Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. There will be other days.

An instant New York Times Bestseller! The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement. Named by The Washington Post as one of the best feel-good books of the year “It is a strange paradox, that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learnt while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard.” THE COMFORT BOOK is Haig’s life raft: it’s a collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years that originally served as gentle reminders to Haig’s future self that things are not always as dark as they may seem. Incorporating a diverse array of sources from across the world, history, science, and his own experiences, Haig offers warmth and reassurance, reminding us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of existence.

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Matt Haig was born in Sheffield, England. He writes books for both adults and children, often blending the worlds of domestic reality and outright fantasy, with a quirky twist.

Matt Haig

The Comfort Book

When sensory overload happens, your brain is overwhelmed with information from your five senses and can’t process it correctly.

Your ADHD brain is prone to being overstimulated. Once you get into that state, your brain starts telling your body that you need to escape and you lose the ability to prioritize.

Sensory Overload

Help prevent overwhelm by:<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">holding conversations in a quieter area during a party</li><li class="ql-align-justify">making a shopping list before you go to the store</li><li class="ql-align-justify">plotting out low stimulus locations that you can take refuge in</li><li class="ql-align-justify">telling a trusted friend your plan so that they can help</li><li class="ql-align-justify">getting enough sleep</li><li class="ql-align-justify">having a balanced diet</li><li class="ql-align-justify">regular exercise</li><li class="ql-align-justify">strong and healthy relationships</li><li class="ql-align-justify">meditation and mindfulness</li><li class="ql-align-justify">appropriately prescribed medication</li></ul>

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of regulation

Temperature: Changing your body changes your blood pressure and heart rate. Some cold water on your face or holding an ice cube can help.Intense Exercise: Allows you to direct the tightly wound energy into a task and trick your body into completing the stress response cycle.Paced Breathing: Can slow down your natural breathing rhythm and allow your body to focus on something other than the stimulus.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify"><a href="https://youtu.be/7tyBAv_xxLo">Figure 8 Breathing</a></li><li class="ql-align-justify"><a href="https://youtu.be/vGMWWZVcCIo">Hand Breath</a></li></ul>Progressive Muscle Relaxation: Relieves muscle tension and also focuses your attention on something other than the stimulus.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify"><a href="https://youtu.be/SNqYG95j_UQ">Progressive Muscle Relaxation Walkthrough</a></li></ul>

Help regulate by remembering TIPP

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

When you are hit with a bout of overstimulation, sometimes you feel the urge to lash out at those around you. If you can take a breath and briefly hold it at the height of your emotion, it will peak, and hopefully enough of your rational brain will kick in to prevent you from saying or doing something that you'll regret.

Getting over the peak

The first thing you should do when you are having a big emotional response is get away from the cause.The second thing is calm yourself with TIPP.The third thing is to name your feeling. This helps create distance and perspective.The last thing is to soothe yourself. You've just experienced something hard and could use a hug. Give yourself some comfort by experiencing something nice for your five senses. Look at something beautiful, taste something delicious, hear something encouraging, touch something comforting, and smell something pleasing.

Stop the cycle

One of the common symptoms of ADHD that I experience is sensory overload. This article helped me understand what is happening and some tips on how to regulate during and attempt to prevent the overload from occurring.

If you live with ADHD, you might feel overwhelmed easily. Learning a few coping tips, and making these into a routine, can help.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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How to Manage Feeling Overwhelmed with ADHD

The thankful heart is always close to the creative forces of the universe, causing count less blessings to flow toward it by the law of reciprocal relationship, based on a cosmic law of action and reaction.

The Thank You Technique

"A very simple way of securing this (impregnation of the subconscious mind) is to condense the idea which is to be the object of suggestion, to sum it up in a brief phrase which can be readily graven on the memory, and to repeat it over and over again as a lullaby."

