. This Social Media Buffon has not only successfully been able to change our communication process, but has also affected our overall mental well being.

Unfortunately, the daily updates on social media create room for unrealistic expectations, comparisons and low self-esteem among the users, leading to social media anxiety. The ones who are aware and mindful may not be as affected because they are more likely able to understand what’s realistic and what is not. On the other hand, people who are still trying to understand their own identity get impacted because they feel pressure to look in a certain way to others. Youth, in particular, can be negatively affected. 

Hence, Social media anxiety is somehow that deprived feeling of missing out on things. A fancy term FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) came into the limelight very recently that exactly explains how people cannot control the urge to check the phone to stay updated with what their friends are doing, where they are going, and what they are missing out?

That constant urge of posting everything you do, following the trends, following what others are doing and yet feeling unworthy of not doing enough, hits you badly in the long run.

“A number of likes don’t determine your social worth.“

-Priyanka

What causes Social Media anxiety?

That feeling of “not doing enough”.

When you feel inadequate, unworthy and left out in the digital rat race.

When you see someone moving ahead in the same path

When you compare your chapter 5 with someone’s chapter 20

When you don’t focus on the efforts one has put in his/her journey but see the rewards they get

Sometimes it is also the limited accessibility to the resources and support that causes one to stay behind.

Very recently, we had a very healthy discussion don’t he same topic where in we shared our thoughts and views on how social media change the way we think and how it has given an easy access to eveyone’s life. You can check out the highlights here- The Bloggers League.

How to Cope With Social Media Anxiety?

You have no idea how many people lurk at your work. No idea how many times people go back to revisit your work. How big they smile when they simply think about your work. How fast their heart beats, how excited they get when they see you posted something.

People are shy about their feedback. Sometimes it’s because they are simply shy. Other times it’s because they assume you already know how great and talented you are or maybe they just don’t understand what you are doing, sometimes it could be due to the language barrier and also due to priorities.

My point is even if you barely have any likes, comments, followers or reshares, don’t get discouraged, don’t lose your heart. You have a lot of silent fans, but they are still your fans.

Keep on creating amazing content. Because there is always someone who is waiting for your post and who loves your content genuinely 🙂

Keep it simple. Be original and never fall into the comparison zone, as you never know how the journey of a person would have been.

Few Basic Social Media Etiquettes to follow:

Think before you post anything on social media.Think before you comment.Think before you give your feedback in the form of a comment.Think before you put your negativity in someone else’s post.Think before you troll someone.Think before you approach someone.Think about whether what you are posting is reliable?Think, if it will inspire others?Be respectful.Be encouraging.Use please and thank you.Give due credits.Unfollow if you don’t like someone’s content instead of criticizing them.If you don’t agree with someone’s idea, don’t comment.If you think someone has a different opinion, don’t say it is wrong, opinions are never right or wrong.Check your intention.A number of likes don’t determine your social worth.Digital life is not a testament to your actual life.Remember that social media is a place where people put up the curated highlights of their life. So Judge less and avoid the comparison trap.Once in a while have a complete social media detox. It helps.

Love and light

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Priyanka Nair is the author of 26 Days 26 Ways for a Happier you and Ardhaviram. An NLP practitioner and Founder of Sanity Daily, helping you prioritize your mental health. Let’s build a happy community.

Here Are A Few Things You Should Never Say to Someone Going Through A Separation

In this blog, I am going to share a few things you should never say to someone going through a separation. Separation/divorce or break-up, any event of such type in an individual’s life creates a lot of emotional damage. No one is prepared to face it, no one thought this would happen, but now if it has happened, all one could do is pray for the strength to deal with it.

The healing from the pain and trauma due to the separation itself is huge to describe and to top that, people around us sometimes make it way too difficult to tackle the situation.

The one who is going through a separation or divorce trial is already facing a lot of mental distress, thoughts like future uncertainty, financial dependence, child’s upbringing, in some cases child’s custody, lengthy procedures take away a lot of mental energy and leaves the person out of place.

