Existential Angst
Came across the following segment on Twitter, and felt myself identify with it a lot
75% of the time that i felt “jaded” or “existential” was actually due to me not taking care of my body / health
drinking water, meditating daily, exercising, talking to loved ones, and ✨touching grass✨ were really beneficial to keeping myself sane
I don't think others commonly experience this, but when I don't exercise/meditate/see friends/go outside/sleep well for a while, my mind goes into a sort of OCD analysis mode that wants everything to make perfect sense. This often takes the form of existential analysis, which will seem very important and significant at the time, but feel much more trivial when I do proper self-care.
Perhaps this relates to the thought process that “we must find life meaning to be happy”, or perhaps something about my brain automatically turns into hyper-problem-solving mode (with the most comment version of this turning onto itself) when I live a life that doesn't feel correct?
As I was saying to a friend the other day, my life would be quite a bit less complicated if instead of thinking, I just ran for ~15 minutes every time I feel bad about something. I think doing a proper checkup of whether I did self-care every morning could probably help with this a lot too. I think I'll do both.
— Categorized under: #psychology, #selfcare