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Autism And Depression | (5 Secret Techniques To Improve Your Mental Health) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Talking about autism and depression and specifically some
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  secret techniques to help improve your mental health.
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  So it takes you from being super depressed and always feeling
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  like you're never going out with that to being very very in
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  control of it and potentially feeling better coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the ask me world.
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  My name is Dan and I have autism ADHD OCD and dyslexia.
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  Okay, guys, I'm talking about specific strategies.
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  I've used to get myself out of depressive state that I don't
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  think I've seen anybody used before some of them in
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  particularly. I've never ever heard anyone
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  use, but I know that they're effective because I've used
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  them. Okay guys bottom and depression.
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  So a lot of people who are on the autism spectrum do come
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  across depression quite often. It's actually quite common to
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  have a depression diagnosis. Come on.
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  League with autism. I have surely experience
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  depression a few times. It's not good recently.
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  I went through a really bad depressive state for about two
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  or three weeks. It was horrendous.
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  One of the worst ones. I've had actually in a long time
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  and so because of that it may be compelled to want to do this
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  video. So I want to talk about the
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  first thing that I am I did to kind of overcome this because
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  what I want to try to Rob myself out of it, I've tried medication
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  for medication wasn't as effective for me because it just
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  made me feel a bit worse. So I wanted to do something on
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  my own quite independent like If I do this, you know pool so I
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  did this thing on my own and these are my techniques and they
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  actually do work. So the first one I want to talk
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  about is taking time in something new and it sounds
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  bizarre but a lot of people tell you to like, oh, you need to
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  relax take a step back. Now if you're left to your own
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  devices and you're feeling depressed.
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  It's you're sitting there along with thought and then the
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  thought of going to manifest and they're going to build up on
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  each other and then you're going to the defaulting to talk to
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  each other never going to come this evil ball inside your head.
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  That's not going to work. So taking time for yourself.
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  Just sitting there. It's going to make it worse in
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  my experience. So this is what I think to do
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  take time. But in something new so forget
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  everything, you know, like for me.
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  Okay, let's put it in perspective.
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  I didn't know anything about the app Tick Tock.
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  Okay, and I love growing social media businesses.
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  And I love growing social media. And so one of the things I
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  wanted to do was was Tick-Tock eventually, so I was feeling
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  super depressed. I was like, okay, why don't I
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  focus in on Tick-Tock and by doing that focusing on on Purim
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  videos on Tick Tock and reaching else we won't take talk and just
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  basically play around with the app and see where I could grow
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  it and see how it works that's going to take me away from the
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  things that we're making me feel depressed and giving me a new
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  light on focus and by doing that it rocked me out of a a
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  one-track mind of oh my goodness, you know feeling sorry
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  for myself and things getting worse and by doing that the
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  Focus Shift it was amazing. I actually I can't recommend it
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  enough. It's very very very effective.
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  So taking time and something new is going to transfer your
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  Something which is going to be positive because something new
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  is always positive because you're in control of that.
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  It's not like you going to pick something new.
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  It's going to be highly destructive.
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  You want to pick something new that's going to be very very
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  positive. And this could be anything could
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  be like a hobby. It could be a new TV show that
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  you want to get into it could be absolutely anything but just
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  bear that in mind something new that you've never done before
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  but you're very interested in. Okay.
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  So the next one is focusing on yourself self development and
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  happiness. What does this mean?
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  So a lot of the time depression comes from the fact that we have
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  an exterior sources that are putting pressure and negative
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  pressure input into our systems. So you are a system and
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  everything else is exterior and what I mean by that is not your
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  like life not like the things that make you happy like, you
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  know, maybe your loved ones or your children or your parents or
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  your friends or whoever it is not those people the things
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  outside of like work or negative impact in your profession
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  somewhere or negative impact in Academia or like a friend maybe
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  passing away. All things are exterior to that.
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  Kind of like Circle Unit of Happiness.
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  That's surrounds what you're doing.
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  So taking time for yourself is like this.
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  It's a gratitude list and I did this very very simply I decided
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  that first thing in the morning soon as I woke up.
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  I would write a gratitude list out the things that I'm actually
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  thankful for because I had a hundred million things that
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  we're making me depressed and I was not thankful for but I
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  really chose the time to sit down and think about it and
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  something magical happened when I sat down and thought to myself
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  what am I grateful for and the things that like I'm grateful
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  for that the ability to to experience life and things like
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  that and I'm grateful for my son and I'm grateful for my my job
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  and I'm grateful for my house and I've all grateful for all
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  those things when I started putting down the things I'm
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  grateful for the actually ingested happiness into my life
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  and that happiness to gratitude gave me some peace arrest bite
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  if you if you will and that respite kind of gave me this
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  almost a chance to breathe and that chance to breathe then set
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  me on a nicer path. I was actually planning to do
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  that for a whole week doing everyday waking up and doing
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  your gratitude list, but The first one was so overpowering
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  that I didn't need to do the others.
