During The Weekend, Calm Your Chaotic Heart And Mind With These 7 Simple Ways

Illustration of calming a chaotic heart and mind (Pexels/Austin Guevara)

JAKARTA – A chaotic heart and mind make you tired. This makes it uncomfortable, especially on weekends. To calm the heart and mind, everyone has their own way.

According to Melanie Greenberg, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, life coach, and author of The Stress Proof Brain, suppressing a chaotic mind and heart can make anxiety more intense and even more stressful. Greenberg recommends the most effective techniques for dealing with it, here's a list of how.

1. Try to be distant and more objective

Confusion of thoughts caused by anxiety, generally experienced when trying to protect oneself. Then make predictions that may not happen. So Greenberg's advice is quoted from the Psychology Today page, try to look at the evidence objectively.

2. Stop being one with your thoughts

Thoughts are data but not necessarily objective because in reality the possibilities are too wide. The brain will respond to threats and dangers automatically, so stop being one with your thoughts.

3. Focus on real experiences

The heart and mind are clouded with umbrellas, usually followed by 'what if' thoughts. To control the pace, you can stay focused on the real experience and believe that even the worst of events will pass.

A chaotic heart likes to make up stories that may not match reality. Not everything that is thought is accurate and happens. Sometimes biased with bad past experiences. That is, tell yourself that "what is experienced is not the same thing".

4. Journal writing

This is quite helpful and the method is simple. You only need media to write a journal containing whatever is in your heart or mind.

5. Breathe fresh air

The fresh air and the breeze make the mind clearer. Try to open doors and windows, this can help you find peace, freshness, even solutions that make your mind confused.

6. Broaden your perspective

Broadening perspectives can enrich judgment. With a narrow focus, chaos squeezes even more. This means whether things that make the mind and heart chaotic still have long-term effects. If not, stay calm and let your worries go.

7. Do different activities

If on weekdays you do the same routine. To calm your chaotic heart and mind, try going to bed and doing new activities. For example, by going for a walk to a favorite place, pursuing a hobby, to listening to or playing music for.