12 7 2022
The holidays are a joyful time for many and extremely
difficult for others.
For those who have a hard time, people can give you a lot of
recommendations, can’t they? Get into the spirit! Decorating will make you feel
better! And lots of others. I happen to get benefit from being with other
people. I love holiday crowds. But I’m not everyone!
I found this article in Psychology Today about why
meditation doesn’t work for everyone. It impressed me. It lists 5 conditions
that make meditation difficult, even harmful. Take a look if you’ve found no
benefits from medication.
One this those of us with depression are good at is hiding
it behind a smile. You never can tell what a person is thinking or feeling,
just by looking.
The end is the part I like: finding your own form of
meditation. Like the guy who lost himself in his carving, I can lose myself in
my fiction. I never realized it before, but writing is my meditation. I mean, I’ve
always known that I’m in better mental health when I’m writing, but I’ve never
put it that way. I know some people exercise to stay sane. Do you have anything
similar?
I expect to have a very good Christmas. There will be 5
grandchildren present. That’s a formula for happiness!
The illustrations are
all from pixabay.com
Hi Kaye, All my life I've had friends recommend meditation, from the Sixties onward. It never worked for me, and their answer always was that I wasn't trying hard enough, wasn't concentrating. No matter what I did, I got back up feeling either worse or just bored with an edge of pissed-off for wasting more time. It's nice to have validation here in different answers. Whenever someone asks me why I keep writing when there's been times I felt ignored by the world, my only answer has been "It's the only thing that makes me feel like myself again." It's so easy to lose ourselves in everything. Writing finds me again. So I guess, like you, it's simply my form of meditation.
ReplyDeleteI found validation with that article also. I'm glad we both got to read it!
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