Why my mental health improved after I got big into writing

I’m writing this, grateful, as I move into my fifth decade.

(Fifth?! Yeah, turned forty a few days ago - still no grey hairs, not even joking.)

Things used to be so much worse for me.

I’d dread the day ahead because I knew I’d be in a battle with my thoughts and emotions.

Back then, I believed ‘situations’ caused my stress and strain.

I’d fear meetings.

I’d calculate how to avoid certain events.

I’d figure out in my head exactly what I’d say.

Most of all, I believed something was not quite right about me.

I felt at odds with the world like I had to mould myself to the world and its strange ways.

You ever get that feeling?

That there’s something wrong with you and you need ‘healing?’

Society certainly drills this point 24/7.

What if you could live like the world had to mould itself to you?

What if the world, in a funny kind of way, was a reflection of you?

Think good, feel good, world good.

This is the epiphany I had many years ago, which changed my whole experience.

A mentor taught me how my obsession with trying to fix myself was actually making things worse.

I was continually thinking about myself and what was ‘wrong’ with me, that I was inadvertently emphasising my perceived problem.

What changed?

Understanding: where we place our attention is how we create our reality.

Strange way to describe it, huh?

But I think you get what I’m saying at a deeper level.

In my twenties, when I finally understood how thoughts worked and turned away from trying to ‘heal’ → towards becoming a better writer...

...Things started to take off.

I was asked to speak on stages around the world. I felt lighter and happier. My relationships with people were no longer filled with so much drama.

So, if I can leave you with one thing: focus on your craft, not on yourself.

I go into more depth on this story and how I learned to understand and redirect my thoughts to dramatically reduce my stress and anxiety in the easy-to-absorb Untethered Mind course.

By simply understanding your thoughts and redirecting your energy to creation, you can diminish your stress and give yourself an insane advantage sooner rather than later.

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Until next time, dragons,

Love, Alex