Space Walt

☮️ NewYork

[aestheticalspace]

A sand pendulum that creates a beautiful pattern only by its movement.

But  why does the ellipse change shape?

The pattern gets smaller because energy is not conserved (and in fact decreases) in the system. The mass in the pendulum gets smaller and the center of mass lowers as a function of time. Easy as that, an amazing pattern arises through the laws of physics.

[uxarieus]

Do you know what I love? How closely nature is linked with mentality. A walk in the woods can calm anxiety, sitting and dropping stones into a lake can ease anger, even taking time to pot some plants and look after them can keep my mind occupied from dissociation. It’s like the earth is the oldest psychiatrist of all, and it is always there to talk to, giving me a constant free prescription. Isn’t that beautiful

[spacewalt]

lunar eclipse tonight🌕 I always try to get a photo of the moon but it doesn’t come out well 😐

[spacewalt]

coffee :)

I haven’t had caffeine in over a month🤯

[virgin-on-acid]

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[womenintheirwebs-archived]

the one problem i have with people my age and younger is that a lot of us do not have hands on hobbies. like i have spoken to so many people my age who go to work, go to school and then fuck around on their phone/computer for hours and then ???????? like no wonder ur depressed and have low confidence in urself. u need to get ur hands on something, feed those dopamine receptors! learn how to play guitar, garden, scrapbook, fucking make model trains. i don’t give a shit, MAKE SOMETHING!!

it feels better than drugs when i finish making a thing—and then show it off or gift it.

and then so people my age say to me ‘well—i can’t draw/paint/knit/etc. like you can. my stuff would be terrible.’ yeah, well duh—a part of developing skill is sucking at something and then practicing it over and over and over again until you suck less. u’ll have a hard time feeling lonely or bored when you can’t stop thinking abt a technique you want to try or something you want to make for someone else. making things has SAVED MY LIFE. it gave me a reason to keep living day after day when i wanted to die.

making things have improved my generational relationships (when i worked for the newspaper i would talk to customers abt jamming recipes or cross-stitch, one of my grandmas always gives me pattern books and tell me abt when she knitted things for mom, my other grandma is giving me a wedding quilt that HER grandma gave her 50 years ago because she knows i will appreciate it). it also got me likeminded friends who also make things.

take a ceramics class! pick up water colors, bake cakes! learn to work on cars! make soap. DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE STARING AT A SCREEN.

[rannadylin]

For folks making new year’s resolutions, this is an excellent category to make some in. Nothing really compares to starting small but practicing till you have the confidence to turn out a finished product that’s just how you wanted it!

[becausedragonage]

I would love it if some of my followers took this advice to heart and then tagged me with posts about their hobbies.

[emotionalmorphine]

Seriously, getting involved in and excited about something tangible is SO important for mental health. You meet new people, you engage in a skill, and when you finish something that you’re proud of there is a HUGE boost to your self confidence and happiness.

And learning something keeps your mind young and active. Don’t let your brain basically atrophy from disuse. 

So many of us are scared to learn something new because we will suck at it, we won’t be pros immediately so what’s the point? What’s the point at all when so many people are better at it than me? And of course I could say the usual shtick about how everyone started somewhere once, and blah blah, BUT! Learning and failing can be very good for your mental health, too. I know, right? But learning to accept failure and reward yourself for small improvements is so important. 

And when you do figure out that bit that was difficult, or finally get a bit right that’s taken so many tries, that success is so much sweeter than if you did it right first go.

Try a bunch of stuff! You may end up finding you really like something you would have never thought to try, or you might branch off from a hobby you thought you would enjoy and get involved in something related but not the same. There are hobbies and skills out there that most of us have never heard of, but people are out there doing them and keeping them alive.

Finally, having a hobby that you involve yourself in (for you, not for the glory of winning trophies or being popular) makes you a far more interesting and agreeable person. I know I adore when someone goes off on a tangent about something they are passionate about. I want to hear people talk about their weird specialist knowledge of the thing they are into! It can tell you so much about a person. But it also tells you they can commit to something, that they can dedicate themselves to learning, that they can accept failure and grow from it, and much more.

Seriously, if you’re depressed, if you’re bipolar or have ADHD or are just not neurotypical in any way (and if you are!) go and find yourself a hobby and get involved. It’s not a cure. Nothing is a cure. But it can be a bright spark in an otherwise dark and lonely tunnel.

[acaranna]

I ususally don’t reblog stuff like this but this rings so true.

I started knitting and crocheting because it connected me to my grandmother and it helped me refocus and not loose myself in the dark hole that opened up when my grandparents died.

To this day working with my hands keeps me grounded. Knitting, crocheting, stitching or just painting by numbers. Focusing on a pattern, a design or colour-combination helps me redirect certain thoughts.

It’s not a cure-all but it helps.

And feel free, to tag me when you share progression photos or finished projects.

[terrestrialdevil]

[poemswords]

[moosekleenex]

Give yourself a big hug for making it through this year.

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[back-to-the-stars-again]

Orion rises in winter night sky.

Credit: Amit V Purandare

[spacewalt]

just had a stress test done for my heart... make sure it’s just my crippling anxiety and not my body that’s giving me panic attacks

[rodpower78]

[stimman3000]

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[inlovin]

imagine if you loved yourself in the same way you loved another person; not caring about the flaws in the body or inside the mind, seeing the virtues even bigger, supporting, taking care. that would be a new level of self-esteem and another way to be  indestructible

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