Borort

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
[Buddha]

Expressing How You Feel Can Release a Lot of Tension

Expressing yourself can help you keep in touch with how you are feeling. It can also release a lot of tension that you may be carrying around with you. Sometimes when people get out of touch with how they feel, their feelings burst out in situations or ways that are embarrassing or inappropriate.

Everyone needs some time to themselves to reflect on their feelings. Being able to express how you feel may help you make better decisons about what is right for you now.

Ways of Expressing Yourself

Finding out the best way for you to express yourself can be rewarding. You may find that you enjoy expressing yourself in a particular way, such as painting, playing sport, singing, drumming, or even doing something like kicking ball or yelling at a tree. If you don’t know what way suits you, try some of the following suggestions.

Write About How you Feel

Writing may be a useful way to explore your feelings. Some people keep diaries, others just write down whatever comes into their head. You may want to write a story about whatever is happening in your life now (try ‘Scream it Dream it’), or even make up a story based on some past event in your life. Writing poetry works for some people so you might like to try that. You can use the “Journal” in the members section of Reach Out! to record your thoughts and feelings in a way that is confidential.

Play Sport

Playing sport lets you express yourself in a physical way. There are plenty of opportunities to yell or curse or feel elated when things go well. Team sports allow you to express yourself and combine your energy with others both in verbal and non-verbal ways.

Draw or Paint

Even if you don’t think of yourself as artistic, drawing and painting are useful ways of expressing yourself. No one else has to see what you do. You may just want to experiment with drawing lines, sketching, colours and so on.

Sing, Play Music, or Shout

Singing along to your favourite songs or playing a musical instrument is another way to express yourself. Sing in the shower or out in a park. If you play an instrument or sing regularly you may find that you even start writing your own songs or music to express how you feel.

Dance

Dance is a form of self-expression. Put on some music at home or go out and dance as much as you like.

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Being creative helps you achieve your goals more effectively. It leads you to new pathways, and you will hardly believe what you find out about yourself. It’s also a way of venting, and for teenagers, a way of finding yourself.

STEPS

1. Never think of yourself too seriously. Don’t put pressure on yourself to be perfect! If you don’t have restrictions on yourself, it gives you more room to just let yourself flow creatively. Don’t worry about being perfect. Perfection is boring anyway, and it’s also kind of…unoriginal.
2. Find a place that inspires you and that will help spark your creativity. Maybe you like a place that is quiet and feels private to you, such as the outdoors – calm, serene, and beautiful. Or maybe you have a bright colorful room that makes you feel artistic. Maybe you like starry nights – whatever it is, revel in it!
3. Experiment with different mediums. Never be afraid to try something new. If you want to try sculpting, go for it! If you don’t like it, you can always just stop. But how will you know whether or not you’re a secret writing/painting/sewing genius is you never try it?
4. Meditate. Relax. Get away from the outside world. Forget about the grocery shopping you have to do. You are in your own personal space — be with yourself.
5. Find examples. If you think you might be interested in art, go to an art museum or find artists online. If you like writing, read a variety of books and investigate classical authors. It’s a type of self-education, and it’s what seperates the true intelectuals from everybody else: a willingness to explore, learn, and discover.
6. Consider starting a journal to use everyday. It doesn’t even have to be the kind of journal that you write in. It could be a doodle journal, or a sketch journal, or a poetry journal. Just use it to record your emotions day-to-day, in a place where no one can see them if you don’t want them to.

TIPS

WARNING

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Three things in life that, once gone, never come back

1. Time
2. Words
3. Opportunity

Three things in life that can destroy a person

1. Anger
2. Pride
3. Unforgiveness

Three things in life that you should never lose

1. Hope
2. Peace
3. Honesty

Three things in life that are most valuable

1. Love
2. Family & Friends
3. Kindness

Three things in life that are never certain

1. Fortune
2. Success
3. Dreams

Three things that make a person

1. Commitment
2. Sincerity
3. Hard work

There was this guy who saw a scorpion floundering around in the water. He decided to save it by stretching out his finger, but the scorpion stung him. The man still tried to get the scorpion out of the water, but the scorpion stung him again.

A man nearby told him to stop saving the scorpion that kept stinging him.

But the boy said: “It is the nature of the scorpion to sting. It is my nature to love. Why should I give up my nature to love just because it is the nature of the scorpion to sting?”

Don’t give up loving.
Don’t give up your goodness.
Even if people around you sting . . .

It is possible to change your own attitude in such a way so that the responses of other persons or situations surround you is the behavior you want them to be.

The world is responding to your attitude. Whether you believe it or not, it is the way the nature works.

If you are angry to other person, they will angry back to you or at least feel bad about you. If you feel bad about your day, your attitude will show it and other person and even the situation will work to response to your attitude. Then you will feel worse because it is bad and everything suddenly goes worst and worst before you realize what actually going on. It is actually your attitude toward your own life that makes that happen.

You cannot change other person. You can only change your own attitude. As you change, other persons will response to your change. In their response to your change, they may change according to what you expect them to be.

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You can also use the mental simulation to make a better preparation about what are you going to do.

Suppose you will have an important meeting tomorrow morning and you are going to give speech in that meeting. You can now practice your speech and see the audience reaction toward your speech. If you see that they are sleepy, then you can stop your speech and think of some jokes before hand. You can then see how is their reaction again after your speech improvement. You can also use your mental simulation to see what kind of questions the audience will ask you and what should you answer them.

Another examples, suppose you are going to another country by next week and you want to prepare all the things before hand. You can use your mental simulation to see what will happen step by step of your trips, including what you will wear and what are you going to do there. By seeing what will happen, you can have better preparation of what to bring and what to do before hand.

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