In mental health

Hidup Damai dengan Mengenal Mindfulness


Seiring meningkatnya kesadaran masyarakat di Indonesia akan kesehatan mental dan dengan munculnya banyak akun tentang mental health di sosial media. Mungkin sebagian dari kalian gerasa familiar sama kata “Mindfulness”. Apa kalian malah baru denger kata tersebut? Tenang sekarang membuka artikel pertama ku yang mungkin berbobot hehe. Aku bakalan bahas singkat tentang mindfulness.


Apa sih itu mindfulness? Nih kalau menurut ahlinya, mindfulness merupakan suatu keterampilan dalam memberikan perhatian dengan berfokus pada satu tujuan, saat ini, dan tidak menilai (Kabat-Zinn, 1990)


Hmm, jadi kalau aku simpulin itu kira - kira gini singkatnya. Mindfulness adalah suatu kondisi dimana kamu benar benar berada disaat ini dan menyadari apa yang kamu lakukan dan apa yng ada di depan kamu.

Nah jadi dengan bersikap mindfulness, kita jadi bisa benar - benar sadar dan fokus sama tugas yang lagi kita kerjain, tanpa gampang terganggu sama pikiran kita yg sering melayang kemana - mana.

Katanya juga nih, mindfulness membuat kita ga berlarut-larut mikirin masa lalu dan ga terus menerus melamun tentang keinginan di masa mendatang. Dengan mengenal mindfulness  akan menstimulus kita untuk terus berusaha mencapai target yang direncanakan. Tuh kan banyak banget hal manfaat yang didapetin dengan kita coba menerapkan mindfulness itu sendiri.

Terus gimana caranya supaya kita bisa mindfulness? Aku rangkum beberapa tipsnya nih. Yuk intip caranya! Jadi sebenernya simpel banget ada 3 contoh caranya nih.


1. Mindful Waking

Nah pas kita baru bangun tidur, cobain deh buat duduk dulu terus tarik napas dalam dalam. Terus coba tanya ke diri kita “apa sih atau aktivitas apa aja yang mau dilakukan hari ini?”

2. Makan dengan Menerapkan Mindful

Maksudnya gimana sih makan nerapin mindfulness? Coba deh kalian perhatiin seberapa laper kalian saat itu. Pas makan, coba buat fokus sama rasa, tekstur, wanginya makanan. Singkirin dulu tuh main hp atau nonton YouTube sambil makan.

3. Mindful pause 

Nah kalau yang ini jujur aku pribadi pun jarang banget dan kayanya masih susah buat nerapinnya. Apa sih mindful pause itu? Jadi mindful pause itu suatu jeda yang sengaja dilakukan sebelum melakukan aktivitas. Contohnya nih, sebelum kalian mulai kerja atau starting your activity kalian coba buat bernapas sebelum melakukan aktivitas. Sekarang kan banyak tuh aplikasi - aplikasi yang provide feature buat meditasi. Cocok kalian coba tuuh!

Nah itu tadi penjelasan singkat tentang mindfulness. Banyak kan manfaatnya kan? Karena sekarang udah mengenal Mindfulness, yuk cobain. Karena semakin dini kamu mendalami semakin besar loh manfaatnya. 

Jangan lupa share artikel ini ke orang terdekatmu yaa dan jangan lupa juga comment kalau ada isu - isu menarik yang mungkin next time bisa ku bahas di sini đŸ˜€

Referensi:
Kabat-Zinn, J. (1990). Full catastrophe living: Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness. New York: Bantam Dell.

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Fresh Graduate? Intip Tips Interview Yuk!


Halo Semuanya ! Lama ga upload di sini, susah banget cari inspirasi apalagi disaat - saat kaya gini. beres skripsian, sidang muncul lah yang baru cari kerja. Sebenernya aku pribadi pun lagi cari - cari kerja, mungkin efek pandemi banyak perusahaan yang memutuskan hubungan kerja pegawainya, dan sekalinya ada open recruitment perusahaan tentunya cari calon karyawan yang berpengalaman. Entahlah harusnya kita yang fresh graduate pun harus bisa bersaing ya ? Tapi balik lagi semua campur tangan Allah dan kehokian.


Beberapa bulan selama pandemi ini, aku pribadi udah ngehadapin beberapa interview dan test di beberapa perusahaan. Tapi setiap beres test atau interview dan di infokan menunggu 2 minggu selalu menghilang bagai ditelan bumi. Tapi, kita ambil positifnya aku bisa sharing pengalaman aku gimana ya kan ? Sebagai manusia kita perlu berkhusnudzon aka. positive thinking akan segala hal dan berikhtiar juga berdo'a. 

