June 22 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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Today’s card is The Star card combined with the affirmation “I understand that you feel worried, but you have an amazing track record of surviving crazy times.”
In one of the servers I’m a member of, yesterday’s question of the day is if there is such a thing as “too much positivity”. The answer to that is absolutely. Yes. It’s called Toxic Positivity, and takes optimism and positivity too far, creating unrealistic expectations and ignoring the negative or harmful issues for a pair of “rose colored glasses”.
I worried, when I started doing this daily mental health exercise, that it would become like that. Toxic and ugly. Instead, it turns out that it’s just encouraging. There’s a great deal of negative inner talk that goes on in my head, and this daily “finding the positive” exercise helps balance that out. It doesn’t take it away, it just makes sure that I -also- see something positive or optimistic instead of only the dark and negative.
I hope others also feel that way about it when they read it.
Today’s cards are about hope, and about trusting that even in the most painful of times that there is an end and a change somewhere ahead in the future. That it won’t last forever, and that when things are at their roughest? We don’t need to thrive or succeed… we just need to survive until the tides change.
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June 23 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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Today’s card is the Eight of Swords combined with the “View From a Train” card.
The View From a Train card is about that sensation that happens when you are still and something else is moving, and it makes you believe for just a moment that -you- are moving. Such as when sitting in a stationary train looking out the window and the train beside yours moves… and you think it’s your train moving.
Combined with the Eight of Swords, these cards pose the question… are you actually moving toward your goals and aspirations? Or are you actually standing still and stagnant while the chaos of life around you fools you into thinking you are?
The encouragement here between the interaction of these two cards is to take the time to make clear and quantitative steps towards your goals instead of just assuming that you’re “getting there”. Open your eyes, take control, and make a conscious decision to act become true movement forward.
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June 24 – Mental Health Card of the Day
Today’s meditation was skipped.
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Today’s card is the Knight of Pentacles combined with the affirmation “Just try. It’s okay if it’s not as good as yesterday.”
Progress takes time. Sometimes? We have setbacks along the way, and that’s okay. As long as we continue to keep our eye on the goal? We’re going to get there eventually.
Today’s cards are a reminder that it’s impossible to be at our best every single day, and that that’s okay. It doesn’t mean we’re failing or that we should give up, it just means we need to adjust our expectations of ourselves to fit rather than pushing ourselves so hard that it becomes impossible to meet those expectations at all.
Twisting the Leaf 