Mental self-care and acceptance of negative experiences. Working out in small areas/body weight exercises. Cooking on a budget. Getting out of your own head and own problems and into thinking about other people, is also immensely psychologically healthy.
> Getting out of your own head and own problems and into thinking about other people, is also immensely psychologically healthy.
Hmm, anyone have any tips about what to do if this actually just overwhelms and depresses you? I can deal emotionally with my own problems fairly well. But when I start thinking about the wide spread suffering among both the people I know and care about as well as the world at large,I get immediately overwhelmed and start to shut down.
"The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own . . .” —EPICTETUS
A simple exercise is to watch a movie and try to let the judgement pass as you simply try to imagine what the character is thinking about. Sometimes we do this effortlessly but sometimes judgement creeps in and we start thinking 'I would never do that' 'how could they possibly think that, I would never think that' etc.
