 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 where we break down Chester Bennington's 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 and emotional well-being so if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So yeah I've been on a Linkin 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 wanted 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 down I I spent like two hours the other night trying to figure out a way to like upload like the music video and use little clips without it getting taken down and every single test failed it just got taken down like nope nobody can watch this 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 lyrics 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 right these lyrics but something I mentioned in a previous video about Billie Eilish like I want to talk about solutions like so many of us can relate to these lyrics about 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 lyrics 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 just like then it was like probably like dude yeah you know like this is what I'm dealing with and 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 somebody's 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 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 there's comfort in the panic I can absolutely relate to this like Chester talks about like kind of these thought traps that we 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 can say okay that one that one is a bad thought right that one is maybe a not a true 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's something that's very real so like for example 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 right it would 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 I drive myself crazy thinking everything's about me yeah 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 down 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 and like stuck in traffic and there's dozens of cars around dozens and dozens of cars around somebody honks their horn you're like what the heck 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 your parents called you and 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 personal so right there like I keep dragging around what's 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 I heard a long time ago which is common sense versus common 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 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 act of 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 how to talk 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've realized is we latch our our mental state our negative mental state whether we're sad or lonely or whatever like 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 I know I'm not the center of the universe but you keep spinning around me just the same when 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 codependent relationships right like it's it's very difficult because a lot of mental health issues from my experience are 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 codependence 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 him it's like right but I want to do more lyrical breakdowns all link in 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 discussed let everybody know down in the comments below all right but if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and if it's huge huge thank you to everybody support the channel over on patreon you are all amazing and if you would like to become a patron you can click the top right there all right thanks so much for watching I'll see you next time