Amid all this, our relatives, friends, and acquaintance make it more difficult by saying mean things they should never say to someone who is going through a separation.

5 Things You Should Never Say to Someone Going Through A Separation

When two adults decide to part their ways, it is surely a well-thought decision, and no one else than you can decide this for yourself. It is you, who has experienced things that lead to such a point in your life. But, what are these things, I am talking out? What are the things you should never say to someone going through a separation, below is my 5 cent of advice to anyone out there who is reading this post:

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1.) It was your fault

Now there is no point discussing whose fault it was? The glass is broken into pieces and even if you try to gather all the pieces and try to fix it, you will not be able to bring back its strength and vigor.

2.) You should have stayed a little more

They might have stayed more than they could have tolerated.

3.) Whatever happened, happened for the good

At the point where in someone is going through the process of separation, they see no good, as everything is so uncertain and vivid. It is only after the things get mellow down, they gain some clarity and move ahead.

4.) Move on, find someone

One of the silliest things you should never say to someone going through a separation. Join Tinder! Swipe left when things don’t seem to be right. Meet new people, make new friends? No, it doesn’t just happen, everything takes time. Unless and until you are healed from the past completely, you cannot move on.

5.) What were you even thinking when you married him/her?

At the time of marriage or getting along with a partner we only see love and our beautiful future ahead with him/her. The reality hits only after getting married, under different circumstances, so no no one sees it coming.

What to say to someone going through a separation?

Now, before you wonder, what should when say to someone going through a separation, I will share a few things that can help you to break the ice and be comfortable with the situation. Try saying this:

1.) I can understand, how difficult it must be for you.

2.) Take your time and don’t rush on to things.

3.) Whatever you are feeling is valid and you don’t have to explain.

4.) You will be fine, allow yourself to heal.

5.) Shall we see a counsellor, if it helps you?

To conclude, I would say if we be mindful about the things you should never say to someone going through a separation, we might able to give them a better and safe space to vent, a space that is non-judgemental and unbiased.

Love and light

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Priyanka Nair is the author of 26 Days 26 Ways for a Happier you and Ardhaviram. An NLP practitioner and Founder of Sanity Daily, helping you prioritize your mental health. Let’s build a happy community.

This blog post is part of the blog challenge ‘Blogaberry Dazzle’ hosted by Cindy D’Silva and Noor Anand Chawla.

What Is A Vision Board and How to Create One?

In this blog, I am going to talk about my “Vision Board” for 2022. What is a vision board and why should you have one? We all set goals, but we lack the eye, the details and the way forward.

As many of you know I am a certified NLP practitioner, Yesterday in our NLP meetup session, we did a super fun and engaging activity under the guidance of our mentor Mr Sriram and it came out to be such a refreshing thing to do.

He walked us through the process of visualization and helped us identify what exactly we can make out of our coming times. This activity was not only engaging and productive but it also helped me to get closer to all my vivid thoughts, and I was also able to comprehend and reconcile all my scattered thoughts…So here’s to a super productive, motivating, powerful and mindblowing 2022. (At least this is what I thrive for)

What is a vision board?

A vision board is also known as a dream board, is often a pictorial compilation of your thoughts and dreams. We are no experts in interpreting our dreams and future, but we can certainly capture them and try to reach towards them.

In this process, we were asked to close our eyes and imagine everything we want to achieve in near future. Without being judgemental, leaving aside all the self-doubts and hesitation, just to go with the flow, and try to unlock the limitless and abundant possibilities.

Just like a movie screen, or a photo album, we were guided to capture all the achievements and attainment, even the minutest details. In the end, what is the vision board if it cannot capture our visions, dreams and aspirations?

https://anchor.fm/priyankajoshi/episodes/How-about-defining-a-Vision-Board-e1cru5dHow to create a vision board?

