Having a Hyperactive Brain

Inktober 52 a way to relax away from screens.

Hello!

I’m doing it again!
I’m thinking about multiple ideas to do at once.
Youtube videos, this newsletter, podcast and recent idea, world building.

I need to stop doing this to myself! Giving me too much stuff to do. Stuff that I cant keep track on because it’s too much.
Before it was to be on every social media platform.

Now it’s creation stuff I do wanna share with the world. But it’s too much.
So what should I do? Well to take it slow! I don’t need to do all these stuff al at once!
Videos for YouTube will keep coming and sometimes when I don’t have idea for a good video a Video Podcast will show up instead.

Newsletter I will try to post each week. If nothing very extreme happens.
And world building is something I will do when Ideas comes. Not to force myself. If I do that, people will notice it, for sure.

Slow down Jezz, slow down! You can do this!

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❄️Hyperactive Brain

Okey hear me out.

When you hear about ADHD you think about people that cannot sit still for long periods of time.
But what if I told you not all that is completely true.

Sure some can be very hyperactive by not sitting still. But I do have ADHD but I can control that by playing with a pencil, checking my phone, bounce my leg up and down.
If you have ADHD our brains also work different compare to people without. We can think about multiple things at once. And not really focus into one.

I recently learned that having a hyperatcive body is not the only thing to qualify as a ADHD. But also that our brains works overtime 24/7.

Our brains are hyperactive!
So Just because a person can sit silent in a corner doesn’t mean they can’t have ADHD.

Don’t get me wrong. I still get those very annoying restlessness and I have no idea what I want to do when those hit.
But my brain works over-time every second of the day. And that is even worse in my opinion than moving my body.

I rather spend a whole day skiing and get real tired so I fall as sleep at night.
Rather than having my brain go all over the place and feel tired but not be tired. Brain is tired, not the body.

When my body gets tired, my brain does the same. It’s just go hand in hand somehow. But other way around. Not at all!
So do I have something against this?

I kind of do!

♦️Art: By just start drawing my brain just become black. Nothing entering it. I just full focus on the art in front of me. It’s a stress relief on high level.

♦️Walks: When I’m out on my walk with my dog. My brain go in to some kind of low mode. I can still get ideas of things to write, draw or even to do. Like I need more milk. But other than that, nothing is in my head. I just enjoying what’s around me. And of course making sure my dog aint eating something stupid.

♦️Mountain Biking: Its been a while since I did this. Don’t have my bike where I live. But when I did it. My head was also black. Just focus on what was ahead of me. It was pretty nice. Not even a new idea comes up.

♦️Driving: At the end of 2017 I took my diving license. But I rarely drive. Don’t have a car. But when I do drive, my head gets blank. Maybe little to blank sometimes. It kind feels like my head enter some kind of state. I’m aware of my surroundings, but at the same time it feels I don’t. It’s very complicated. But I liking this state.
This state can also happen if I’m in the passenger seat.

♦️Meditation: Few years ago I started to meditate. I had nothing to loose. And I’m still doing it today. Not everyday like I want to. But often. It took around 2months until I started to notice the change. That I become calm. Nothing in head. Sure head can still have its ideas, but with meditation you just shrug it off and start focus on your breathing. Meditation has also helped me against big panic attacks.

A hyper active brain is both good and bad. We just need to find our way to handle it.

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❄️My Art Journey

Two weeks of HIIT group training has passed.
I thought I did not go all out on day one. But I kind of did. Did get extreme nosebleed that evening.

The next time I did do it better.
But do you know the best thing about it all? I did not feel any restlessness those days I had training! And that is just AMAZING!

Those restlessness always hit at the late evenings. And because its late its pretty hard to do anything about it.
So this is great improvements! Now I just have to keep track on the anxiety and depression stuff too. 😁

But because of this and daily activities that I recently started. My energy is very low. So low that I cant even draw. And I also have videos to make.
So I have started to plan my days after what I’m doing. Maybe it’s a right step in the right direction. 😊

But I started to do the Inktober 52. To draw based of the prompt words each week. Liking this way better than every day.

Splash and Fish.

I was able to create a new illustration. Something I have not done in a while.

The sketch for the vector shark was done in Procreate. Wanted to work on it on Designer for the iPad. But it kept crashing. So moved it to the desktop version. Kind of liked this simple variation of vector art. To not over do it the same way I do other illustrations.

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❄️Horizon Zero Dawn

I bought this book at Comic Con Stockholm few years back. Or the same year as the game came out.

The thing is, this book made me buy the game!
Full of beautiful artworks. Even I got surprised to see Loish character Design of Aloy.

The environment and machines are on another level too.
IF you played the game you know how beautiful it can be, but the art book makes it even more beautiful.

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