The Baudoin Technique

1. Realise that correct direction given to your subconscious mind will heal your mind and body.2. Develop a definite plan for turning over your requests or desires to your subconscious mind.3. Imagine the end desired and feel its reality. Follow it through and you will get definite results.4. Decide what belief is. Know that belief is a thought in your mind and what you think you create.5.Believe in perfect health, prosperity, peace, wealth and divine guidance.6. Great and noble thoughts upon which you habitually dwell become great acts.

Healings By Subconscious Mind

When you affirm health, harmony, and peace for yourself or another, and when you realize these are universal principles of your own being, you will rearrange the negative patterns of your subconscious mind based on your faith and understanding of that which you affirm.

The Affirmative Method

1. Your subconscious is the builder of your body and is on job 24 hours a day. You interfere with its life giving patterns negative thinking.2. Charge your subconscious with the task of evolving an answer any problem, prior to sleep and it will answer you.3. Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent your brain to your solar plexus, your abdominal brain and brought into your world as a reality.4. Know that you can remake yourself by giving a new blueprint to your subconscious mind.5. The tendency of your subconscious is always lifeward. Your job is with your conscious mind.

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6. You build a new body every eleven months. Change your body by changing your thoughts and keeping them changed.7. It is normal to be healthy. It is abnormal to be ill. There is within the innate principle of harmony.8. Thoughts of jealousy, fear, worry, and anxiety tear down and destroy your nerves and glands bringing about mental and physical diseases of all kinds.9. What you affirm consciously and feel as true will be made manifest in your mind, body and affairs. Affirm the good and enter into the joy of living.

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<ol><li>You must remember whenever your subconscious mind accepts an idea; it immediately begins to execute it.</li><li>Consequently, if you use it negatively, it brings trouble, failure, and confusion. When you use it constructively, it brings guidance , freedom and peace of mind.</li><li>In order to overcome failure is to get your subconscious to accept your idea or request by feeling its reality now, and the law of your mind will do the rest.</li></ol>

How to get results you want?

In The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Dr. Joseph Murphy gives you the tools you will need to unlock the awesome powers of your subconscious mind. You can improve your relationships, your finances, your physical well-being. Once you learn how to use this unbelievably powerful force there is nothing you will not be able to accomplish. Join the millions of people who have already unlocked the power of their subconscious minds. I urge you to study this book and apply the techniques outlined therein; and as you do, I feel absolutely convinced that you will lay hold of a miracle-working power that will lift you up from confusion, misery, melancholy, and failure, and guide you to your true place, solve your difficulties, sever you from emotional and physical bondage, and place you on the royal road to freedom, happiness, and peace of mind.- Dr. Joseph Murphy

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Religion & Spirituality

Joseph Denis Murphy was an Irish author and New Thought minister, ordained in Divine Science and Religious Science.

Joseph Murphy

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

"Of all the uplifting, ennobling thoughts we can dwell upon, none is more powerful than this: that we are the masters of our own thoughts, the authors of our own characters, and thus the makers of our own destinies."

"Even when events or situations are out of our control, our thoughts, reactions, and responses are still within our control."

"People do not attract what they want, but what they are."

"The human will, that unseen force,Offspring of mind and soul,Can forge a path to any goal,And conquer anything in its course."

"Healthy thoughts become healthy habits. Hold a vision of yourself aglow with energy and vitality, act in harmony with that vision, and you will grow to embody it."

"Thoughts of jealousy, hatred, indifference, disappointment, and despair rob the body of its natural radiance. A 'sour face' is the expression of sour thoughts."

"To wish the best for all people; to find the good in everything; to be content in all circumstances - such thoughts are the portal to heaven.

"In order to accomplish anything, thought needs purpose. Too often, we allow our thoughts to drift aimlessly on the seas of life; purpose powers them to a desired destination."

"Those who lack a central purpose in life fall prey to worries, fears, and petty troubles, and end up stuck in self-pity. They may appear virtuous, because they lack any glaring faults and make no great mistakes, but they take a long, winding route to failure and unhappiness just the same."

"Entertaining fear and doubt never accomplished anything. The power to do springs from the confidence that you can."

"As you think, so you are.As you are, so you act.As you act, so you attain."