To create a vision board, you will need a few colourful magazines, newspapers, A4 size sheets, scissors, glue, sketch pens, colours, decorative items of your choice. You can just sit with ample of creative options so that once you are done with the process of visualization you can capture them in the most beautiful way.

I used an A4 size sheet since I didn’t have chart paper at that time. I used magazines to capture exact wording I saw in my vision, exact statements and quotes that would remind me of my dreams and goals.

You can exactly do the same, as soon as you are done visualization of your life ahead, you are expected to capture those moments in the form of words, images and statements and put them across the sheet or chart paper.

Make it as colourful and vibrant as possible and stick it somewhere you can access it often. Hang it or paste it in front of your work desk, living area, so that you can see it more often and stay closer to your dreams.

Remember, dreams don’t work, until you work on them. The aim of walking you all through this process of creating a vision board is just to help you stay focused and filter out what you exactly want in your life. Many of us lack that basic focus and purpose in life, so if you’re able to capture some purpose out of your life, you can definitely add meaning to it.

I wish that whoever is reading this post defines and sets a vision board for themselves, be as realistic as possible, touch your dreams, feel them and go grab them 👊

Love and Light

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Priyanka is a published author of 26 Days 26 Ways for a Happier you, Ardhaviram and Broken & Beautiful. An NLP practitioner and Founder of Sanity Daily, helping you prioritize your mental health. Let’s build a happy community.

What Creates Anxiety and How We Can Deal With it Naturally?

Anxiety is a cause of a lot of things, including traumatic triggers, re-living stressful events, overthinking about negative outcomes. It is possible to have anxiety if you are worrying too much about a situation or more. Suppressing your own needs and healing healthily to please people can cause anxiety. There are different types of anxiety that are induced in different situations. However, your reaction to anxiety corresponds to the deep-rooted fight-flight-freeze stress response in the human psyche. 

Individuals suffering from anxiety disorders usually experience severe, excessive, and chronic stress and fear about everyday events. Often, anxiety disorders are characterized by recurring episodes of acute dread, panic, or despair that peak within moments.

These anxiety and panic attacks interrupt daily activities, are difficult to regulate, are out of touch with reality, and can linger for an extended period of time. You can avoid certain locations or situations in order to avoid unpleasant feelings. Symptoms may begin in childhood or adolescence and persist throughout maturity. Anxiety is a result of diverse experiences, thoughts, and dreams that cause worry. This could explain why you have recurring dreams of seeing a dead person. 

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According to evolutionary psychology, the ability for anxiety is a determined species-wide adaptation that serves to alert and protect humans against a range of natural risks. Anxiety, in particular, serves to alert us to dangers to our biological potential. Thus, anxiety alarms sound strong not only in the face of imminent danger to life or limb, but also in the face of adversity to our possessions, position, reputation, or expertise. Anxiety serves as an excellent warning system about the numerous risks of loss.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

GAD is characterized by excessive anxiety that occurs for no apparent reason. GAD is determined when an individual has excessive worry over a variety of things for six months or longer. If you have a mild case, you should be able to carry on with your typical daily activities. Severe cases may have a significant effect on your life.

Social Anxiety Disorder

This illness is characterized by an overwhelming fear of public situations and the possibility of being evaluated or embarrassed by others. This extreme social phobia can cause an individual to feel humiliated and isolated.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

PTSD occurs as a result of observing or suffering a stressful event. Symptoms may manifest immediately or may take years to manifest. Warfare, natural calamities, or violent assaults are all common causes. PTSD episodes can occur suddenly and without notice.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

Individuals with OCD may feel frustrated by the desire to repeat specific rituals (compulsions) or by intrusive and unwelcome thoughts, which can be upsetting.  Impulses that are frequently encountered include compulsive hand-washing, counting, and analyzing something over and over again. Obsessions with cleanliness, violent tendencies, and a demand for perfection are all common. Trying to understand your patterns and why you feel the way you do may help your concerns.

