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If you are anything like a human, you’d have surely wanted to live with the mind you once had.
Maybe not the experiences or the exact life but The Mindset.
Just The Mindset.
The way you used to think, your belief systems, your emotional management, your relationship with yourself, and how you used to talk to yourself.
The way you used to live.
What you miss from yourself, which is literally yourself, that you once exactly had the way you wanted, right in that sweet spot.
Even if we’ve all heard:
“Life isn’t all candies and rainbows”,
we still need first-person experiences to fully understand and digest the depth of words like these.
It demands true experiences under harsh ethical realities to fully comprehend how multi-dimensional Life is.
Anyway, if you’ve been through those mental rollercoasters, let me bring you peace because you are not alone.
With my experience and observation, I can 100% say that every single person living on this planet would’ve or will go through those mental rollercoasters, where they just want their past self back, so bad.
Because… who said life is short!?
Life is stupidly long and everyone has enough time to get into some sort of mental breakdown.
Which is… a good thing because, at the other end of the pretty dark tunnel, it would give you immense growth which no other experience on the planet can ever deliver.
Some people try to intentionally change for good reasons, and some due to circumstances, then go through the rollercoaster of losing their mind and missing their past self.
Who am I to say all this you may ask, because one, I’m a human (Nice.), two, I’m a thinker (risk factor📈), and three, I’ve definitely lost my mind multiple times in a row and I’ve definitely got back up one more time than I’ve fallen.
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But hey, the point is not to brag but to give you some peace that you are not alone.
Whenever a problem is so common and widespread, also realize that its solution (too) is common and widely available.
I’ve definitely had mental breakdowns before, and if I can overcome that, you can too, which is no surprise because we’re all humans (khm khm…)
You wouldn’t have gone through them if you were a fish.
(Kinda cringe but anyways.)
With my experience as a lifelong thinker and a host of pretty mental thoughts, I’ve shared some of my insights on getting back the mind you once had and some considerations to reflect on before you begin the journey.
I truly hope it will help you live a better life with a better mind.
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You Sure About That?
The first thing to clarify before we get into the discussion of getting back the mind you once had is whether you really want to get it back or is it something that is meant to be, for a good that is unknown to you.
Because let’s be real, we cannot predict what life has to offer, and we cannot predict if that change is meant for something better to come in your life…
…If you are now confused about wanting your mind back, let me help you because, if that’s the case, then nine times out of ten, you don’t really need to get that mind back.
Meaning, that you’d probably be okay living with the mind you have now and trust that it’s all for a reason and everything will fall into place soon.
Or maybe you still have yet to realize that it's all growth that's happening to you.
That’s the first bucket; trusting it’s all for a reason.
But if you are in the second bucket, i.e., you are not confused and you are 100% sure you want that mind back (like otherwise you will die or something), then I’d still suggest evaluating your values once more and understand if you genuinely want that old mind back or can live (and grow) with the mind you now have with yourself at this moment.
More often than not, I recommend trusting the flow of life with a slight hope and wisdom that it’ll all fall into the right place at the right time.
Just make sure you don’t do any sins or bad deeds that’ll shift you away from the life you want to fall nicely into place.
If that slight hope and wisdom don’t give you enough certainty in life (What is certainty in life?), these insights would help you if you are that locked into the second bucket or lost hope in the first one.
PS: Please don’t lose hope in the first bucket.
Spoiler: Keep in mind that these insights would only help you up to a limit i.e., if you are looking to bring back your mind from like 2015, maybe these insights would not satisfy you. Thank you very much. Hope you find this useful.
Sit and Think
Okay, maybe not like monk mode but being reminiscent of those memories and trying to recall how you felt during those times.
Not how you used to think but how you felt.
Now instead of sighing at yourself thinking about your old mind, take a deep breath and slowly start to believe that you still have that mind or have got that mind back.
It’s all about The Mindset. Tell yourself that you’ve got that mind back or you’ve never lost it in the first place.
Pretend. Then believe.
Truly it’s all a game of thought processes and belief systems and nothing else.
By hacking your thoughts into believing that you still have, have acquired the mind you once had, or have never lost it in the first place, you can start to live with the old mind you wish to have, slowly with consistent compounding thoughts that create the corresponding supporting belief systems.
Interact With What You Once Used to
It might be a plant, a toy, an outfit, or a book. It could be anything.
Things that bring those old feelings back and shine a glow at those memories are a great way to re-live those moments, the time you had those feelings.
Of course, it’s only a great way if you truly want to re-live that life now and you should probably not sigh at your current life. Again.
Engaging with things that provoke older feelings or resonate with the past self you wish to have is a great way to bring you closer to your old mind and merge with the life you wish to live again.
Read Your Older Journals
This is an even greater and much more effective way to gain back your lost mind because your journals are your thought processes and your old journals are your old thought processes, which are the fundamental raw materials of a mind.
Of course, this will only work if you have the habit of dumping your thoughts in detail on a piece of paper, but this is by far the best way to bring those old thoughts and align with that old mind you want to have again.
Thought processes and belief systems are the roots of any mindset. Having access to those old thought processes is by far the most effective way to cultivate and harvest your lost mind again, more than any other method.
One More Thing…
After you’ve made up your mind that you’ve got your past self back, don’t get disappointed by irrelevant external responses that suggest your thoughts are imaginary, i.e., don’t care what other people think about you. They don’t know your story and where you are coming from.
But at the end of the day, the whole undeniable theme here is about cultivating the right thoughts and believing you still have or have got what you want, which is a mind that, still in its deepest roots, is a collection of compounding thought processes and supporting belief systems.
Hope you found value in these insights and the facts before them.
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Jasir Ibrahim