There are times when sadness and anxiety can invade your brain and cloud your reason. As a woman, I admit, there are times when I plummet into a state of emotional confusion and despair. When I was younger, I reveled in it. Anyone else relate to this thinking? I enjoyed wallowing in sadness and self pity. It was almost pleasurable to experience despair, as sadistic as that sounds. But as I grew older and got married, I realized I now had to be a grown up.
I had to maintain sanity and strength for the people in my life, even in times when my emotions threatened to betray me.
One of the most helpful and wise pieces of advice I ever received came from a friend of mine in college. She said, think on what you know. This spoke mounds of truth and clarity to me. I have found that when we are caught in the emotional plummet, it is a spiral of insecurities, self pity, and lies.
We ignore the sanity of our brains from which we usually thrive the other days of the year, to slowly feed into the doubts and insecurities of our current mood.
So that is my little piece of wisdom for those of you, like me, who battle the blues. When you feel yourself falling, don’t make excuses for yourself. Take a time out. Remember your breathing techniques and couple that with a meditation on what you know. List them in your mind. Focus. Let them sing words of truth to your body. Read the truths of scripture. Remember what your Creator thinks of you as well. It’s the facts you thrive on the other 364 days of the year that will pull you back into reality today.
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This was a very good one! It is so important to remember the truths that God has blessed us with.