Phobias

Phobia includes claustrophobia (fear of enclosed areas), acrophobia (fear of heights), and numerous others. You may be overcome with a strong desire to avoid the frightening object or circumstance. Instead of being scared, grieving in a healthy way with either therapy to understand why you are confused and lost may help you better. 

Anxiety disorder

This leads to panic episodes and irrational sensations of fear, worry, or impending doom. Irregular heartbeats, difficulty breathing, freeze response are all physical signs.  These attacks are unpredictable and can happen at any time. Having a response ready for such moments can help you cope with the episodes. 

6 Ways To Deal With Anxiety Naturally

There are numerous ways to deal with mild forms of anxiety by yourself. It is important to understand that anxiety, like any other illness or injury, should be given attention to. It is important to build healthy coping mechanisms. 

Natural Supplement

Since I talk a lot about mental health and seeking help, I would also like to stress the point that there is no shame in taking natural supplements to ease your pain and suffering. Recently, I came across XanFree Tranquil Blend a 30-day natural supply for anxiety.

It is a blend of 23 natural and herbal extracts, essential vitamins & minerals that enables a better quality of life. Promotes sound sleep and reduces stress and anxiety.

Maintain a Routine

Relax a bit. Yoga, music, meditation, a massage, or relaxation techniques can all help you unwind. Taking a step back from a problem can help you get some perspective.

Maintain a healthy diet. Don’t miss meals at any time. Always have a supply of healthy, energizing snacks on hand.

Healthy Habits

Caffeine and alcohol can exacerbate anxiety and even cause panic attacks, so keep them to a minimum. Make sure you’re getting enough shut-eye. When you’re under a lot of stress, your body craves extra sleep and relaxation.

Regular Exercise

Regular physical activity can improve your mood and keep your health in check. Here are some helpful hints for staying fit. Breathe slowly and deeply. Slowly inhale and exhale your lungs full of air. Slowly count to ten. Count to 20 if you have to, and then repeat. Give it your all. Make a point of being proud of your progress rather than striving for perfection, which is impossible.

Recognize the feeling of loss

Recognize that nothing is beyond your power. Take a step back and ask yourself, “Is this really so bad?” Humor is always welcome. A hearty laugh may do wonders. Maintaining an optimistic outlook will help you succeed. Instead of dwelling on the bad things in life that make you feel numb (like a break-up), try to see the good.

Engage in Enriching activities

Engage yourself with something. Volunteering or participating in community activities might help you build a support system and take a break from the stresses of daily life.

Find out what makes you anxious so you can avoid it in the future. It may be anything you can think of: work, family, school, etc. When you’re feeling worried or agitated, record your thoughts in a journal and look for a trend. Make a phone call. Friends and family members can be a great source of support if you’re feeling overwhelmed. Seek expert guidance from a doctor or therapist.

Sustaining Happiness For Better Mental Well-Being

What does it mean to sustain something —- To nourish? To support? or to stand by? Do we stand by ourselves? Do we nourish our happiness, do we cherish our bonds, relationships and do we at all focus on our mental health equally or somewhere near to our physical health?

In this blog, let us discuss the importance and a few ways of sustaining happiness for better mental well-being. Let us try to adopt a few life-altering habits to nourish what is already ours.

Sustaining Happiness For Better Mental Well-being

This is my last blog post for the year 2021, and I am definitely looking forward to the super productive year 2022. I have a lot of new things to share with you all, but I am holding my horses until everything is done.

How is it to live for better mental health? Honestly, it is not easy and for some people, it is not even on their priority list. But, when you hit the rock bottom in your life and face all your fears, looking them in eye yet having the courage to move with your life, you already know how does it feel going in that zone.

Somehow you become familiar with the pain and the suffering, the whole process of getting wounded, the time you take to heal and eventually come out of it, and then you no longer fear that pain, you just take care of it, protect yourself from all the painful areas. That’s how you learn to preserve your peace and sustain your happiness.

