Mental well-being is giant in the media at the moment. Campaigns abound to raise our awareness and famous people talk regularly about stress, depression and panic fit derealization hysteria and the devastating effects they have had on their non-public, work and family life. basically, one recent article claimed that almost 1/2 of Australians are have or have had a little form of mental illness. Why, as the experts agree, are 75% of us stressed out? Why are our lives so busy and what are we getting out of it? How do we live with this building up of pressure inside us without exploding? How will we find the balance between achieving our goals and relaxing into the present moment? Terribly huge questions. Clearly, mental well-being doesn’t just occur. We want to work on it. Daily. This may sound like a huge ask but the choice is rather upsetting. As more of us become aware of our high stress level and how it can negatively impact our health and relations, more of us look for answers. One choice is to turn to the pros, say we are sad and be prescribed potent mind-altering medicine that might or may not address the symptoms and ignores the cause. We might be given a diagnosis and be told we have “panic attack derealization anxiety” or “post-natal depression”. We may see a therapist long term who listens, we may talk about our infancy and analyse our feelings and thoughts. The medical model is meant to focus minutely on what’s wrong – a specific neurotransmitter, a selected behavior, a diagnosis or a collection of events that occurred when we were young. An excursion down this simply accessible trail has definitely saved many lives but has enabled many to remain stuck with no instant relief from their unhelpful feelings. Another choice we’d be interested in is the trail of healing, of spirituality, of preventive drugs, crystals, channeled entities, re-birthing and reincarnation. Veganism, sorcery, mantras and 7th dimensions require us to be open with a child-like curiosity about the world and the way energy works. This trail concentrates on what’s right – on the perfection of what’s happened inside the individual. The sole problem is, rainbows and dolphins aren’t taken too seriously by traditional thought in psychological well-being and drugs. So, what’s another option? Maybe eventually the sole one that counts. The one that each individual selects for himself with no regard for sex, background, culture, faith, education and life experience. A trail that isn’t exclusive, that demands no bias or preconceived concepts or experience of anything especially. A trail that welcomes fifty five year old Bosses who drive BMWs, the fear locked, vegetarian hippy from Byron and the person just living their life, doing what they do ; sleeping, eating, drinking, working, giggling, crying, playing and dying. All this trail needs is the development of a personal philosophy that could be practiced amid the chaos of our usual lives. A philosophy that fits our unique view of the planet and gives us something to hold on to when we need it most ; at times when we are truly stressed, have a powerfully worried mind or are feeling blue and unable to join with anybody or anything around us. A philosophy I have rigorously cultivated is “Anything that ever happens to me is for the best. ” This belief saw me through determined uneasiness, eating defects, relationship breakdowns, obsession, debt, financial failure and more . With consistent practice and time, I have developed a positive view of life, a strategy to feel happier about where I am now, to accept change and to accept conflict and loss. Your own personal philosophy exists outside of the medical model, religion and self-development practice. It exists only in you and you take it with you wherever you go and whatever you are doing. There’s so much more, but this is where we commence with stress relief for reality. What’s your private philosophy? How has is it served you? Is it time to make a new one?

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