Remembering to Let Yourself Unwind

Staying true to yourself is one of the most important things you can do.

It’s possible to forget that you haven’t slept enough, eaten well, had enough time off for vacation.

You’ll feel irritable, make irrational decisions, and sometimes feel like your life is in a perpetual loop embodied by an existence of messiness and a lack of clarity.

All of these things create a particular sort of mental stress that will warp you faster and more dangerously than you can imagine.

And it’s impossible to stay true to yourself if you don’t recognize and — ironically — work on relieving yourself of that mental stress.

Think about it this way.

You’ll die before your body physically warps and coils from external stress (a gruesome thought), but our minds and our psychology itself are built to be more resilient than even that.

You can think yourself made of steel, just like the wire rope in the photo and the continuous windings of your life may strengthen you in the same way, but you’ll also be simultaneously rusted, bent, and broken because of that same strength.

For me, writing freely possess some sort of recuperative quality, and I think that even reading something that I’ve written just to write can help create that effect and benefit for others, to resonate with them if only briefly.

It is because of our own innate strengths that an awareness of how much tension we are taking on is so important.

Recognizing what gives you the most tension in your life and simply acknowledging, relaxing, and letting go of the issue consciously can mitigate and slowly undo certain feelings of numbness that some of us are all too familiar with.

And to meticulously maintain that awareness symbolizes one way of staying true to yourself.