"A strong person cannot help a weak person unless they want to be helped; even then, the weak person must work to become stronger. By your own efforts, you must develop in yourself the qualities you admire in another."

"Good leaders are scarce because the majority of people are followers. Let's stop thinking and acting like helpless victims, rise up, and become leaders."

"To achieve anything - even material possessions - we must lift our thoughts above sloth and self-indulgence."

"All spiritual and intellectual achievements come from contemplating the beautiful, the good, and the true."

"Dreamers are the redeemers of the world. Humankind is blessed in good times, and sustained through hard times, by the visions of dreamers."

"The person who cherishes a beautiful vision in their heart will one day realize it.

"Cherish your visions and ideals; cherish the music that moves your heart. For out of your love will flow your purpose, your unique contribution to better this world."

"All that you need is within yourself - awaken your powers. Self-discipline is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power."

"Say to your heart, 'Peace, be still.'"

For over 120 years, As A Man Thinketh by James Allen has been considered one of the greatest self help books ever written. It focuses on how our thoughts sculpt our lives and our destinies, giving guidance in a surprisingly compact and quick read. Here are a few quotes from its pages.

THIS little self-help volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that-- "They themselves are makers of themselves." By virtue of the thoughts, which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.

James Allen is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. James Allen has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. James Allen's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

James Allen

As a Man Thinketh

Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried;but you've actually been planted.

Maybe it’s not the end; maybe it’s the start.

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Christine Caine: When You’re In A Dark Place

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Happiness quotes 

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧, 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐞𝐝. 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞!

𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰...

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Moving On: Embracing Change and Success

Positive thinking can have significant impacts on our overall well-being. It has been linked to <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/positive-thinking/art-20043950">increased life span</a>, <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/positive-thinking/art-20043950">lower rates of depression</a>, <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/positive-thinking/art-20043950">reduced levels of distress and pain</a>, and <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/positive-thinking/art-20043950">greater resistance to illnesses</a>. Adopting a positive mindset means <a href="https://vertexviews.wordpress.com/2020/08/23/recreate-yourself/">approaching negative news or stressful situations with an optimistic outlook</a>, acknowledging the challenges but understanding that you have the resilience to overcome them.

The Power of Positive Thinking

Negativity can seep into any relationship, even the most positive ones. It’s natural to experience <a href="https://www.vitanova.co.za/the-importance-of-positive-thinking-in-a-relationship/">periods of doubt or negativity</a>, as relationships require hard work and dedication to maintain a solid foundation. However, it’s crucial to address negativity proactively to prevent it from eroding the bond you share.

Overcoming Negativity In Relationships

Being positive is essential for building both personal and professional relationships. Positive people are <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-positivity-why-being-positive-important-clients-clarence">more likeable, persuasive, and successful</a>. Positivity helps you win friends and influence people. As Dale Carnegie said, <a href="https://vertexviews.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/these-three-words-can-change-your-life/">you can make more friends in two months by being interested in others than in two years by trying to get them interested in you</a>. Positivity also makes you more persuasive. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-positivity-why-being-positive-important-clients-clarence">Positive and upbeat people are more likely to persuade others, as it makes them seem more likeable and trustworthy</a>.

Attitude in Relationships

Resilience is the capacity to adapt and bounce back from life’s misfortunes, setbacks, and adversities. It involves having the inner strength to rebound from challenges without getting stuck or feeling like a victim. Resilience can help protect mental health and allow you to better cope with conditions like depression and anxiety, enabling you to keep going both physically and psychologically.

Cultivating Resilience

Maintaining a positive attitude and outlook can be a game-changer, especially during life’s inevitable challenges.

Maintaining a positive attitude and outlook can be a game-changer, especially during life's inevitable challenges. I believe cultivating the right mindset is a gradual process that demands conscious effort and self-encouragement. To start each day on a high note, I recite affirmations like "I am resilient and capable," "Today is full of potential," and "I…

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Navigating Life with the Right Attitude

In lucid dreams, you are aware of dreaming and can control the dream.
- Lucid dreaming is a learnable skill.
- There are many techniques to help you have lucid dreams.
- You are aware that you are dreaming without waking up.
- Lucid dreaming has been linked to thinking about thinking.
- The most active parts of the brain while lucid dreaming are the frontolateral and frontal areas.
- It can be helpful for recurrent nightmares.

