Blog Archives - Our Mental Health Rocks https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/category/blog/ Revolutionising Mental Well-being Fri, 06 May 2022 10:45:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-O-32x32.png Blog Archives - Our Mental Health Rocks https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/category/blog/ 32 32 You weren’t put on this planet to have to manage your anxiety, stress etc etc… https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/you-werent-put-on-this-planet-to-have-to-manage-your-anxiety-stress-etc-etc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-werent-put-on-this-planet-to-have-to-manage-your-anxiety-stress-etc-etc https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/you-werent-put-on-this-planet-to-have-to-manage-your-anxiety-stress-etc-etc/#respond Fri, 06 May 2022 10:45:04 +0000 https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/?p=240859 Why are we still being told to “manage” our anxiety? Or whatever label it is that we get given that slots us nicely into a box where someone can “fix” us? Aren’t you bored of managing it? Coping with it? Do you have a head full of techniques and fixes that you have to trawl […]

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]]> Why are we still being told to “manage” our anxiety?
Or whatever label it is that we get given that slots us nicely into a box where someone can “fix” us?

Aren’t you bored of managing it?
Coping with it?

Do you have a head full of techniques and fixes that you have to trawl through every time you feel that label coming on?

When you talk about your label does your sentence contain the words
“I’m managing it”
Or
“I’m learning how to live with it”
Or
“I’m coping”

Who the hell wants to do any of the above?

I bloody didn’t

I wanted to learn what’s actually going on when I got anxious
I wanted to know why I was experiencing my circumstance one way and yet everyone else around me wasn’t

Ring any bells?

I sure as hell did not want to be “managing” it for the rest of my life

So I didn’t

And I don’t

Because I’ve seen that it’s a heads up from my amazing mental health system that I’m not seeing things clearly

Its no longer an invitation to turn to page number twenty bloody two and practice technique 17.4

How about we put the books down
And start tuning into what we have supporting us already?

Can you relate to this?
I’d love to know

James
OMHR

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]]> https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/you-werent-put-on-this-planet-to-have-to-manage-your-anxiety-stress-etc-etc/feed/ 0 Nigel’s Success https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/nigels-success/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nigels-success https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/nigels-success/#respond Fri, 29 Apr 2022 10:26:08 +0000 https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/?p=240807 Meet Nigel. He joined one of our programmes for support with his phobia. Here is his story of success! Overcoming overwhelm My Fear of heights has been around for a while… Maybe years! It seemed to get worse in the last few years. Not sure why. Age maybe or recent life experiences probably! Social Media […]

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He joined one of our programmes for support with his phobia. Here is his story of success!

Overcoming overwhelm

My Fear of heights has been around for a while… Maybe years!
It seemed to get worse in the last few years.
Not sure why.
Age maybe or recent life experiences probably!
Social Media pressure doesn’t help

”Just Do it! Oh… yes! Because it looks that easy to me!”
Let’s try Facebook, can my friends help? My partner… Does he really get it?
Not sure folk fully appreciate my anxiety on that front.
Read books, read more books, more techniques. Even tried Hypnotherapy!
What can fix it?
Further delving in to this was exhausting….did I need a different approach?
That’s when James and Jules stepped in!
“Stop focusing on that. Explore yourself and your well-being” they said!
Of course I was sceptical! But I went with it. One thing was to focus on the now and not what might happen.
“I have two legs! I can walk. It’s a bridge that’s all.”
So thinking positively and having positive conversations with friends was the new mantra.
No room left for folk draining my energy. It’s what I want and need that’s important and of benefit to me.
Yes ME. Just now.
So tried a few views, a few bridges, appreciating experiences sharing with friends and my partner.
Once I’d done it I even walked to the top of the cliff above the damn bridge I had just crossed. I had come this far. I can go further. I was on a roll.

It felt good. I felt proud. I smiled. I actually enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it.
So am I cured?
I don’t think so. But I don’t think James and Jules were trying to cure this in isolation and I think that’s the point. It’s about appreciating what happens at that precise moment. I kinda just went with it.
I felt much less anxious, worried and kinda stopped thinking about the heights thing and just ready to experience the event.
I suppose you could apply this to most things.
Chatting to Julie and James (and it is a chat) A few videos to watch and a bit of self reflection.
That sounds simple doesn’t it! Well not if you have conditioned yourself to think one way for years!
James said to me at the start. “ I want you to forget what you have learnt and come in to this programme with a fresh mind. It took me a few months to get there. But I think I have learnt something here. About myself maybe. About thinking about my next life journey.
Yes I have days I am anxious. But I feel that’s ok now. Days I am happy reading a book for 2 hours and not feeling guilty.

