Be a human being, not a human doing.
I have had a lovely couple of weeks off work, away from social media and totally unplugged. We’ve recently moved, to a house which is a bit of a ‘project’, so it was also great to get away from the endless to-do list of all the things that go along with moving and renovating. I went with the best intentions to leave work at work, and leave the to-do list undone, knowing that it will all still be there when I got back. It was surprising to notice how difficult it was to really switch off. I consciously thought “right, now it’s holiday time, hurrah, I get to stop for a while”.…
Patience and perseverance
Big things happen when you’re not noticing. I started crocheting again at the beginning of the pandemic. I find it really useful to have something to do with my hands if I am just sat in front of the TV or watching a movie with the kids. It keeps my hands busy and distracts me from the temptation to reach for the snacks. I also love just sitting and crocheting for a bit, it’s very mindful just to sit and focus on the yarn and hook. Often, I don’t have any particular aims when I’m crocheting, I kind of make it up as I go along. I don’t want to…
Social media stress
For those scrolling through endless filtered, curated pictures and feeds, saturated by idealised pictures, this enhanced vision of perfection becomes the norm as the brain is exposed to perfect images over and again. Once we start to perceive this as ‘normal’ it slips into being our expectations of ourselves, and we judge our unfiltered reality as “less than the normal”, rather than “less than the perfect filtered version”.
