Being Human

MOC 12 Jan 31 Prompt Connecting to Yourself

539 words in journaling
How do you connect with yourself? This is such a great question & can really be so different in the answer even from the same person depending on how “deep” of a question you take it as. Connecting with yourself could simply be a check-in with how you’re feeling currently, happy or sad. It can mean so much more though when you really dig deep. I feel like I need to connect with myself throughout the day; having ADHD my emotions I have learned can really run the gamut of highs and lows as I tend to feel everything intensely at least at first. I try to catch myself when I see that I’m being short with others or just frustrated with small things. How am I really feeling? What is the issue at the moment, is it really the thing that has me worked out? Is this thing really that important? Have I actually taken care of some basic things - like eating for the day or drinking? These are for sure quicker check-ins and connections with myself; but they are so important to helping me regain composure or a little sanity or problem solve.
I think on a deeper level for this question though, connecting with myself is allowing time for my thoughts to wonder, allowing myself to embrace quiet sometimes even though I would rather run from the quiet because the thoughts in my head at times are all so loud. This connection is also important though, and working through the urge to just run to noise filled environments and really just think all the thoughts I have learned is definitely good for me, sometimes it is hard but it is always good for me in the end. So how do I do this? I try and make space in the week for times that I don’t have to be anywhere, or to answer to someone about what is going on at the moment, times I don’t have to be responsible for others. Cuddles with the pups are high on this list as well.Those are the times I embrace the quiet and think the thoughts that are often just dashing and sprinting about in my head often too fast and too loud to really focus and think on.
Other times though, that connection with myself is about allowing myself to enjoy the things I am passionate about. These times of scrapbooking on the computer or organizing the minute details of life or getting my big camera out and shooting photos of some sporting event or simply on a walk in the woods - these are times I feel like I connect to the part of me that craves to create & explore new ideas. I have also learned that when I ignore these hobbies/passions too long for the demands that life has day in and day out I start to feel burned out, I am grumpy and just frazzled. So it is important for me (and I think my family would say for them) that I also find time to make that connection. I’m learning that I must balance things in life to truly feel connected with myself and to be able to connect with others.

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