r/KeanuBeingAwesome • u/Sno0pyBo0 Daisy • Aug 30 '24
Here’s your mental health check in with Keanu Reeves 🧠❤️🩹
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u/InternalReveal1546 Aug 30 '24
I think the most important thing he mentioned is being able to just sit with one's emotions and just feel them.
Ask yourself "what am I feeling?" - I'm feeling this
"Where am I feeling it?" - in my chest, my stomach and my eyes
"What does it feel like?" - it feels like this
"Where am I feeling it?" - here
"What am I feeling?"
- this
And so on..
Eventually the emotion fades out on its own and more often than not you get a new perspective, a new insight or just a different frame of mind or mood altogether.
Most people want to avoid feeling.
Feeling without giving it meaning or storyline and just letting it play out can change everything and within a few minutes
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u/hellopie7 Aug 30 '24
I appreciate the fleshing out of that and the almost step by step process.
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u/3asytarg3t Aug 30 '24
Yeah, and the casually accurate way he described it told you this is something he actually does.
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u/RavenStormblessed Aug 30 '24
Yeah, I used to push feelings and thoughts I didn't like until my therapist asked me if they ever went away. Well, no, they don't. Then he told me to give them space, feel them, acknowledge them, think about them and accept them, yeah it is not so much fun, but then, you can actually start thinking better about it, sometimes rationalize it and they don't insist in coming back all the time, sometimes you can figure out how to solve if it can be solved or how you want to face it.
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u/enjoi_uk Aug 30 '24
I’ve saved this and I’m going to try it the next time I’m feeling suicidal or having a full blown panic attack. Thank you.
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u/Pjoernrachzarck Aug 30 '24
It’s insane what journaling can do.
You think you know exactly what’s going on, but it’s only in the process of putting it into words that you realize how vague and paradoxical it all is. And then it’s on the page and you can often just leave it there.
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u/RakasRick Sep 25 '24
That's observing your emotions, I read something related in Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now"
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u/InternalReveal1546 Sep 25 '24
Yeah it totally is. The power of now is an excellent tool.
Even just defining to yourself the belief you'd have to hold to feel a particular emotion is incredibly powerful
I just ask myself "what would I have to believe is true about myself in order to feel this emotion?" And answer it to myself as honestly as I can.
Practically 100% of the time by just defining it to myself, i realise the emotion is stemming from an old, outdated belief that's no longer true and probably never even was true.
Just the act of bringing it to my conscious awareness is enough for it to automatically be redefined and updated so I don't have to feel the same old tired emotion anymore
There's probably thousands of different tools out there and they all seem to work really well. So I guess just pick the one that you like the most for you
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u/ManchesterGorilla1 Nov 22 '24
Thank you for taking the time out to type this out. I hope you know it'll probably help someone today. A good dead done
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u/Swimming_Ring_9060 Aug 30 '24
It was a glass of water when it started out. He just turned it into wine.
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u/thatcorneliastreet Aug 30 '24
Is this a new one? So happy Michael interviewed him. It’s like Lex and Neo are hanging out and I can’t believe I needed it so much.
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u/cabosmith Aug 30 '24
He strikes me as a down to Earth, practical, very considerate, well-balanced guy. His legend is cemented in Hollywood lore.
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u/flargenhargen Aug 30 '24
just think of what the world would be like if everyone had the personality of Keanu.
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u/06EXTN Aug 30 '24
I’ve solved some of my greatest personal dilemmas by staring at either a campfire or open water. Fire is preferred. Back when I drank I would have just enough bourbon to enter what I dubbed “caveman mode”. I’d be awake and aware as to be safe, but absolutely everything else was turned off. I was just a man sitting there staring into fire. It’s glorious.
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u/dx80x Aug 30 '24
I'm the same when I'm sat at the beach with the tide coming in. I don't get my phone out (and I'm on Reddit a lot more than I should be) and I just sit there for a few hours watching and listening to the waves crashing. That's the only real time I'm at peace with myself and give myself time to properly think about things. Otherwise, I'm just drinking myself stupid until I can manage to go to sleep
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u/Responsible_Run_8151 Aug 30 '24
Whatever he’s doing its obviously working especially with all the shit he’s been through in his life. Love him!
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u/ProgressiveRox Aug 30 '24
What I love about this interview was that it was clearly about Dogstar the band not Keanu the megastar. Michael (as a pro-am musician himself) did a good job of interviewing the whole band and relating to them as middle aged guys with day jobs who enjoy touring every now and then.
I've never seen a Keanu solo interview that was long form like this and it seemed clear he was stepping out of his comfort zone for his buddies.
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u/Fornicate_Yo_Mama Aug 30 '24
This man. This is a truly fully developed human being. I feel so much love and respect for him. I’ll never know him personally but, having lost my family, I choose him as the “head of household” of my chosen family.
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u/omegadirectory Aug 30 '24
He seems much more at ease here than whenever I see him being interviewed on a late night talk show.
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u/LillyRemus42 Aug 30 '24
He is honestly a world treasure... we are lucky to live in the same time period.
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u/confuseum Aug 30 '24
Right after H.S. I had taken a weekend off from work and friends and just stared out my window at leaves fluttering in the wind. It gave me years of insight and mental baggage cleared.
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u/Quirkylynx Aug 31 '24
He’s so emotionally intelligent and being able to think about why you’re upset or frustrated is very self aware. Love him
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u/kevraul Sep 01 '24
I go on a motorbike ride just like him to reflect. But man he looks good. Even his beard looks good. It's magnificent. And yes, while on my bike, i do reflect on how good he or his beard looks.
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u/Infamous_Network6641 Aug 30 '24
Why don’t Americans elect Keanu for president, he seems like the last stable person left on the planet.
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u/Sno0pyBo0 Daisy Aug 30 '24
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u/Infamous_Network6641 Aug 31 '24
If he ran for prime minister of Australia I’d vote for him. I don’t care if he’s Canadian or Martian.
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u/notCRAZYenough Aug 30 '24
That thankfully means he’s not to blame for the mess over in the US either
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u/Sno0pyBo0 Daisy Aug 30 '24
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