a lot of us absolutely loved and still love Linkin Park because they have these
deep lyrics that a lot of us can connect to and in this video when we break down
Chester Bennington lyrics for the song heavy I want to try something just a
little bit different what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired
soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new
to my channel my channel is for anybody who is looking to improve their mental
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ring that notification bell so yeah I've been on a Lincoln Park kick lately and
just listening and listening like every now and then I just go to like Linkin
Park's greatest hits on Spotify and just start listening like crazy and I always
get the song heavy stuck in my head like for some reason it's one of the most
relatable songs for me so that's one of the reasons why I want to start out with
this breakdown doing this I know a lot of you have asked me to do some lyrical
breakdowns on it so anyways a couple things the first one is I'm hoping like
heck that genius doesn't take this video I I spent like two hours the other night
trying to figure out a way to like upload like the music video and use a
little clips without it getting taken down and every single test failed it got
taken down like nope nobody Kawachi so hopefully hopefully this works if it
didn't work you're not watching this but anyways so what I want to do with this
video I want to break down these layers I want to talk about how I can relate to
them and throughout the video I want you to ask yourself how you can personally
relate to these write these lyrics but something I mentioned in a previous
video about Billy Eilish like I want to talk about solutions like so many of us
can relate to these lyrics a bit about being in that dark place but like what's
the solution what's the solution so you know I am NOT a licensed therapist but
I'm somebody who can relate to that dark place that that pain that internal
struggle that chester was in and I'm somebody who is actively working on my
mental health and I'm miles away from where I used to be in that dark place so
what I want to do with this video is offer some solutions as we break down
these Lehrer but if you're somebody who's struggling
like feel free to try some of these suggestions if you would like if you're
really struggling make sure you reach out and ask for help all right
talk to your doctor talk to a therapist talk to anybody I usually have some
resources down below in the description so how's your day going whatever and he
goes he's all fine and then a few minutes later he's like you know what
I'm not fine let me tell you what's going on in my life and he's just like
then it was like Brad would be like dude yeah you know like this is what I'm
dealing with them that was the type of conversation that started off most of
these sessions I think we all need that I think we all absolutely need that like
so many of us I think about just going to the gas station grocery store
wherever it is sometimes like hey how's your day going you're like oh I'm good
right and you're like dying inside right like this is something that so many of
us do out of automation now I'm not saying like go to your local like
grocery store like spill your guts to the cashier I'm not saying that but in
my opinion we need somebody at least one person in our life where we can tell
them how we're really doing you know what I mean like that's it's super
important something somebody told me a long time ago when I first started on my
mental health journey journey of getting out of that dark place was you don't got
to dance with everybody but you got to dance with somebody I don't like my mind
right now stacking up problems that are so
unnecessary wish that I could slow things down I want to let go but
discomfort in the panic I can absolutely relate to this like Chester talks about
like kind of these fat traps that we'd get into right like this this is
something that so many of us struggle with and something that I work on with
my therapist is recognizing these cognitive distortions right recognizing
what my brain is doing the other thing that really helps me out a lot is
meditation right when I can sit back and just meditate and meditation is about
it's not about stopping thoughts it's about watching your thoughts right so I
can watch my thoughts just kind of go by like these clouds in the sky right and
then I say okay that one that one is a bad thought right that one is maybe a
knowledge thought whether it's like you know some
negative thinking talking bad about myself
maybe it's like talking negatively and pessimistic about the future or whatever
it is meditation helps me acknowledge that and then I can start getting into
the solution so when he talks about there's comfort in the panic that's
something so many of us can relate to what I've realized like just through my
own mental health journey as well as working with other people at the
treatment center I was working out and just talking to others is like that
comfort in the panic that something is very real so like for example um I was
diagnosed with depression a generalized anxiety disorder and some other stuff
and and like I remember when my life started getting better especially when I
got clean and sober over six years ago like I remember when everything would be
fine my brain would start losing it Ryan
start freaking out and I'm like what the heck is happening like nothing is going
