The Art of letting go

"Mental health" What comes to your mind when I say these words ?

Getting rid of your boring job ?

Getting rid of a toxic relationship ?

Imagining a life of your dreams ?

I guess all.

No matter how lightly people take their mental health, it needs to be cared for because it is equally important as one's physical health. People hardly focus on their mental health because looking physically fit is trending nowadays where being happy and staying sane is being forgotten.

Be it getting an amazing body, a charming personality, amazing job, perfect relationship, or a wonderful life, everybody thinks, thinks and thinks until that particular thought doesn't come into the overthinking category. Ain't nobody calm who isn't overthinking about anything and everything, except monks and gods. Plenty of thoughts that hurt you result in overthinking in a way that mentally harms your peace and calm, taking a toll on your mental health, thereby affecting your behavior with yourself and others.

️Mental health is all about letting go things that weigh your mind and soul down. Holding a glass full of water doesn't hurt anybody but holding it in the same position for minutes and hours is what harms everybody. The more you let a particular thought weigh you down, the more you sink into the trench of sorrow and guilt.

The art of letting go is what needs to be mastered by all. By this, I actually mean getting rid of toxic things, jobs and relationships. Letting go shouldn't be confused with giving up. Giving up without trying is a completely different thing; but the art of letting go is working on something hard enough until it doesn't stop bothering you or making you go crazy over it. I came up with this concept recently until I discovered that I was letting myself down, working at a place that makes me belittle myself.

Not believing in myself at times, doubting my own work, letting in the taunts of bullying superiors or even junior subordinates get into my mind, overthinking over something I don't give a damn about right now is all that I've done in the past 6 months.

But the moment I took time to think over the things that had taken a toll on my mental health, I felt like letting them go, after trying to get it straight for 4 months. Believe it or not, the decision of letting go of a job that I loved to the core, just because I was being let down at work and not feeling myself any day for 4 months straight, was worth it in the end.

Today on world health day, here's an art (from the artist of letting go haha) that I wanted to share via my experience of letting go of things that weighed my mind down. I quit my job. Not because I wasn't enjoying it, but because although I was enjoying it a lot, I had to work with a boss who did more of politics and less of molecular biology. I knew I deserved everything nice and pumpkin spice :P. So why lose my mental peace for something that wouldn't bother me in future ? It's not that I didn't try, but after 4 months of trying hard, I felt like letting it go. 6 months of my awfully wonderful job.

Your life is the same, you're no quitter; but letting go of things that ruin your mental health, cost you your peace & take you through times of battling your own self is what matters at the end. Holding onto toxic things lands you in a mental asylum not immediately, but eventually. Whereas letting go keeps you bubbly, shiny & sane. Let it go when you feel it's right because YOLO !!

"Find peace in chaos.

And if you can't, let it go and live peacefully in your own cosmos"

- Rachna Jadhav

@theresilientresearcher