Nurturing and nourishing your mental health is an ongoing process, you just cannot help yourself if you are not aware of your unhappiness, your struggle, your failures, your triggers and your pain areas in life, which is very much a quintessential part of life. Sustaining happiness for better mental well-being because health is wealth and mental health is health.

Here are a few ways you can sustain happiness in your life:

1.) Find or create your stress-busters

Accept it or not, stress is a dominant part of everyone’s life. No one can get away without facing stressful events. It is not only the stress that creates havoc in our lives but also our inability to deal with it adds a lot of emotional turmoil, leading to an unhealthy mindset.

Hence, building or developing a few resilient coping skills will help us anti-combat such events, and work towards sustaining happiness for better mental well-being. It will not completely eradicate the problem but prepare us to face it with full strength and bounce back.

I have been in a severely stressful situation this year, probably one of the worst years of my life, but a part of me helped me to keep moving ahead. My willpower and the desire to live my life was way stronger than giving up on it. So, I create my own space and dedicated all my energy, it worked.

2.) Understand the patterns and stick to them

By the time you reach your 30’s, you start understanding yourself, isn’t it? You have already experienced a lot in your life, and your life becomes a complete package of good, bad, distasteful, disgusting and most precious moments.

These exact moments also help you to discover a few things about yourself, understand those patterns and try to break some of the negative patterns limiting yourself.

Never ever be afraid to learn or unlearn, I have been precisely unlearning a lot of things and keeping me open to receive more.

3.) Learn to deal with your feelings

Never dismiss your feeling, you need time to understand your feelings take time but never live in denial. Your happiness depends a lot more on your mental health aspect, if you feel happy from the inside, it radiates outside.

A lot depends upon how you feel from inside, some of the major life events leave you bruised and damaged internally and the worst part is these are like some invisible wounds, they leave no mark but only a deep ache in your heart. You cry in pain and suffer in silence, ultimately leading to deteriorating mental health and no one cares.

So, start caring for yourself. No one is going to come for you, no one is waiting for you, your first responsibility is you. And, by any chance, in this journey of yours, if you find someone who is ready to accept you the way you are, damaged, flawed, imperfect… you know what to do.

Happiness is a beautiful state of mind, do not try to fix everything just try to be a part of the process. Trust your path and eventually everything will start falling at the place. You cant have it all at the same time, but you can have it, one thing at a time. You will overcome this, you will thrive and survive, you just got to believe in yourself other than anybody else.

Love and light

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Priyanka is a published author of 26 Days 26 Ways for a Happier you, Ardhaviram and Broken & Beautiful. An NLP practitioner and Founder of Sanity Daily, helping you prioritize your mental health. Let’s build a happy community.

Why Do People Feel Numb After A Breakup?

Why do people feel numb after a breakup? Either they feel too much or they feel nothing. They put themselves on autopilot mode and go with the flow, or they plan a life ahead. Whatever way one chooses, breakups are painful, exhausting and heartbreaking (literally into million pieces).

Yes, I can say this because I have been there, done that, come on, who hasn’t. Have I overcome it? Not fully, because the wound is deeper and still fresh, but I am allowing myself all the time to heal and process things. What is important here is, the awareness and what I chose to do next? How do I look at my life beyond that ONE person?

Emotional healing takes time, and before anybody else, you need to understand this and allow things to process. How much are you aware of your pain, the root cause of the pain and not blurred by what others say or think about you. This awareness helps you in a way that even when you feel numb, you know this is a process and part of healing, in the long run, it can help you only if you don’t go too harsh on yourself.

Why do people feel numb after a breakup: 3 reasons

Honestly, a breakup is a very small word to describe the whole anatomy of separation and pain this horrible process includes. Reasons could be different based on the circumstances but the pain and suffering touch exactly the same chords of mind and heart for almost everybody.

