May Is Mental Health Awareness Month - Time To Take Off Your Masks
Mental Health Matters
The more you that know about yourself and your surroundings, the better off you will be when trying to understand your own emotions, thoughts and actions.
Our surroundings play a significant role in shaping our thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and overall health, and learning about the impact of our surroundings on our mental health is a valuable way to take control of our own well-being.
MASKS - WHAT ARE WE HIDING
The definition of a mask: a disguise to cover up the face.
Why do people feel the need to hide themselves from the world?
For countless people, before they step outside to start their day, they choose to arm themselves with a mask. This process automatically puts their brain into protection mode. You surround yourself with this invisible bubble of safety. The mind shifts to a place where everything is guarded.
Why do you not want others to see who you really are? What are you so desperately hiding?
These are great questions that you should be asking yourself if you are living in darkness behind that mask of shame.
As you march forward, the mask thickens with many layers sugar coating the reality of all that harbors underneath. Silent thoughts, “Do not look me in the eye as you may get a glimpse of the reality hidden so perfectly, tucked away beneath the iron clad wall of pain.”
As the years pass, countless covers overlay one another forming a thick surface that refuses to budge, hardening, tightening until you feel suffocated by the harsh reality of life. You are now lost in between the lines of disaster waiting to unfold as the grip is faltering at the seams, boiling up, and getting ready to burst.
You hold on for dear life, fighting tooth and nail to keep that mask secured so tightly, that nobody will ever see the truth that lies beneath your sweat-soaked coverings. As your shaking soul quivers, breaking down, head drooped, completely saddened by the unspoken words written on the notepad inside your mind. You are totally lost in a time warp of the past.
As the soul withers in the darkness, it scrambles to seek the light. That inner spirit does not want to be suppressed any longer. Ultimately, it wants to abandon this life of silent hell, refusing to succumb to the madness any longer. The silent whispers are calling out to you, begging to be set free only to be subdued for a moment, and then pounding back in your ears. This is silent but deafening at the same time, “I need to be FREE!”
“Help me say the words out loud” – “I know you hear me.”
Our souls do speak to us!
Now, take a step back for a moment and really think about this scenario going on inside your mind. As you read this passage above, what do you feel?
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The words that are left unspoken - The damage runs deep