It’s
OK to have a meltdown
I was watching a National
Geographic documentary about the behaviour of wild animals when they’ve escaped
the jaws of a predator. They jump, buck, and skip as though they’re celebrating
saying yay! Yay! Yay! Perhaps they re-aligning their energy or calming-down an
adrenaline (survival ‘fight or flight’ hormones) surge.
Pent-up feelings can brew and then
explode when you least expect it. Right now, we’re confined to home that could
be a small apartment or a spacious mansion. We get on each other’s nerves when
we’re on top of one another, but we feel lonely and isolated when there’s too
much space between us.
Try as you may, there are going to
be days (or nights) when you’ve had enough! Enough bad news, enough stress,
enough demands from your family/boss/community/church, enough miserable
weather, enough noise from the kids (or the neighbours). You need to have a
good cry. It cleans your eyes and makes them super-tired. This helps you have
a good uninterrupted sleep – and inevitably wake up feeling a whole lot better.
Try it sometime!
If you think somebody’s life is
better than your own, that it looks so good and they’re coping better than you
are right now, take a deeper look at what they have experienced and have gone
through to get where they are. We’re not who we are on the outside, its what’s
on the inside, that counts.
Reaffirm your achievements.
Do this every day. Gauge your achievements on YOU – and not others. You are
special, unique, and loved. Don’t ever forget. Watch Mandy Beverley, founder of
“The Remarkable Group” and Cathy Mellett, founder of “I’m Enough” that I’ve
posted on my blog Facebook.
Picture: EnginAkyurt@enginakurt
