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1) Switch off your phone. Log out of your social media. 2) Open your window, or the blinds. Let fresh air and sunlight into your room. 3) Eat something you like. It can be something you don’t treat yourself to often, or something healthy. Savour every bite. 4) Take a bath. Change into clean, comfortable clothes. 5) There’s always that one song, or album, or band. Listen to it. Close your eyes. Feel the music. 6) Read your favorite book, or a book you’ve been meaning to read. Take out some time, find a quiet corner, and read. 7) Take a walk. Focus on the steps you take, and your surroundings. 8) Go to the beach, or a park. Sit and relax. Look around you. Try to keep your mind blank. Just breathe. 9) Write. Write what you feel, or what you’re thinking of. Write down a good memory, or something that you haven’t told anyone. 10) Make a list of what makes you happy. Things you’d like to do in the future. Things you’ve done in the past and enjoyed. It can be anything that makes you happy.

incandescentghost | writing prompt #64: write 5-10 things you can do to better your mental health. (via wnq-writers)

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1) Love. Love something. Anything. Love at least once a day, and mean it even if sometimes you don’t truly feel love’s powerful force inside your beating heart. But listen here people, find love in the right places. No useless sex or drugs or alcohol or meaningless relationships. Love is not the pain and the blood and the angst. Sometimes love is in the tender petals of a flower, in the colors of the sky, in the look of a stray animal. Sometimes love is just your will to keep fighting. 2) Write. Write it ALL. Even if it’s a mess of asdfghlj. Write everything that passes through your mind ‘til the point where your fingers can’t type as fast as thoughts and feelings are exploding in your head. Write about love and hatred in the same rythmless poem. Write about past, present and future. SCREAM IN YOUR WRITING or whisper fearfully. It’s okay, it’s all okay. When writing everything is valid and beautiful in a way that perhaps is only harmonious and poetic for you and you alone, but it’s real. And then, read. 3) Read your own writings several days or months or years after. (Don’t edit, though. Do not alter the essence of the moment when you typed down your most inner thoughts.) Read whatever you wrote so many feelings ago and laugh or cry or say “Jesus, this is chaos.” But never, ever, think “Man, I suck. I should stop.” Read other things too, and if you don’t like to, or if you don’t know where to start…read anything that comes across you way until you find those very words that take your breath away. Read and grow your mind. Read, for then you’ll start to dream. 4) Find your home. In religion, in music, in your true family or in your friends. In the silence or in your passion, find your home and your safe haven. Every now and then turn around from the raging crowded world and into your home. Take one of those deep breaths that makes your skin go all goosebumps and then think. Make your thoughts as tranquil and peaceful as your haven, that way you’ll find the angels and brightness inside of you and realize not every though is self-destructive and dark. I promise you, there more you stop and breathe the world through your home, the more you’ll realize: your mind isn’t your enemy; the only way to move forward is learning from a safe distance from the past; as much as you can be your own destruction, you are your salvation too. Do this constantly and one day life will be your home and safe haven. 5) Get out and do something. Life is happening out there so go out and find your adventure. You need the world as much as it needs you, start helping one another. I know- and I’m not gonna lie- it is scary out there with all the hatred and violence, the pollution and unfairness and discrimination. It is so, so overwhelming watching the news and getting out and hearing how everything’s going to hell. BUT it’s not going to change if you stay locked up in your room. I know your cynic mind is telling you “But you won’t change anything.” Well I say: you might and you will. Never forget a wave comes from a ripple, and a ripple creates a wave. Get out and enjoy this marvelous world and make it a better place than what you got. 6) Don’t be ashamed for asking for help. Don’t be scared for saying “I’m not okay”. Do not be proud and do not feel like you’re not worthy, like you’re a waste that must not trouble people with more problems of your own. It’s not selfish to ask for help, to tell someone what you truly feel like, how your life truly is. Just like staying quiet and saying “I’m fine” is NOT selfless and brave. I assure you, we all feel like that every now and then, as I’ve said: we are all a little broken and a little mad. So be a shameless vulnerable, we all should be are. 7) Make friends. Have good friends, or make new good friends, but most importantly be a good friend. Find people like you and stay together. Help each other be a better person, what’s a friend for if not for that? True friends love you in a special way surely fairytales envy. I’m telling you from experience that no possible mental illness or any like will drive true friends away. 8) Smile. That’s the last tip because I don’t want any of you to force a smile ever again. That’s why after everything else I recommend- and hope- that you find more than one reason to smile in a pure way that reflects your mind and soul. Be happy and smile, there’s no other way to live this life.

