Healing mental health naturally

I don’t know about you but since 2020 my mental health has been through the wringer. These challenges have surprisingly gifted me with great strength and liberation. I turned 30 this year which for a lot of people signifies a milestone of incredible growth as a human being. We go through many of these in our lifetimes but I have to tell you, turning 30 has been quite the experience and my mental health was a significant theme in this growth. I wont get into the nitty gritty of what happened because it’s just too crazy. But what I will tell you is that I overcome all of my challenges in the end without taking any medication or having any therapy, which I am really surprised and proud of. I will say though that my friends and family were my medication and therapy throughout this difficult time and I couldn’t thank them enough.

Healing your spirit

Everyone is unique and everyone has their own way of dealing with things, so taking the spiritual route wont appeal to everyone. Some people are happy to take medication and that works for them. Personally I prefer to believe that i’m not sick its just that I had been through a traumatic experience which affected my spirit. We all go through difficult times, some more than others and some more extreme than others. It doesn’t mean I need to be labelled as a manic depressive. I was keen to find out whether this was the case or not, whether I could get through this difficult period with my unmedicated brain. I wanted to be able to trust my brain. I didn’t want to believe that it had failed me and now I must take this medication to always be okay. Unfortunately, the psychiatric nurses in hospital didn’t believe in me and I ended up taking depressants for some weeks and honestly, it did not get rid of my problems or my thoughts and emotions about the problems. In fact it made them worse. I now had the problem that I was relying on an anti-depressant tablet to be okay.

I had been here in the past when I was 18, I was depressed and going through a difficult time and thats when I first found meditation and Noah Elkrief on YouTube, check out some of his videos here. He has the most soothing tone of voice. It was a profound experience in my life. I went from this painful darkness to feeling completely free of pain just from changing my thoughts. I remember riding my bike to the nearest field on a sunny day. Lay on the grass allowing the sun to warm my face. I had never felt this feeling before. It was so beautiful. It felt like the first time i’d felt true happiness inside. How can something so simple be so powerful? Way more powerful than any tablet for me personally. Here I was again at 30 but on another extreme. I literally thought I was in hell. It felt like pure hell but to my amazement I felt heaven again. I feel it today. It’s not been easy to get back here but I did it. And I did it through love. Unconditional love for myself and others. Which healed my spirit, my mind and my body is a work in progress for now.

How did I do it?

With pure belief in myself.