Writing can help us minimize the intensity of negative emotions and can also increase our level of positivity and life satisfaction. It can help us find greater meaning and value, increase motivation, and feel more contentment. Uncovering ways to incorporate and focus on positive ideas, whether, through writing, music, or movies will make a major difference in your life.
1. Sit in a chair for breath awareness or lie down, making yourself comfortable, lying on your back on a mat or rug on the floor or on your bed. Choose a place where you will be warm and undisturbed. Allow your eyes to close gently.
Contemporary books about the relationships between crime and mental illness have been written by psychologists, psychiatrists, attorneys and journalists. Books have been written for a variety of audiences including a general audience as well as students, scholars and practitioners in psychology, psychiatry, law and criminal justice. Crime is an important topic in our society and interrelates with social problems like homelessness, prison overcrowding and victims’ rights. Crime is a popular topic with the public, as evidenced by the prevalence of TV shows and movies about crime and by the sales of some of these books.
While for some, Fourth of July celebrations can be a time of excitement, excess, and fun, for others, it’s a trigger for an underlying mental health issue. With eating and drinking being the focus at the majority of these parties, those who are susceptible to addictive behaviors may find it difficult to take part without consequence.
This is a very simple exercise to help you relax and also to keep you calmer throughout the rest of the day. Practice this as often as you can remember. Even just pausing during your day and taking only 1 deep breath will add up and you’ll get the benefit.
1. Non Judging
Mindfulness is developed by assuming the stance of an open minded witness to your own experience.
Growth necessarily means change and choice; even passive choice.
Necessary Murder
The day I was born
Everything was possible.
Several of my poems refer to my inner demons or parts of myself I ignore or hide as really little children that need my love. This poem is no exception and it also examines being a man and what growth means to me.
Another fresh New Year is here……
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear
To love and laugh and give!
Here is the third and final poem dealing with the death of my father. As you will see, I had moved into a much different place about my father.
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