Fighting depression is not easy, especially because of the constant self-reminders of being not good enough which can be tough to tackle given the fuzzy condition of your mind. I’ve been suffering from depression for 4 years now and if there’s one thing I’ve learned from this battle is that facing your thoughts may be a risky bet but the stakes are worth it. This battle is not just a day or week or year long. You have to make constant efforts to defeat it every day through a strong attitude. But a fuzzy brain with tangled thoughts cannot let you be strong enough to defeat depression, again and again, every day. And while it does seem a little out there, a vision board can help.
Sorting Out Thoughts
Truth be told, creating a vision board is a time demanding and overall difficult task. But one thing is for sure, once your vision board is ready, all the efforts and investment will be worth it because it is a thought-provoking task. My vision Board has helped me in so many ways. The most important of them is sorting out my own thoughts and vacating some space for peace in my mind. I have been using subliminal vision boards app for a year now. I’ve tried many others but this one stuck with me because of the variety of options it offers. Only when I saw the digital board working for me did I decide to create a physical one as well. However, the process wasn’t easy.
Facing Problems And Finding Solutions
Once you decide to create a vision board, you start thinking about what exactly is it that you have to work on to be better, to heal. So I did. Once I opened that door, there was nothing to lose and everything to gain. I’ve always avoided therapy and focused more on the medication part because like every other person suffering from clinical depression, I didn’t have the energy and will to face my problems. However, since I had already started the process, I went ahead with it and find a solution to this problem. It was summer vacation time so I didn’t have to worry about going to school. So I would wake up every day and start thinking with a paper and pen, and work on setting my priorities straight. By the time school reopened, I was done with my list of things I wanted on the vision board.
Putting My Thoughts On The Board
The only thing left was to put everything I had thought of on the board in as appealing a way as I could. Instead of an actual board, I designated an area on my wall, right in front of my bed, for the task. I put up a black colored chart-paper on the wall and added a few thumb pins, and tied strings to them to make horizontal lines. I filled those lines with pictures from magazines, newspapers, and the ones I found online making it like an Instagram page. I filled the black chart paper with my to-do list for the next day, some poems, inspirational quotes, a list of my school submission deadlines and a couple of handmade cards that I made as a creative exercise. I left a section vacant and designated it as a negative thoughts corner. I decided I would write down the negative thoughts I have and try to find a rational argument against it and when I defeat that thought with logic, I would remove that thought from the section.
With a few Tumblr pictures here and there, my aesthetically appealing vision board was ready and so was I, to use it regularly.
After putting so much energy and thought into it, being regular with updating my board and observing it regularly became easier. However, during the entire time, I was using my vision board app. Using an app along with a physical vision board have worked wonders for me and all the efforts are gradually paying off.