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  It did its job instantly. So if you are like me and you
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  feeling like that way why not try wake up and create a
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  gratitude list for the things that you are focusing on within
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  you like the things that making you happy that the idea of just
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  breathing Sunshine people, you love experiences getting close
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  to people those things those little things you should always
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  be grateful for make a list because that list then becomes
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  empowering because you see it and that is so much impact.
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  Okay the next thing here Is something that I'm very strong
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  on and I actually like this a lot when I'm depressed or from
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  it in a depressive State. I like this something I'm really
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  big on is eating correctly eating the right Foods drinking
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  the right things hydration. A lot of people do this when
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  they become depressed. They'll just either knowing
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  anything at all and become really really thin and
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  malnourished or they'll just eat the wrong things and that might
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  harm your body like, you know, like fast food and junk food and
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  like candies and sweet and all that kind of stuff.
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  So what you want to do actually is focusing on eating good
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  foods. There are happy foods are good,
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  like fresh fruit and vegetables, you know, things like fresh
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  fruit vegetables or Whole Foods those things even cooking a meal
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  from scratch. At those things are going to
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  benefit your body and whatever benefits your body benefits in
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  mind, whatever benefits the mind of benefits the soil and that is
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  a very clear path to healing and feeling better quickly.
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  I didn't realize the importance of this and I stopped I went off
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  like eating fresh food and stuff.
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  And when I was going through my last oppressive State I was
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  like, oh my goodness when we do see in like pizza and like
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  crisps and stuff. And so then I was already a
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  vegetarian but then I decided to adopt a vegan lifestyle which
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  cut out like cheese and stuff. So it may be more restricted to
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  junk Foods because you know cheese and milk there in a lot
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  of I can. Junk food that are not as good
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  for you and by doing that again, it helped clear my body and mind
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  to then get me back in track and it kind of almost realign me
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  with the with certain The Knowing of South and I wasn't so
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  depressed from that. It is profoundly amazing.
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  I found super high benefit from just changing my day only ever
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  so slightly but the impact was profound.
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  So if you're feeling like me and that situation or you know that
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  you're eating bad food. Why not do a challenge yourself
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  saying? Okay.
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  Well, I'm not going to eat any meat or I'm not going to eat any
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  like, you know, potato chips or or fries or whatever and see how
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  how you can control that input of negative Foods on your body.
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  Okay. The next one is it is is
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  something that I want to break down.
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  There's this there's this myth that like you have to exercise
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  if you're depressed go out and exercise because it's going to
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  rescind off and put oxygen around your body and make you
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  feel awesome. Okay, that is true.
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  But let me ask this question when you're feeling depressed
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  like you lowest point in your entire life.
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  Do you really feel like getting your Gym gear on and hitting
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  those weights? I I think so.
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  So what you need to do is something very simple and I've
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  done this. I've been in both situations.
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  I've tried to force himself to go to the gym and it can even
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  pick my legs up off the floor. That's how depressed I was but
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  then I tried something different.
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  I just went out for a walk and it was five minutes was no
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  pressure just went out for a five minute walk and an
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  increased it that they have to run for a 10-minute walk in the
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  fifteen minute walk the 20 minute walk in an hour walk
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  exercise does help fresh air is amazing because it's new it's
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  different. It's experiencing life in real
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  time. It's not sitting in four walls
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  watching a TV screen which can be also therapeutic but at the
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  end of the day you want something that's tangibly
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  changing or for your life and walking did that for me?
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  And I loved it. You know, I found so much
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  healing from just going out for a walk and I do live by the Sea
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  so I'm very blessed but just going out for a walk and seeing
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  different people do different things and seeing like just life
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  going on helps you realize where you are and It Centers you in
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  reality. Okay, my last tip here my last
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  strategy technique here is a very simple one it's adopted
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  from ISM excuse in mindfulness, but it's a very simple
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  technique. This is the most basic revision
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  of in this is all you need. It's very very good and it's
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  profoundly impactful when you use it correctly, but you want
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  to do is remove negative thoughts with positive ideas.
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  Okay. So if you're feeling really
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  negative and feeling like oh, you know, I you know this
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  happening and that's happening and you know that spiral of like
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  depressive State and depressive thought is you're having those
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  thoughts and when they hit think about this And it's training its
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  training is not going to go instantly.
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  Did you just need to keep doing this?
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  Okay and try it and about after about 5 to 10 times.
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  It'll be amazing. When you feeling negative
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  thoughts negative thoughts instantly hit your brain think
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  of a positive idea, which means like think about something.
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  How could you raise money for charity?
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  How could you help somebody in need?
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  How could you do something that selfless?
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  How could you raise more money for the food bank?
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  How could you help people who are homeless those things those
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  thoughts those positive plans are changing the world will
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  align your mind with Saying so greater than the negative rot.
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  That is eating your mind that you don't need and it should
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  never be there but it's just cause by like existential kind
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  of realities and third parties that you just want to take
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  control back and taking control back is by ingesting in putting
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  positive ideas into your life. That in itself is so amazing.
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  It's so humbling and you're going to feel so much better
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  afterwards. I swear if you just did that you
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  just for a week. You'd feel so much so much
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  better, and I love it. You know, like I think that
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  these tips can help people in such a great way.
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