27/04/2020
Action is the best way to fight depression caused by trauma or other forms of anxiety. Check on your routines and see if there is anything you have stopped doing, neglecting or dragging yourself to do it. Make sure you stick to your routines as you normally do them. Do not follow negative thoughts, negative thoughts always lead to negative feelings. Tell yourself this coronavirus time is just a passing phase. Tell jokes, smile, laugh, do some taichi and exercises with a lot of deep breaths, or any exercises to the rhythm of playing music. Stay positive. Love yourself, look and feel good. Accept the things you can't change and find positive meaning from them. Use the the challenges you are growing through and those in the past to grow from them.
Sometimes it is good to tasks, but when you do it do it because it is the right thing to do. Feel and enjoy the benefits of doing the task. Don't do it because you want to forget whatever you will be going through. You may choose to clean your, the right thing will be to focus on the benefits of having a clean room.
This could be a very depressing time, full of loneliness, anxiety and loss of freedom - so many from social to economic and even deaths of loved ones. It is a moment of anticipatory grief, too. Life is like a flowing river and we are like the water in it. We have to learn to move through it just like the water that has to pass through the river's many bends, nooks and rocky bed, gorges, flat plains, tunnels, and waterfalls. Acceptance and gratitude for what we have can make us realise the blessings around us.
Whatever you do, DRINK LOTS OF WATER, too! Stay away from sugary foods, caffeine and fatty foods. Watch out for binges, and don't get yourself into one. Avoid alcohol. Talk to, and greet people around you, even strangers. By greeting people, you are simply giving them kindness and respect for their humanity, which brings them healing, too. Together we can heal in these troubled times and find purpose in our lives.
