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azurelunatic) wrote2001-07-14 04:12 am
azurelunatic) wrote2001-07-14 04:12 am
(a comment to someone's depression)
one of the things that often helps me is to sing it out.
There are some songs that I associate strongly with healing, or with a particular situation ... either I crank one of my healing songs very loud and sing along to it, taking the healing into me, or I crank a song that I associate with the bad situation and put my negativity back where it belongs, in an artistic situation where it can look pretty all it wants. Or I paint what I'm feeling. A box of kid-quality oil pastels, some spray fixative ... it may not be art-show caliber when I'm done with it always, but I've gotten some lovely pieces *and* better moods out of this method...
I often sleep holding a clean piece of rose quartz in either hand. I keep a charged piece (usually moon-charged) in my receiving hand, and a drained piece in my projecting hand, thus recharging me and keeping me from re-absorbing negativity. Rose quartz is great for absorbing stuff. I've got a rather lot of pieces that I cycle through.
If you consider caffeine a drug, disregard this; if caffeine is something you indulge in, you may want to experiment with going without it for some time, and then taking an unusually large amount of it (twice to three times what you normally have) and seeing what that does to you, psychologically. I have noticed that when I consume mood-altering substances such as caffeine or alcohol, once my mind has noticed the difference that this chemical makes, my mind can re-create that mood without the drug at any time if it is one I wish to re-invoke.
There are some songs that I associate strongly with healing, or with a particular situation ... either I crank one of my healing songs very loud and sing along to it, taking the healing into me, or I crank a song that I associate with the bad situation and put my negativity back where it belongs, in an artistic situation where it can look pretty all it wants. Or I paint what I'm feeling. A box of kid-quality oil pastels, some spray fixative ... it may not be art-show caliber when I'm done with it always, but I've gotten some lovely pieces *and* better moods out of this method...
I often sleep holding a clean piece of rose quartz in either hand. I keep a charged piece (usually moon-charged) in my receiving hand, and a drained piece in my projecting hand, thus recharging me and keeping me from re-absorbing negativity. Rose quartz is great for absorbing stuff. I've got a rather lot of pieces that I cycle through.
If you consider caffeine a drug, disregard this; if caffeine is something you indulge in, you may want to experiment with going without it for some time, and then taking an unusually large amount of it (twice to three times what you normally have) and seeing what that does to you, psychologically. I have noticed that when I consume mood-altering substances such as caffeine or alcohol, once my mind has noticed the difference that this chemical makes, my mind can re-create that mood without the drug at any time if it is one I wish to re-invoke.