The Morita therapy | Ep 18 Journal Of Small Musings

Alright,
Welcome back for another episode of Journal of Small musings, with yours truly.
It's probably been a month since the last episode. So let's get started.

Today, I'll address an important problem,
Have you ever felt like you can't control your thoughts and emotions
Continuous mood swings eventually lead to anxiety and in my case mild depression.
that is the thing we're trying to find a solution for.

So there was this dude in Japan named Shomo Morita, he introduced a technique for solving this.
Hence, Morita therapy

The basic principle of Morita therapy is that
"You can't control your emotions, but you can control your actions"
That sounds cliche but let me elaborate.

Step one is accepting the fact that we have no control over our emotions,
That we'll feel what we're bound to feel.
But what we are feeling and what we do are 2 very different things.

another principle that works here is knowing that our actions are going to affect our feelings.

This is the gist of Morita therapy.
Now there's a deeper technique in which Morita expected us to implement in our lives.
But I'm gonna tell you how I implemented it in my life with positive results.
Because we are all working class of beings, hence we have more factors to consider.

There are _ things I did, which certainly worked for me.

1. Doing one thing at a time, i.e. not to multi-task.
We as humans are so accustomed to doing so many things at a time,
that it really takes a toll on our mental health.
for example, Do not touch your phone to reply to a text when you are reading a book.
This eased up on my brain big time I felt like I was starting to live in the moment more.

2. I started accepting whatever I was feeling by asking for a reason like why I was feeling them.
I accepted that these emotions are a part of me.
But I'm still going to do what I want to and what I have to do.

3. whenever I felt like I was losing control in my head, I stopped doing what I was doing.
closed my eyes, took a deep breath, observed everything that was going on in my head without trying to change it.
Like I was in a zoo. Eventually, things settle down and you get back to work.

4. One more thing I focused on was trying to minimize the amount of content I was exposed to.
In this day and age, we are continuously exposed to memes, tik toks, video, audio, music and all this feels a little too much.
So instead I stopped checking my phone for at least 1 hour after I woke up as well as 1 hour prior I go to bed.
It certaily helps.

5. Trying to do something in which you can find Flow, i.e something you feel focused or engrossed in the task.
For it was reading a book, I felt calm and refreshed after a read a book.

There are a few more but these certainly worked for me. I'd certainly encourage you to do the same.
You'll love the experience.

Those who want to read about Morita therapy and similar concepts should certainly check out a book by
Hector Garcia and Fransec Miralles named Ikigai, It's a world-famous piece of literature.

Hope this helps someone.
Goodluck and goodbye.
Keep hustling.