{"id":5582,"date":"2026-10-10T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/?p=5582"},"modified":"2026-10-10T13:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:34:56","slug":"world-mental-health-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/world-mental-health-day","title":{"rendered":"World Mental Health Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/zen_butterfly_30605_h264_1920.mp4\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5584\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">zen_butterfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, October 10, is World Mental Health Day&nbsp;which was first established in 1992.[I only know that because I had to look it up.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I myself, had been a mental health professional for many years having been previously licensed in two jurisdictions. I didn&#8217;t know we had a World Mental Health Day until today and I only knew it because my watch told me &#8211; and it told me I can get an award if I meditate for 10 minutes today. I know I could turn those alerts off, but I find them fun &#8211; but will I meditate for 10 minutes? Probably not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>btw &#8211; I call my watch my Dick Tracy watch &#8211; having once had a toy version &#8211; now they are real<\/em>!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have already done other exercises and will probably do more general exercising then maybe I&#8217;ll sit quietly for a period of time, but not &#8220;officially&#8221; meditating. I have my own version of what is meditation. It doesn&#8217;t always meet the definitions that other people use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m feeling good today because I more or less finished book number one. It needs some tweaking and I need to write up some descriptions and all of that for Amazon but by tomorrow it <strong>will<\/strong> be up there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I made myself a fancy espresso to celebrate. We have a new espresso maker and I&#8217;m still learning how to make it taste like if I went to a coffee shop and bought one &#8211;  but I&#8217;m not there yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been fiddling with covers for the book and below is maybe what the cover will be. I&#8217;m not fully decided on this yet. It needs to sit in my head for a bit. 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Finishing this book makes me feel really good because it&#8217;s been a long time since I have written and published a book. 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