Its funny.....
I few years ago when I was struggling with depression, I had felt a negative spiral in my head. I will explain what I mean, but in simple terms, the more you feel bad about something the more your brain makes you feel bad about everything. Its a vicious cycle, one that took a long time for me to understand.
Let me go a bit deeper.....
There are neurotransmitters( small molecules ) that get released when you feel bad about anything. Its brain's way of making you realize that the experience you just had was negative for your survival......... remember it and stay away for it. But what happens, we remember to remember the negative experience; instead of remembering not to remember the negative experience. So the more negative pictures and images and expressions , we iterate in our head the more it gets strengthened. And we find ourselves in the loop where we are helpless, if we do not understand how to control our brain( which is the case with most of the people).
I have a firsthand experience of this phenomenon, I have practically lived with it for seven years.
The bright side of the story........
I am an engineer, and we understand thing in terms of similarity , differences , models , schematics and proofs. Basically, we are nerds who love to go deeper into the problem until the problem give itself up or we practically destroy our lives for stupid problems. So, I resolved myself to solve the problem of negative spiral. Then, the first question that came to my mind was to ask for the exact opposite. If brain has a negative spiral, does it have a positive spiral?
Guess what..... Yes it does..... or at least yes in my understanding and experience.
No matter how shit I feel, if I sit and just smile while keeping my focus on the smile... something magical happens.
Over period, everything vaporizes and I could get out of that vicious cycle of negativity.
If I keep practicing it for prolonged period, magical stuff starts happening.... such as ... I could focus better... I would greet everyone with a gaaziiilllioonnnn mile long smile.... everywhere I go things become cheerful...etc.
I think I have found the positive spiral as well.......
I have a theory for the positive spiral as well.... but that is for the next time...
keep smiling
I few years ago when I was struggling with depression, I had felt a negative spiral in my head. I will explain what I mean, but in simple terms, the more you feel bad about something the more your brain makes you feel bad about everything. Its a vicious cycle, one that took a long time for me to understand.
Let me go a bit deeper.....
There are neurotransmitters( small molecules ) that get released when you feel bad about anything. Its brain's way of making you realize that the experience you just had was negative for your survival......... remember it and stay away for it. But what happens, we remember to remember the negative experience; instead of remembering not to remember the negative experience. So the more negative pictures and images and expressions , we iterate in our head the more it gets strengthened. And we find ourselves in the loop where we are helpless, if we do not understand how to control our brain( which is the case with most of the people).
I have a firsthand experience of this phenomenon, I have practically lived with it for seven years.
The bright side of the story........
I am an engineer, and we understand thing in terms of similarity , differences , models , schematics and proofs. Basically, we are nerds who love to go deeper into the problem until the problem give itself up or we practically destroy our lives for stupid problems. So, I resolved myself to solve the problem of negative spiral. Then, the first question that came to my mind was to ask for the exact opposite. If brain has a negative spiral, does it have a positive spiral?
Guess what..... Yes it does..... or at least yes in my understanding and experience.
No matter how shit I feel, if I sit and just smile while keeping my focus on the smile... something magical happens.
Over period, everything vaporizes and I could get out of that vicious cycle of negativity.
If I keep practicing it for prolonged period, magical stuff starts happening.... such as ... I could focus better... I would greet everyone with a gaaziiilllioonnnn mile long smile.... everywhere I go things become cheerful...etc.
I think I have found the positive spiral as well.......
I have a theory for the positive spiral as well.... but that is for the next time...
keep smiling
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