Last week we discussed our attitude and how it affects our lives. I realized it can also affect your state of mind or your mood. The attitude you have will definitely affect how you see everything and everyone around you. Your state of mind is instrumental in how you live your day to day life. The way you leave home in the morning can affect your entire day. This is one of the reasons why I don’t do social media in the morning or the news. I don’t want the world infringing and impacting my life so early in the day. My morning is my own and it remains mine for as long as possible. This allows me to protect me and I get to determine what filters into my mind and I determine what state it is in.
When I was growing up one of my sisters would always say “boredom is a state of mind” if you indicated you were bored. Only you can determine your state of mind or let’s rephrase that, only you should. Try not to have anyone else control your way of thinking. When they do it’s to their benefit and your detriment. Have you ever seen persons trying to control someone else? It’s an interesting situation. I have seen others try it with me. I found it to be horrible and it was up to me to protect myself from that “attack”. Gaslighting is not a joke. Why would you try to manipulate others and what are you hoping to achieve? I ask as I don’t know.
We have all heard that saying that you should guard your mental health jealously, it’s no joke. Never allow anyone to take what is yours and manipulate it to their benefit. It’s something that could make that difference between grateful behavior and depression and ungrateful behavior. It’s something that many don’t even realize happens to them as they slowly slide into an area that they never thought they would be in. Can you imagine not realizing that you are depressed but just think that you are feeling off. But as that old saying goes when you realize you are in a hole stop digging. Digging only makes it worst and you are so busy digging down that you don’t realize it’s only making it worst.
Many don’t see the seriousness of protecting your state of mind and how you are the one to do that and not outsource it to anyone else. How have you been protecting you mind? Let me know as I really want to know what you are thinking, and I know others do too. Try commenting 👍🏽, but if you are not comfortable, reach out to me via any medium. Your comments let me know how you feel and very often give me a total different perspective on the topic. 😉. And you can never tell your comment might help others.
Always remember life is for living and you must always live your best life. #lifeisforliving #liveyourbestlife #gratefulforlife #faithgreaterthanfear
See you next Wednesday at 8:00 pm, Bogota time.
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This is real food for thought. So often we let the interference of others determine the mood/perceptions of our day.
Yes we do and only you can stop it but you have to want to push back.
Andrea…you are spot on with your comments on the importance of protecting one’s mental health. Too many times we see instances of persons wanting to manipulate others, whether family members, friends, or work colleagues. I do believe tho, most times misguidedly thinking that they are “helping” the recipient…
One positive from the COVID-19 pandemic has been the real focus on personal mental health. And for me, I guard my jealousy!!
The thing is we are in no way being selfish by looking out for our own mental health. Continue to guard it jealousy as it’s extremely important. 🙏🏽
It is important to guard your mind & choose what you take in. It’s about the choices we make- you choose to start your day in a positive state of mind, in control of your thoughts. Sadly not everyone does not- as you rightly stated, some are easily influenced by what they see, what they hear, and they are those who are unaware of their response(s). There can be underlying issues that causes someone to allow others to ‘control’ them: insecurity, low self-esteem, low self-worth, & the list goes on. Hence the need to take care of our mental health, just as we do our physical health. Seek professional help as needed.
This is something that is not a joke. We have to take it really seriously. Mental health is as you say as serious as our physical health. 🙏🏽