How do I stay positive as a disabled person?
Transcript:
So somebody on my insta asked me how I stay positive and focused as a disabled person. So that's what I'm going to answer in this video. Well, I'm actually going to answer the first half of that how I stay positive because it's a really big question. So I think I'm going to like cover as much as I can. So the way I stay positive is basically a balancing act of Two things. The first thing is to make sure that I am always accepting my feelings and thoughts and pain as much as I can in the moment. So that's things like when I'm sad not being like ‘no stay positive! ’Don't be sad!’ because like that doesn't help or at least it doesn't help me. So that's the first thing to balance in the moment accepting everything and then in the long term trying to come up with strategies and ways to make my life feel like a life I want to live. So like that's like small changes over time like stuff like every morning one of the first things I do is play the piano and that's because like I have chronic fatigue, right? So like throughout the day I'm going to run out of energy and if I leave the thing that's important to me: playing the piano to the end of the day, I just not gonna have the energy to do it. So I put it at the beginning and I prioritise it So stuff like that like slow changes over time to make my life look like something I like living but in the moment being super like trying to accept everything that's like happening in the moment. And I do that that first one personally I use mindfulness meditation to like teach me to do that and I've been meditating for like oh like five or six years now and it really helps me, doesn't help everyone. I know some people don't like mindfulness meditation. They use like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or stuff like that, but that's how I do it. So yeah, that's that's it in a nutshell. Do you let me know if it would be useful for me to go into more detail about any of this stuff. So like the acceptance of thoughts and feelings and pain and things in the moment or like It's been like a really long process of like slowly inching my life towards something I like. So if you have any questions about how I did that or like just want me to go do talk to you more about it. I'm happy to do that. Yeah, let me know because I want to like be using my disabled wisdom to help if I can.