Thank you
Nigel…

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]]> https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/nigels-success/feed/ 0 You are ALWAYS enough – We Believe In You! https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/you-are-always-enough-we-believe-in-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-are-always-enough-we-believe-in-you https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/you-are-always-enough-we-believe-in-you/#respond Sat, 02 Apr 2022 16:13:08 +0000 https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/?p=240153 You are always enough – We believe in YOU! So often in our life, we have hopes, dreams, and aspirations to live life in a different way. A life filled with more love. A life filled with more joy. A life filled with more peace. A life filled with more happiness. A life filled with […]

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You are always enough – We believe in YOU!
So often in our life, we have hopes, dreams, and aspirations to live life in a different way.
A life filled with more love.
A life filled with more joy.
A life filled with more peace.
A life filled with more happiness.
A life filled with more connection.
Yet we hold ourselves back!
Innocently starving ourselves of that which we crave, which we seek, which we believe we have to look elsewhere or to someone else to achieve.
We believe the thoughts and feelings we have around a current situation are telling us the full truth of the matter.
We believe the thoughts and feelings we have around the current situation need something to happen to change.
We get caught up in believing there is a right or wrong way to look at a situation.
Yet in our current perception of our reality, there really is no need to seek a magic way to make everything right in our world.
It changes, it always does.
You are always enough – We believe in You!
At times we can be frightened to express our feelings, scared that our words will come out ugly and messy and instead of making things better they make things worse.
Huge feelings can come and wrap around us like a tight hand around our throat, stopping the ease of our breathing, every in and out breathtaking effort.
We don’t know what to do with them and so we store them away, deep down inside and hope they do not make their way back to the surface.
All in an innocent misuse of thought.
All because we are innocently misusing our thought.
All because we are believing the thought to be the truth-teller.
The motivation to look elsewhere.
The drive to keep us down.
Our world is constantly changing, sometimes in ways, we do not notice until we stop and take stock, sometimes in breathtaking episodes we believe we can never get through or past.
Yet we do, we always do
You are always enough – We believe in You!
Life is ever-evolving, we are ever-evolving, connections made, connections broken, perceptions only ever a snapshot in time.
The people we love, we do so because of the story we create around them, the lens we use at the moment when they are in our awareness.
The people we do not get on with, we do so from the same source, the stories we create from the lens we are using when they are in our awareness.
The changing relationships with ourselves and others, happen because the invisible lens we wear is ever-changing.
The people we once loved are the same people.
The situations we once struggled with, can always look different.
When we see with fresh eyes everything changes and it is at that moment we get to decide the next steps.
We can make excuses and blame others.
We can pretend we had no part to play.
We can speak up with honesty.
You are always enough – We believe in You!
We are amazing creations, designed to experience the vast array of sensations – to have an ever-flowing waterfall of thoughts – to be able to store huge amounts of information, for recall in an instant – to love with a passion – to evolve – to express – to share – to covert – to have human times – to have spiritual times – to be caught up – to fly free.
No matter what.
You are always enough – We believe in You!
Now go and re-ignite your spark and light up your life.
Much love Jules & James xx

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How do the choices we make set us up to fail?
Choice 1 – Choosing by limitation – we make choices from what seems to be our only option, what seems possible, or what seems reasonable.
What we don’t realise is that we are the ones creating the limitation. We create a full set of rules that we live our lives by and from, making it look as though we have no other choices, we are restricted. The invisible binds sure are strong and the longer we live under their conditions the more real they look.
Take a moment-look around you, I bet if you stop and look you will see that others do not live under the same circumstances, now, of course, our imaginative mind will quickly come up with lots of reasons why the others do not follow the same rules, probably with a good dose of judgment dolloped on top yet the truth remains if a limitation stops one person and it is only the limitation that is the cause of the restrictions then that limitation must have the same result of others.
Yet it doesn’t. Why? because WE are the creators of our reality, our rules, our judgments, our beliefs, our binds, of our life.
THIS is great news. If you can create one set of thinking around a subject, you can create another, my guess is you already have over many things, many times.
I mean imagine if Bella didn’t know she had the full garden to play in and thought she had to stay in the pot 😉
So take a look at your life right now, where do you look stuck? what else is possible? Get curious and if you want some help to look deeper let me know.
Your life is waiting for you to live it fully, when are you going to start?
Love Jules xx

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]]> https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/are-your-choices-setting-you-up-to-fail/feed/ 0 Everything comes from the inside https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/everything-comes-from-the-inside/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=everything-comes-from-the-inside https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/everything-comes-from-the-inside/#respond Sat, 02 Apr 2022 14:31:04 +0000 https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/?p=240145 The post Everything comes from the inside appeared first on Our Mental Health Rocks.

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When the weather is like this ⛄️
Each and every one of us KNOWS that wearing extra clothes keeps us warm
Not because it changes the temperature on the outside
Because it changes the temperature on the INSIDE
Everything we ever do
All the actions we ever take
Always, ALWAYS comes from the inside
How cool is that?
We don’t need to change the outside to change our experience!
In times of cold weather, we know to use our internal radiators to keep ourselves warm!
We don’t walk in the cold wafting a hot water bottle at the snow until it stops or warms up!
We know that will never work!
All the helpful stuff comes from the inside
Imagine how much lighter life could be
If we followed life from the inside out
Rather than the outside in?
Where do you see this in your world?

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]]> https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/everything-comes-from-the-inside/feed/ 0 Hello world! https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/hello-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hello-world https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/hello-world/#respond Tue, 22 Feb 2022 02:22:38 +0000 https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/?p=1 We are Julie and James, the co-creators and team behind The Our Mental Health Rocks Method. Our simple method will help you live a life with more ease.  All we ask is that you come with a curiosity and willingness to explore what we share in your own life. We always love to hear what […]

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]]> We are Julie and James, the co-creators and team behind The Our Mental Health Rocks Method.

Our simple method will help you live a life with more ease. 

All we ask is that you come with a curiosity and willingness to explore what we share in your own life.

We always love to hear what you see differently so feel free to let us know how what we are sharing is helping you.

Much love Julie and James

 

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