Jadi biasanya prosedur test perusahaan berbeda - beda yaa, ada yang diundang untuk interview sama HRDnya atau ada yang test psikotest dulu. Seringnya sih berdasarkan pengalamanku, aku sering ngehadapin interview dulu baru test - test. Nah ada beberapa tips buat yang mau interview nih.

Pertama, Kita perlu banget banyak - banyak riset tentang peruahaannya itu. Dari sejarah, pemiliknya, manajemen perusahaannya, struktur organisasi, sama berita yang berkaitan dengan insustri perusahaan tersebut. Ini berguna kalau misal interviewer tiba - tiba nanya "Apa yang Anda ketahui mengenai perusahaan kami ?" Nah, sebagai pencari kerja yang baik, kita butuh strategi buat ngehadapin hal hal yang mungkin dapat terjadi.

Kedua, Pahami isi CV kamu. Karena pasti pertama yang ditanyain adalah tentang diri kamu. Pahami dan ingat - ingat lagi pencapaian kamu, keaktifan di kampus, kegiatan magang. Terus, coba buat rangkum tentang diri kamu, kaya kekurangan kelebihan (akan lebih baik langsung di bawa ke kasusnya ya. Contoh "Kekurangan kamu A, sebutin contohnya waktu kamu menjabat sebagai ketua divisi A, dan cara mengatasinya kekurangan kamu gimana"), menyebutkan kekurangan tentunya jangan yang klasik ya kaya "terlalu perfeksionis", gapapa kok sebutin kekurangan kamu asal kamu pun menyebutkan cara mengatas kekurangan kamu itu tersebut. 

Ketiga, Sebutkan dan Buat Interviewer yakin bahwa kamu yang terbaik buat perusahaan mereka. Ini nih yang menurutku agak sulit, bagiku yang notabenenya masih fresh graduate yang di kampus gaada magang apa - apa buat kita sendiri susah membuat perusahaan yakin ya kan ?
Tapi, yakin deh pasti ada jalannya kok. Buat yang belum ada pengalaman apa - apa, kita bisa kok akalin dengan keaktifan kita di kampus, atau mungkin kalau ada yang punya usaha, pengalaman usahanya bisa dijadikan suatu hal yang buat interviewer yakin sama kamu. Atau mungkin kalau posisi kerjanya sebagai content writer dan kamu punya dan suka menulis blog, kamu bisa masukin hal itu juga. Intinya kita harus cerdas - cerdas memanfaatkan yang ada jadi sebuah keuntungan.

Keempat, Siapkan pertanyaan buat interviewer. Ini hal kecil yang biasanya fresh graduate bingung harus tanya apa. Waktu awal - awal interview, aku pun ngalamin hal yang sama. Kalau aku pribadi banyak - banyak baca tips dari orang yang berpengalaman di Linkedln. Tapi biasanya yang aku tanyain seputar culture dari perusahaan, "apakah jika kita ingin mengejar jenjang karir ada training khusus ?", dan berkaitan dengan pandemi bagaimana perusahaan mengahadapinya, dan terakhir kemarin aku coba tanya mengenai masukan para interviewer mengenai interview hari itu. Dan jujur beliau - beliau cukup memberikan jawaban yang cukup membangun. Karena, pertanyaan seperti itu tentunya memiliki manfaat juga buat performa kita ke depannya. Dan pertanyaan tersebut sah - sah saja untuk di tanyakan (aku dapet tips juga dari Linkedln).

Kelima, Percaya diri dan siapkan mental. Ayo, manfaatkan peluang yang ada. Interview ini mungkin jalan rezekimu. Kamu di panggil untuk interview oleh perusahaan, berarti perusahaan mempertimbangkan kamu. Jangan takut ini itu dulu, kamu harus percaya diri. Karena dengan percaya diri kamu akan membawa energi positif saat test maupun interview. Oh iya tapi jangan lupa buat selalu berdo'a dan minta restu ke orang tua dan keluarga ya. 

P.S kalau bisa sebelum pergi atau melakukan interview sedekah misal ketemu dengan tukang ngamen atau pengemis, ayoo mungkin dengan sedekah itu bisa melancarkan kamu.

Buat kali ini, mungkin aku share tentang tips interview dulu yaa. Next time, kalau banyak yang baca (semoga) aku bakal share tentang tips testnya. Ayo kita sama - sama berdo'a semoga besok kita dapet kabar baik ya temen - temen. Tetap semangat, sabar, ikhtiar dan berdo'a!

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Music Review 2.0 : what’s on my head ?