Sophia Carey, writing prompt #64: write 5-10 things you can do to better your mental health. (via wnq-writers)

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Men, be kind to your fellow-men; this is your first duty, kind to every age and station, kind to all that is not foreign to humanity. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education (via philosophybits)

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Licia Ronzulli, member of the European Parliament, has been taking her daughter Vittoria to the Parliament sessions for two years now.

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Every time this is on my dash, it’s an automatic reblog.

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage, ‘60s-era Penguin Classics by Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus, Voltaire, Plato, and others! It took me three years to accumulate these books one by one, and I’m already starting to have separation issues. *sigh* But I know they will go to a good home. Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on August 27, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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Ways to Love Yourself 1. Know yourself You cannot love someone you don’t even know. 2. Accept that you have strengths and weaknesses. You have skills and problems. Do a SWOT Analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) of yourself if you want but remember, opportunities and threats are external. You don’t have control over them. But you can use your strengths and improve on your weaknesses, both of which are internal, to handle the external. 3. Disliking certain things about yourself is normal. That gives room for improvement. Improve. Don’t be lazy and choose the path of self loathing. 4. Forgive yourself Understand that making mistakes is the way to grow. If you hadn’t fallen on your bum a couple hundred times you would have never learned to walk. If as a baby after one fall, after one mistake of breaking something, you would have decided to just sit in the corner and never try again, you would still be sitting there with the broken pieces. Don’t do that. Learn from your toddler self. Get up. And the only way you can do that is by forgiving yourself. 5. Accept that as of now you do not love yourself. Lying to yourself won’t eventually lead you to believe it as the truth. Lying to someone you love is not a way to love them. 6. Disregard what others say about you. So much of the good and bad they tell you really has more to do with themselves; their mindset and mood, their motives and interest. Don’t let people fill in blanks for you. That won’t lead to a happy ending, it won’t lead to a story you can call your own. 7. Be patient with yourself, be kind. Being hard on yourself is a really stupid thing to do. It isn’t productive, it isn’t one bit effective and it is completely unnecessary. 8. Discard the idea that you are breakable. Reject the concept that someone can leave you broken. They can hurt you, yes and they can cause you an immense amount of pain but they cannot break you. You aren’t made of glass. Give your cells a little more credit. Give your heart a little more of it too. 9. When you realize that the grass is greener on the other side, don’t draw up plans to ruin that grass or come up with a way where you can camp on it and abandon your own grass. Instead, take a trip to the shop to buy some fertilizer and tend to your own grass. Upskill yourself constantly. 10. Learn new things. Invest time and energy in things that interest you.You didn’t learn to play piano in school but always wished to? Who said there is an age limit. In most cases the saying, ‘it is never too late’ stands absolutely true. 11. Look yourself in the mirror. You can admire or just observe. Look into your eyes. Look at your reflection. Just look. Have a see in what’s inside. Don’t look away. Have the courage to see the truth. 12. Spend time with yourself. Buy yourself flowers if flowers are what you love. Don’t wait to meet the right person to do the things you always wanted to. Go star gazing, skinny dipping. Solo travel. Do whatever you want to and can. Write your future/past self a letter. Cook yourself a meal. Buy yourself some ice cream. Click goofy selfies. 13. Learn to accept compliments. Be graceful. All you have to do is say ‘thank you’. And please don’t feel the immediate need of returning the compliment. You don’t always have to give when you get. Especially when you don’t really have anything to give. A ‘thank you’ and a smile are more than enough. 14. Learn to be okay in silence. The voices in your head? They terrorize you, I know. But trust me, they go away. They go away if you face them. There are no demons in your head. These are just echoes of your fears and insecurities. Listen to them. Breathe deep. Know that they are weak. Face them head on. And then ask them to leave. 15. Accept your body. However it is or it isn’t. It has accepted you in every possible way. Accept it and see how it accepts you even more. Accepting doesn’t mean not changing something that you can in a healthy way. It only means that your love is unconditional. Your love is whole. And that is the only way to love yourself. Wholly.

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Self-Care for the Introvert

- Go home at the end of your shift. - Say hello the cat when you get in. - Put the radio on. - A bath - Create something nutritious that you'll enjoy eating. - Eat that on the balcony. Feel the wind, listen to the birds, watch the clouds. Enjoy the food slowly. - Clean up, work out. - Spend time improving yourself, study something and get to know it intimately. - Read on the balcony while smoking. - Go to bed when the sun goes down. - Don't turn on the computer. Don't check your phone. Add/substract where appropriate.