Are You Living Out of Alignment?
📌 Half of People DEPRESSED Delay seeking any kind of support for 6 to 8 YEARS
📌 People with ANXIETY DISORDERS Delay seeking treatment for 9 to 23 YEARS
(Butcher, Hooley, & Mineka, 2014)
🔰 If you Think You're Alone, You're NOT.
Most people Suffer in Silence + don't even seek
to help to alleviate that suffering
let alone talk about it.
One of the Major Contributing Factors
to Alleviating the suffering of
either of these conditions is
𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍
Thich Nhat Hanh's Self Compassion Model consists of:
📌 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
📌 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲
📌 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
🔰Judgment + Blame are actually
an autonomic reaction that
stems from your Limbic System.
In plain words, this means that these
feelings and thoughts, your worries,
are operating as low-grade stressors,
compiling and building below
your radar of consciousness.
📌A Leading Cause for Depression + Anxiety
is Living Out of Alignment.
🔰What does that mean?
Think of a Chiropractor that gives you an adjustment when your spine is out of alignment.
When your spine is out of alignment,
You feel the adverse effects
all throughout your body.
Your body begins to suffer in various ways
in various places.
Living out of Alignment shows up in
Many Ways:
1. Cognitive Dissonance- Where behavior or life experience doesn't match or align with your beliefs.
2. Confusion/Lack of Clarity- Sometimes you can't pinpoint what is off but you recognize that something is definitely off or just doesn't feel right. You're experiencing low-grades of depression.
3. Mood Swings- You experience extremes, heavy lows + high spurts of energy or excitement, then the ball drops and you can't get out of bed.
4. Judgment/Blame/Scrutiny- Whether toward yourself or others, and it's usually both, you always feel like you're not doing enough, performing well enough, and always feel behind.
5. Anxiety/Panicky Nerves- Anxiety starts below the surface long before you are made aware of its presence. Most people are operating on this level with subconscious worry like not enough food in the fridge to make the kids' lunches tomorrow. Or remembering get cash to pay the lawn guy. This may seem trivial to you; however, each of the "quiet" stressors stack upon each other allowing Anxiety Disorders to sneak up on you and predispose you to escalating Mental + Physical Health issues.
🔰If you would like to know more about how to combat any of the above mentioned items, please feel free to reach out to me.
💙The First Step is Always Awareness💙