Overwhelmed To The Max

[Driftr]

How do you guys keep going on the days where your so overwhelmed it co sums you?

[Starrlight]

I was overwhelmed and I made myself get out and spent about two hours in nature. As soon as I got back home I got stressed but trying my best and that’s all we can do. What is overwhelming you if you feel like talking about it? Best to you. P.s. I’m very overwhelmed at this time too.

[Driftr in reply to Starrlight]

There's so much. Finances, work, family arguments, home life, recently made some bad decisions im trying to recover from. Just all seems so heavy

[Starrlight in reply to Driftr]

I completely feel ya! Things do tend to get heavy. I think too hard sometimes. Anything we can do to lighten things up is so healthy. I look to my kiddos as they are such free spirits! I love their wild nature. Forgive yourself for bad decisions as they are in the past. Not that it’s easy to do believe me I know.

[Daveacr1959 in reply to Driftr]

It reminds me of a video I watched yesterday about Budda. The person was upset about praying and being faithful to Budda thier god. And why did Budda still give them so many problems? Budda said write all your problems on a list, and hang it on the tree with all the other problems people have put on the tree. Then take a different list and that will be your new problems. The person was scared to open the new list . Because what if it was way worse than what they left behind. Budda told them life is full of problems. You must be brave and face them with courage. Because they come and go. Always. For everyone.

Religion has good bits of knowledge in its teachings. I have not read about all types . Just Christianity, Budda and Hindu. Religion also has some ancient scary things that look like they are just stories made up , by primitive people. The creator gave us a skeptical instinct to survive. I’m sure we are fore given, if we read something, and question it. Like in the Bible it says god wiped out the whole world in a flood. And we are all ancestors of Noah and family of 8. How did they have incest to build the people up, with no birth defects. I believe they were all Jewish? Would that not mean everyone would have a tiny bit of Jewish d n a ?

I was watching a show on p b s about Neanderthals. And it said everyone alive today has 3-7 percent Neanderthal d n a . Our modern ancestors homo erectus mated with Neanderthals. The show said it was probably to learn the ways of the Neanderthals. As they had great survival skills. I am just a high school educated man in his 60,s. If I have these types of questions, I imagine what the college educated people of today, who were taught so much more than me ask? There’s only 2 theories to creation of life. A warm body of water, acting like a womb . And some disgusting creatures crawled on land and developed lungs. And eveolved into all we see today.. or god.. I chose and pray to god.. a god I can never fully understand.. except love.. god is all about unconditional love.. that much I know.. I don’t think my great grandparents are sting rays , made by a miracle of the sun . And turned into all the life we see. But I know there are over a billion people who think this is true. That we came from animals made by an unexplained miracle of the sun and star dust. And I respect thier rights to believe. And I see why they believe it.. we act like mean vicious animals to one another much of the time. Thanks Budda for reminding us to be brave and face the problems head on!

[Call_me_anything in reply to Daveacr1959]

Can you share something you learnt about Hinduism?

[Daveacr1959 in reply to Call_me_anything]

To be honest, it was so long ago I read about it. They believe in reincarnation. They have sacred cows they treat like pets or even better. They try not to harm any life. Even bugs and things. It was so long ago that’s all I remember.

[Ryanlion]

Try living one day at a time or even 1 hour. This is what i do when it all gets too much and of course a walk in nature can be very healing.

[Lve2dance in reply to Ryanlion]

Facts 😁.. I'm with you on everything you said

[catsrock]

I do deep breathing or tapping meditations.

[Daveacr1959]

I take an ice cold shower or bath, to snap me back Even 60 degree water for 10 minutes will work

It produces chemicals in the brain.

You need 5 minutes if it’s colder than 50-55

And Wim Hof guided breathing exercises free on you tube helps.

And so does 40 minutes of cardio exercise.