Here are a few common reasons stating why do people feel numb after a breakup, you are free to add more in the comment section;

1.) For anyone who just went through an unexpected breakup, never thought or planned for a life without their partner, in such an event life takes a 360-degree turn. So when things fall apart, it is sometimes the acceptance part, that creates a hell lot of pain and turbulence in one’s life.

How does one accept that the person who was almost the centre of their universe is no more a part of their life? With their limited or no emotional reactivity, they often feel a lot of emotional distress which hampers their daily life. It is like watching the whole castle you had built once, collapsing right in front of your eyes and you stand there staring at it with frozen feet and blank eyes.

2.) Secondly, with unacceptance sometimes a person lives in denial and keep going back to the toxic patterns, getting stuck in their ex and this very denial causes a deep-rooted fog in the brain, hampering the vision, the clarity.

The loss of a loved one sometimes creates so much pain and trauma that besides feeling numb and lost the person also feel deprived of hope as if there is no tomorrow. Depression and persistent sadness creep in and if they aren’t lucky to have moral support, life becomes a total mess.

3.) Lastly, the lack of awareness of the situation leads to more problems, such as the person being ready to do anything to bring the lost love, ready to fall into the wrong relationship just to escape but not willing to give some time to self and allow the process to do its work.

I know it is not easy, the acceptance, denial and awareness part I am talking about, but trust me these basic mindfulness practises helps you to stay grounded and ease your anxiety. The more aware you are the more right decision you can make for your future self.

The more open you are to accepting what happened, the more you help yourself to overcome the pain and suffering, instead of focusing on why it happened.

The more you live in denial you make the process even harder, the more you stalk your ex, the more you carry the baggage of your past, the more difficult it becomes to even walk a single step.

I have come across this statement often where it is said that “Hurt people hurt others“, I never fully believed it until I experienced it for myself. Don’t let the bitterness of one relationship spread in other aspects of your life, don’t let that one person change the definition of love you knew.

And, most importantly don’t let one relationship leave you appalled to an extent where you start doubting your own self. You have got this, you can overcome this, just trust the process.

Love and light

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Priyanka is a published author of 26 Days 26 Ways for a Happier you, Ardhaviram and Broken & Beautiful. An NLP practitioner and Founder of Sanity Daily, helping you prioritize your mental health. Let’s build a happy community.

Fundamental Self-Care Tips for Busy Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship comes with its own set of challenges. It functions in various domains that need innovation, creativity, proactive thinking, planning, management, and execution. In this blog, we will discuss a few self-care tips for entrepreneurs as they contribute to a large part of the economic system. They are revolutionizing the global financial markets.

New innovation and technology are taking the world by storm. With growing responsibilities that fall directly on the shoulders of entrepreneurs, comes the risks of burnout. 

Every entrepreneur occasionally goes through the phase of ‘Burnout’. According to research, burnout contributes to problems such as job dissatisfaction, absenteeism, ineffective judgment, and disengagement. Burnout also causes health problems such as anxiety, depression, heart disease, hypertension, etc. 

Importance of Self-Care Tips for Entrepreneurs: 

Entrepreneurs may give more importance to extra work hours over their well-being. Nonetheless, it is feasible to accomplish goals and develop a business while also managing one’s health and wellness. Self-care is associated with promoting a healthy lifestyle, preventing diseases, incorporating a work-life balance, and engaging in activities that give you peace and keep you content with your life. 

11 Self-Care Tips for Entrepreneurs

Self-care breaks monotony enhances creativity, fights stress levels with a holistic approach, and promotes a healthy state of mind. Here are some of the fundamental self-care tips for entrepreneurs who lead a busy lifestyle.

Take Time Off

One of the best self-care tips for entrepreneurs is to take a break, not just a night off but a break from the screen and entrepreneurial duties. Travel to either your hometown or retreat in solitude away from the hustle. Set your parameters and keep your mind free. During this time take a break from technology, indulge in your hobbies that break your work cycle. 

