Have you ever had a friend called and asked you out for a coffee, part of you wanted to go but the house was in a mess, ironing sitting and no cleaning done? However you decide to go and enjoy being out, and then wish you didn’t have to go through that door into the mess again, in fact its only by a real strength of will that you manage it.
Leaving and or denying things which are not in control in our lives are a bit like that, and at times we need to summon all our will to clean them up, or to take charge of them. We may not clean up all of our home in one go, but we will eventually get around all that needs done. I’ts not quite the same in our minds and bodies, but perhaps it is!
Consider if you will the notion that it is a deep desire to be rid of the anxiety and depression that plagues you, and how much you wish you had a magic wand to wave it all away, but the thoughts and feelings, and bodily fatigue that surround it seem to undermine even the strongest surge of will you can summon up.
Sometimes it may even seem that your mind and brain will not work in sinc you know what you want to clear up, or begin to work on but it won’t let you, so to speak,but hey hold on maybe its possible to get some balance in there, to stop and start and eventually get a new plan for managing your mental health and working through the trauma of the pandemic, the climate change, and the cost of living.
Here’s the thing the cost of living makes one wonder if we should go to the shops or not, how silly i’m being! However, what we do sometimes with our mental health is that we don’t know how we are going to get into it without huge cost so we push it aside, and just sit in the mess which gets bigger and bigger with time.
This week I heard some people alluding to a noticeable change in people’s behaviour, for which they didn’t have a name, but, then considered it may be to do with ‘a loss of meaning’ maybe just not understanding the world as it now is. If you consider things you will be aware that there is a similar process of events, or parallel processes going on in the world all the time.
Credits to Linda, Susan and Betty who I have met this week and had some stimulating conversations. One of these conversations touched on the recent news of the number of thatched cottages remaining in Northern Ireland today. TO BE CONT
aoibheann thoughtful reflections 