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  • GROUNDS MY MIND DURING THE MOMENT
    November 25, 2024 Rebecca Sharrock

    GROUNDS MY MIND DURING THE MOMENT

    I’ve mentioned (very often) in previous blogs that I almost always have to ground and stabilise my thoughts and feelings. Whenever I experience anxiety from unexpected disruptions throughout the day, things not going according to schedule, and unsettling flashbacks, I’m...

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  • LEARNING OTHER LANGUAGES ALSO DISTRACTS ME FROM MY WORRIES
    May 15, 2024 Rebecca Sharrock

    LEARNING OTHER LANGUAGES ALSO DISTRACTS ME FROM MY WORRIES

    In previous blogs I have spoken a lot about how I use Minecraft, gaming and mindfulness colouring to wind down. All of those things offer me a chance to mentally escape my worries for a brief while. However it’s not solely what would be referred to as “recreational activities” that enable one to become relaxed and calm. Depending upon our own passions and interests, certain activities that involve work and learning are very effective with allowing us to unwind as well.
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  • AN UNUSUAL YET USEFUL ACTIVITY
    March 28, 2024 Rebecca Sharrock

    AN UNUSUAL YET USEFUL ACTIVITY

    As I have previously mentioned, I had no idea that I had HSAM (Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory) until I was diagnosed with it at 23 years old; nor did I know that the condition even existed until I was 21 years old. It was my firm belief that every person thought, felt and remembered in exactly the same way as I do.

    Yet regardless of whether I knew about my style of memory being somewhat rare or not, there was always an activity (which I now know to be related to my HSAM) that I enjoyed doing since I was a preteen.

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  • Image of a person painting a mindfulness picture at table
    July 6, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    DOING ARTWORK IS BRINGING MINDFULNESS TO LIFE

    The first thing that comes to mind when many of us think of mindfulness, is that it solely involves meditation and/or breathing exercises. Yet despite many being available that do involve meditation, there are also other ways of practising mindfulness. Doing artwork is one example. In truth activities which could be termed as artwork are vast. But the reason why visual art (that of which is intended to be aesthetic to someone by sight or purely and simply seeing) is mentioned in the following paragraph is merely because it’s an activity which I myself do.
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