Hello everyone! Just busy with my essay (the struggle of 7th semester student). You know, lately I’ve been through a lot of many things in my life. So, when I faced with sooo freakin’ many bad day, long day or whatever you always called it. I usually listen to music that related with my life that day or that time.

­—What kind of bad day I’ve ?
Many kind of things. So many school drama I’ve been through, friends drama etc. Honestly, my life is full or drama LoL. I don’t know, I hate it but it always follows me to everywhere I go. And a couple month a go, I always feel like my heart beating so fast, my hands and foots gettin’ cold and then I felt numb also sometimes it so hard for me to breathe. It came when some drama or some thing triggered me, and that “things” made me feel so uncomfortable.

—What I feel when it comes ?
Of course I felt uncomfortable with that, when it came I can’t sleep at night. I feel like my head is full of thoughts and these have voices. So maybe you can imagine how I felt.

Actually, this time I want to share about some music that I listened when I’ve a bad day. So here we go !!!

1.    Sasha Sloan – Keep On




So, lately, I am addicted to all of Sasha Sloan’s music. Because everytime I listened it, I feel like my soul and my feelings just dance to ‘em. This songs, tell me to “You gonna be ok. Keep breathing even when you had a bad day”. Sasha tell me, how frustrated she is :

 “The walls are starting to cave in
Sometimes,
I wish I was somebody else
When my mind starts misbehaving “

Oh Gosh! You really need to listen to this song for real !!



2. Jeremy Zucker – all the kids are depressed


So the next song is ... *drum roll* YES!! It’s Jeremy Zucker’s songs! One time I listened to it when I felt I’m not alright and it is okay not to be okay right? I love this part :

“I'm not feeling alright
Staying up 'til sunrise
And hoping shit is okay
Pretending we know things
I don't know what happened
My natural reaction is that we're scared
So I guess we're scared”

This song tell me how kids are getting scared untill they stayed up ‘till surise. Jeremy tell us that how he can’t really keep lying about his feelings.

“No I can't really keep lying
'Cause I've been scared all along”

So make sure to add this song on your playlist!


3.      Julia Michaels ft. Selena Gomez – Anxiety



I really really love this song because it’s so f**kin relatable for me. First I love this part :

“I make all these plans with friends and hope they call and cancel
             Then I overthink about the things I'm missing
                        Now I'm wishing I was with 'em”

Yep! I always have that overthinking and hope my friends cancel all these plans we made before. For first time I thought it is just me who always that kind of thought. But the, Julia made songs about that plus with Selena!! Then this part :

“But all my friends, they don't know what it's like
They don't understand why I can't sleep through the night

I've been told that I could take something to fix it
Damn, I wish it, I wish it was that simple”

They always think that it was just simple. Like, you should’ve to close to your god, be happy and don’t be sad all time. Okaay, I hope it was that simple like what you just said to me. One time, somebody tells me to enjoy my anxiety ahahaha and I just like “okay I’ll try it, and don’t blame me if it will fuck me.” LoL.


4.      Sabrina Carpenter – Exhale



“Can I exhale for a minute?
       Can I get this out in the open?
           Can I sit down for a second?
              Can I breathe?
                Can I exhale for a minute?
                  Can we talk it out? I don't get it
                     Can I calm down for a moment?
                        Can I breathe for just one second?”

Sabrina tells us how we need to exhale and breathe. From this song, She also tells us how she put too much on everything.

“I put too much weight on words and glances
            I, I put too much weight on situations
I, I put too much on myself
Thinking "I don't deserve what I've earned", but yeah”

Maybe sometimes we put too much on everything too right? and that made us so frustrated ? But again, it’s okay to feel like that. Just take a deep breath and saying “it’s gonna be fine. I’m gonna be okay.”


5.      Mabel – OK (Anxiety Anthem)




This song has an EDM feelin’ and it will shake your sad soul. From this song, Mabel tells us it’s ok to have some bad day because tomorrow is another day. She tells us too that “It’s not easy. But you should know that it gets easier.”

“'Cause it's okay not to be okay
It's okay if you feel the pain
            Don't gotta wipe your tears away
            Tomorrow's another day
It's okay not to be okay
It's fine, you're allowed to break
            As long as you know, as long as you know
            Everything's gonna be okay”


6.      Orla Gartland – Overthinking




Guess you just knew her name ?
Then you should try to do some research on her music. Because it’ll worth it!
Again this song tells us about someone who frustating because of overthinking. Sometimes I have to think that “why I’m overthinking?” even I overthinking my overthinking, did you get it ?