Turn on Active Mode

Turn on your active mode. Start a workout regime. Add meditation to your everyday routine. Learn to listen to your body. Attach your mind to your physical strength and understand what needs to be taken care of. Incorporate changes in your diet that will relax you even when you are back in the game. 

Get in touch with Nature

Studies have shown that getting in touch with nature elevates your mood, revitalizes body functions, and recharges your mind. A simple walk in the garden, a cycling trip in the woods, or a trek may help you break the monotony of the grind. Any activity that is performed in nature will help you set your body clock back to normal. You will be able to reset your system according to the way nature intended it. 

Breakaway from mundane routines

Find innovative ways to relax. Search for things to do in your area. Look up your horoscope, such as a March 20 Pisces personality reading that could give you a fresh perspective on your relationships. Find things to do that reflect your best side to feel better about yourself. Take up a mini class for pottery, oil painting, or candle making. The more you experiment with your creative side, the better solutions you will offer for your entrepreneurial problems. 

Breathe

Take a breather from your work on a day-to-day basis. Meditate for 10 mins. Do some breathwork and practice staying in a positive mindset. Accept your feelings and affirm yourself with set rules and guidelines that avoid you from straying into destructive attitudes.

One of the basic self-care tips for entrepreneurs; if you find yourself disturbed and tired, analyze your feelings and try to understand where they stem from? You may want to sit down, away from your tasks, and ask yourself, “what to do when you feel lost and confused?” Take a moment and gather your thoughts. 

Sleep Better

The amount of sleep has a great impact on your health and mental status. An average adult should get between 7 to 9 hours of sleep every night. However, it is also about the quality of sleep and the time you arise—you can sleep for eight hours and yet feel groggy in the morning. Many senior entrepreneurs advise getting up early in the morning. This gives you more time to input more hours of work without dipping your creativity.

Set a correct mindset

As an entrepreneur, you are bound to miss something in the current trends, the fear of missing out in such circumstances can stress you out. You must understand to keep balance and peace in such conditions. The fear of missing out can be really taxing on us emotionally and mentally. To make peace with this feeling you should look at the bright side. Understand the joy of missing out and embracing the moment. This will help in dealing with stressful situations with a calm state of mind. 

Seek Human Interaction

Another one of the important self-care tips for entrepreneurs, seek human interaction with your favourite people. We are sentient beings with a system that depends on human interaction, relationships, and communication. We crave togetherness, and sometimes seeking the same can be therapeutic. If that is not your kind of break or self-care method you can also try working in a communal space that gives you access to different people, opens doors to different conversations. This can help an entrepreneur in the long run. 

Customize your work-space

Create and re-arrange your workspace according to your needs. Make it minimalistic, or give it a creative spin or add and remove objects according to your needs. Your workspace will impact your business the most, as you will be spending a lot of time here planning new ideas. This space either can be cohesive, work-friendly, and free of distractions or can be subjected to change according to your moods. This exercise is one of the fundamental long-term, slow-result processes that if done correctly, will help greatly. 

Take small breaks on your workdays

Consider taking a couple of quick 15-minute walks throughout your workday to psychologically recharge while also obtaining some much-needed exercise. Meditate or refresh your state of mind to have higher levels of creativity throughout the day. 

Incorporate Self Care in your Life 

It is possible to work hard while leading a meaningful and healthy personal life. However, establishing such a work-life balance needs action on your part.

Choose a few of the self-care tips for entrepreneurs in this article, add them to your to-do list, and keep it somewhere you’ll see it frequently. Don’t lose sight of your dedication to making positive changes in your day-to-day life. Keep in mind that these improvements are well worth the work.

11 Things To Remember When You Feel Lost And Confused in Life

Are you feeling lost and confused in your life? Do you feel stuck in the middle of nowhere? You want to do a lot of things, you set goals but somehow you feel so lost and hopeless that you don’t know a way out.