on and the reason why from my experiences is that there's comfort in
that panic like I find this to be very common with children who grew up in a
toxic household right it's what we're used to that's one of the reasons why a
lot of us get into toxic relationships when we get older because there's
comfort in that right and what's helped me out is a lot of self-love self
compassion and realizing like this is not okay like this is not the type of
situation that I want to be in and it takes time for me it took time for for
that like my new comfort level is not being in a state of panic and it Drive
myself crazy thinking everything's about me yeah so crazy cuz I can't escape the
gravity one of my favorite lines one of my favorite lines is right there and
like where he talks about like and I Drive myself crazy thinking everything's
about me like oh my god like this was such a liberating thing for me and it's
something I'm not gonna lie something I still struggle with every single day but
we think everything is about this like about us and if you check them below
there's a full there's a full link to the genius
video that I'm using clips from but Chester talks about how like a lot of
our own problems are based on our ego right like for example for example have
you ever been out in public and you hear people like laughing and you think it's
about you here's another example I like to use like have you ever been driving
in like stuck in traffic and there's dozens of cars around dozens and dozens
of cars around somebody honks their horn you're right we think they're honking at
us when like there's a good chance that they're honking at somebody else and we
just happen to hear it we constantly think everything's about us something
that I find even even more helpful that I realize is when somebody lashes out on
me I think it's about me but like I have to realize like how many how many people
have like a rough start to the morning right maybe they got into an argument
with a significant other or a family member or whatever and then later on I
encounter them and they lash out at me but it's not about me it's about that
situation right like have you ever had a rough day at work and lashed out at the
people you live with whether it's a significant other a child or like maybe
the parents called you you freaked out on them
it wasn't about them it was about the other thing so something that that helps
me is realizing not everything is about me and as a youtuber who gets a bunch of
hate comments I get some nice comments but a bunch of hate comments I I have to
look at that and say you know what maybe this person struggling maybe the person
on the other side is going through a difficult time
now that doesn't justify their behavior towards you
but it helps me not take things so personally I can't carry I keep dragging
around what's bringing me down for just that goal I be set free so right there
like I keep dragging around was bringing me down and what if I would just let go
I'd be set free like we know like so many of us like we know we know what the
issue is we know what we need to do so there's something
heard a long time ago which is common sense verse comment-action right like
it's common sense for a lot of us to do the things that are good for our mental
health whether it's therapy or meditation or having a support group or
whatever it is we know we know and if we would just let go and and quit trying to
do things our way we'd be set free right like how long how long do we sit in our
own misery before we get help like in my active addiction i sat in that forever
forever knowing that it was destroying my life and when I got clean and sober
and my depression and anxiety like I knew I knew what I had to do I knew I
had to reach out to other people I knew I had talked to other people I knew
there were things that I had to do but I didn't want to and part of it goes back
to there being comfort in the panic some people what I realized is we latch our
our mental state or negative mental state whether we're sad or lonely or
whatever like we we turn that into a part of who we are and we're afraid to
get better because without this thing who are we
you see what I mean and I think that holds a lot of us back from getting
better he says you know I know I'm not the center of the universe but you keep
spinning around me just the same what Chester talks about in that genius
video is like co-dependent relationships right like it's it's very difficult
because a lot of mental health issues from my experience or ego-driven right
and we think everything's about us but when you have people in your life who
are enabling you or codependent like it feeds into that and codependents do this
all the time like for those in addiction but not even addiction but like with
other other mental health struggles like people will be there all the time and
they they they can keep us in a state of being sick right and then that feeds
into our own sense of self-importance but anyways like I know a lot of us miss
Chester just like watching that interview with
like right but I want to do more lyrical breakdowns all Linkin Park and again I
want you to let me know down in the comments below like what you can relate
to how you can relate if you have solutions that you have found helpful
for any of the things that we discuss let everybody know down in the comments
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