 “And I think my brain is breakin'
And it's just myself I've been blamin'
            It's frustratin'
I just wanna know why
And I know no good can come of it
I wish that I could just be done with it
            But I'm sinkin'
I just wanna know why I'm overthinkin'”


So, these all six songs that what’s on my head (lately). I know and I’m sorry for all these sad songs, but I hope you enjoy it! And if you want to listen these kind of music, I made a playlist called “anxiety.” Just click here !

Thank you for read and visit my blog. Share your “what’s on my head” version on the comment section or you can DM me some recommended songs to my instagram @syafirapotter . See you on my next article!!!

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In poem

Poem #5



Hello! Long time not posted anything on my blog. I have been busy in the last couple months, but I have wrote some poems, but today I'm gonna post one of them. So in this poem, pictured how she dissapointed her as you can see from :

"Tears drop on your pillow 
Nobody know that you are mellow, and low."

then she started to hear those sounds (dark thoughts) , also these scars (dark experiences) makes her scared. Honestly, I don't know why I wrote this poem. I just wrote what I felt that day or I saw.

Oh ya make sure when you read this poem also listen to this song 
cry baby by Melanie Martinez click this for the song 
(oh you should read the lyrics too)

So here the full poem, hope you enjoy it ! 
Lots of Love Syafira.


Dumb


Tears drop on your pillow.
Nobody know that you are mellow, and low.
In the middle of night where everyone 
Are sleeping on their comfortable pillow.

You start to hear those sounds,
Annoy you and these scars
Make you feel so scared.
I’m wearing red,
And I’m too care.
For what everyone just says.

The situations just give me pressure.
Am I Depressed ?
Because I can’t even describe.


Cried in the night,
Smile in the noon.
Blue in the noon,
Dark in the night.

All I want is
just to be numb.
Or I even dumb ?
Too care for what everyone just say.

— dumb by spa.

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poems #4

Instagram: Syafirapotter

Hello!

Long time not post any poems yet.
So today I want to share my new poem to all of you.
For the first time I've made a poem about real person in my life. He is my best friend, we met at MUN event in Universitas Indonesia. Actually on that event we didn't talk or say hello to each other but after the event we finally talk about lot of things, and yep we talked much about music.
So check it out of my poem !

The Story of The Woman and Her Castle
.
This is a story about the woman who got trapped inside her castle.
Everyday she just looking through the window, looking for someone to come and save her
from this flatness life.
She want to escape from her castle but sheʼs still believes that someone will come to save
her.
.
But someday, her castle was attacked.
Her castle is on fire, a tattered gown, and her kingdom of ash.
So she walks alone, and never look back.
.
But when she wants to escape her castle,
She still believes that someone will come to save her.
So she waiting, waiting and waiting.
.
The fire getting bigger and bigger.
Sheʼs suffocating can not breathe,
And then she saw a bright light.
She walked till the end of the tunnel.
.
At the of the tunnel, she met with this man.
A man called him self as The Fighter.
He was in his own war,
And he really loves doing it.
He said ”Iʼm searching for Glory..”
.
For the first time The Woman feels so connected with The Fighter.
They shared a lot things.
Their dream, their problems, sometimes they shared their own poems too.
.
Sometimes he got some flashes from his lives.
He remember like this is kinda of deja vu.
So He ask her “Who are you?”
The Woman smiles beautifully and telling him
“Iʼm the woman who trapped inside my own castle. And waiting someone to save me, but
here I am.”


spa.


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Music Review 1.0 : GLOOMY SONGS




It’s been a long time since the last article about Model United Nations.
So, today I just want to share with you about my favorite gloomy song. Here they are :

1.  Lana del Rey – Freak




From this song you can feel the song, and I really love the tone from this song.

2.  Billie Eilish – Bellyache




Bellyache is TOTALLY PSYCHO AND PERFECTLY POP!
“'Bellyache' is about the concept of guilt, when you do things in the moment because you feel so strongly about them. In the end you're left with the decision you made. That line—"I thought that I'd feel better, but now I gotta bellyache"—is about how you kinda know that you're the worst but you don't care. It's about a psychopath who regrets being a psychopath but doesn't really care.” Said Billie.

3. Melanie Martinez – Cry Baby



Melanie tried to share with us about this feeling “being cry baby”. If you have feeling so lonely and sometimes you cried even don’t know why, well maybe you should listen this one.

4. Logic - 1800-273-8255



This song probably the most gloomy song I’ve ever heard before!
Logic tried to tell us how important your lives for.

“ I've been on the low
I been taking my time
I feel like I'm out of my mind
It feel like my life ain't mine
I don't wanna be alive
I just wanna die today “

     5. Ellie Goulding – Vincent



Maybe you have already listened this song. Yes, this song is telling us about Vincent van Gogh.

“Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity

                                    How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now “



Listen My Playlist xx

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