What to do when you feel lost and confused? How can you flatten this curve of self-doubt and lacuna in your belief system? No this is not just another Gyan/preaching blog, trust me I get that a lot. Everything I say and everything I do is based on research and personal experiences, so yes if I can you can and if you can someone else can. No harm in spreading hope and positivity, I believe.

What to do when you feel lost and confused in your daily life?

Why does one feel lost and confused? How does it feel to be off the radar, and feel guilty about it at the same time, the feeling is for real. There could be several reasons hampering your mental health and deteriorating your emotional wellness, it becomes really hard to stay motivated when nothing goes as planned, but there are a few ways to help you fight it.

But all these only works when you are willing to help yourself. I often hear people saying that these things don’t work, yes, they don’t, unless you work on them. You need to choose yourself every day until you no longer have that need or it becomes a part of your system.

For most of our lives, we try to find others, someone to fall in love with, someone who can love us, someone to lean on or someone who can hold our back. But most importantly we forget to find ourselves and when things fall apart we find it so difficult to connect within that we even give up on the whole idea of soul searching and continue to move ahead cluelessly.

Here are 11 things you can do when you feel lost and confused in life:

1.) It is ok to feel this away – Acceptance

Start with an acceptance, feeling in a certain manner is ok but not accepting and owning it will only lead to more emotional stress. It is alright to feel lost and confused and to not be able to see things clearly when you question your being or purpose of living.

2.) You are not alone- Assurance

You are not the only one going through confusion, lack of clarity and focus right now, so don’t go hard on yourself. Take it a little easy and allow yourself to process what is happening with you.

3.) It will never be the same – Impermanence

Nothing is permanent, the golden rule. If happiness is temporary, so is pain and so is sadness followed by hopelessness. So please hold on.

4.) Have a strong belief in yourself –Self-belief

Have a positive set of self-affirmations set in your mind. Try to build a stronger belief system based on your own truth.

5.) Allow yourself to sink in – Self-compassion

It is ok to not feel ok and have everything sorted at once. Allow yourself to loosen up a little when things become too weary.

6.) Do not be afraid of making mistakes – Self-introspection

The feeling of hopelessness affects your decision-making ability, you can’t think straight and you might make mistakes. It is natural to feel this way on many occasions.

7.) SWOT analyse yourself- Self-awareness

Analyse your Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats. Own them and work on them.

8.) Show yourself some love – Self-love

What to do when you feel lost and confused? Show yourself some love, leave that space to unwind. Treat yourself the way you would have treated your child or your loved one.

9.) Practise gratefulness- Attitude of gratitude

I know for many people practising gratitude and staying positive, sounds toxic. But it miraculously works for many. So don’t leave the little kindness left round, rather hold it uptight.

10.)Take this time to unwind- Self-care

I know it might sound cliche, take a break, take time to relax, don’t force things. But sometimes it is important and it is all we can do. We can only wait, we can stay patient and prepare ourselves for a better tomorrow by nourishing our inner self.

11.) Do not stop staying hopeful – This shall too pass

HOPE is the most powerful tool for survival. Everyone no matter how much of a pessimist that individual is wants to stay hopeful deep down. Most of the sentences begin with, I just hope…we unknowingly just hope for the best things to happen and that gives us a momentary purpose. So never stop staying hopeful. This shall too pass.

To conclude, I would say, even I have my bad days and I feel so lost and confused about going ahead with some decisions but I try to stay mindful and remind myself to segregate what is and what is not in my control and based on that, I try to figure out my future course of action. I hope this helps you.

Love and light

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Priyanka is a published author of 26 Days 26 Ways for a Happier you, Ardhaviram and Broken & Beautiful. An NLP practitioner and Founder of Sanity Daily, helping you prioritize your mental health. Let’s build a happy community.