6 Inroductive Ideas about Lucid Dreaming

Some ideas extracted from sample records for lucid dream induction

Lucid dreaming - awareness while sleeping 

What hapens when you listen to a music or a song you love?It gets saved in your backend of brain and it stays there for long, if you consciously notice you will see that you are repeating the music or beats whole day.Whats the problem?When we meditate, we focus on our breathing, our breathing is calm and it gets saved in our minds backend which will makes you feel lighter and calmer whole day, the opposite of it what music does it creates clutter in your backend.

Music, The Destroyer Of Peace

If a person is satisfied then he doesn't need more money, he doesn't feel lacking behind, he doesn't blame himself, ultimately he is satisfied with himself.What satisfaction asks from you??It asks your betterment, On what you are working doesn't matter, how you are putting your efforts on daily bases is what matters.It's not like you worked for 1 year and you are satisfied whole life ,it's a continuous process, so only "choose the things you love" and make it your way of life and feel satisfied everyday.

Money Has Nothing To Do With Your Satisfaction

Your Self control is tested when your mind comes up with 1000s of random uplifting ideas.

Everytime you say no to something you like or want or are attracted towards You are losing some amount of energy.This energy which gets lost when we say 'No' is limited and recharges daily. You will get exhausted if you say no to every little useless thoughts.So trick is to say less number of 'No's for that environment is game changer.Make your environment so much supportive to your goals that there never comes a scene of saying 'No' , improvise your system (friends, eating, sleeping, thoughts), what you consume is very important throughout day, focus on that.Be a lazy productive person.

Environment : The Game Changer

<ul><li>Take care of yourself like someone you love,</li><li>Innertalk is very important to survive ups and downs of emotions.</li><li>Never show yourself more than or less than what you are actually in front of someone/yourself.</li><li>It's you vs you don't compare yourself with anybody else (if you are putting efforts and are growing that's all pace is not important thing ,with time you will gain that power)</li><li>Innertalk example when you fall short - "yes I know, hmm but I can't act like fool and do more harm to my body,it's great that I have this much consciousness in these hard times, let's give it some time so that it -</li></ul>

Be Authentic To Yourself

<ul><li>-can heal and I will come back stronger but for now I will not quit because I am falling short, I will do whatever is possible me it's fine if I am not on peak I am human afterall, these are the times where i should not give up"</li><li>Showing up daily is what takes lot of courage (taken from atomic habits)</li><li>Life asks you years of time and sacrifices for big things, you can't master everything in life, life is short, so do the things you love don't follow others passions.</li><li>Get up everytime you fall short.dont forget to give your body and mind healthy rewards so that it becomes strong for you big goals.</li></ul>

Continued..

It's how to respond in the points when you are totally out of track or feeling low which decides whether you will accomplish your goals or not.For whom you should compromise ❓<ul><li>Family.</li><li>Close friends.</li><li>Partner.</li></ul>If you think once, nothing in this world can add meaning to your life, even if you become billionaire, became popular etc etc actually it will not matter much if you were not there for your loved ones when they needed you. They are the actual riches of your life.When you compromise your things for them, you should be inline with your real state and get back to it after fulfilling their needs.

Compromises, Being Strong From Inside.

You will find yourself when you devote yourself completely for your loved ones.

Less clutter in your mind more it will be easy to control it, Whenever we do new task, we have to think about it so it takes some amount of energy.Routines are the one solution for these all thoughts, "i m tired, I am doing anything in life, I should do something" and getting into some random track and failing then again "why I am like this? I have to do something"These all are stupid thoughts which come in people who never tasted and started the real journey towards their dreams. Routines make your base strong, they will make you disciplined, they will give you feeling of satisfaction.

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I am lazy productive person

In depth solutions to make you feel satisfied and your life sorted.

Journey to Self control Mastery

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