Rain Basera

Keeping healthy mentally is extremely important and one of the most important tool for keeping mentally healthy is a journal. Journals help you define your problems and and to find your voice. In uncertain political times it is very important to find your true voice. One other important habit is asking yourself questions regarding your problems and it is advisable to do it vocally. Problem definition and problem resolution or conflict definition and conflict resolution is extremely important. Needless conflicts takes up your mental energy  and stalls your understanding of the situation. Instead of some vague idea troubling you you need to define the problem to make it concrete and then resolve it in a manner you can do and same should be done with internal mental or psychological conflicts. The deep politics of this country thrives on creating conflicts within people especially related to people and relationship and induce things like survivors guilt and weapnisation of your own conscience against you to create guilt and guilt tripping you so that you keep wallowing in that guilt. It's all about thoughts and ideas and relationship so it is, in this country, advisable to keep only those relationships that are worth suffering for other than survival based transactional relationships. You get mental health issues in the country so that you can't recover, mental health is part of the politics which is unfortuantely biopolitical in nature and it controls what you eat, when you shit, whom you fuck and all the other things. Fate will take its course but you have to be mindful of it. If you have defined your problem or conflict and its resolution is not possible then stoic and dignified suffering remains the only answer, though the country we live in doesn't believe in dignified suffering you can however be stoic. In majortity of cases the more conscientious you are, the more you will suffer because the panopticon is aware of your conscience and in most cases the exploitation and weaponisation of one's conscience is direct because the panopticon exploits any weakness like illness, poverty, secrets, handicaps, lack of self-confidence or self-esteem or for that matter any weakness under the sun and conscience is a weakenss and it is mostly either hereditary or value based inculcated in one's childhood. What rules this land preys on people and feeds on their suffering and this predation turns into persecution once one becomes aware of the source of their suffering and then the floodgates of identity politics open about religion, caste, family history, that little thing you stole in your childhood or something else for that matter or framing or entrapment of a political nature like branding people communist or witch or some other stigmatised thing happens. The important thing is that your subconscious or unconscious is safe and only the things you want from your consciousness which at this point becomes totally sociopolitical enter your subconscious, the recommendation is that the conflicts should only enter as examples and not as internalised guilt. Plus you should build your sanctuary in your subconscious, your winter wonderland, your oasis and do not do it consciously and you don't even need to build it in your conscious mind, just keep giving yourself suggestions to do that and regularly until bliss becomes a background state no matter how much turmoil your conscious mind is in. It's advisable to choose a deity of your choice and depend on him or her, mine are Saraswati and Chamunda.