Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
What has been helping:
- Regular sessions with my wife and a therapist who is a trained zen guy - for giving a bit of guidance to both of us, because she can understand what my experience up to a certain degree.
- Books and online resources on „Spiritual Crisis“ that focus on easing into the process and giving a positive outlook (please no doom
Waking Up with Sam Harris - A New Operating System for Your Mind
non-dual awareness
In essence, knowledge gained through the senses and perception is not knowledge at all, but opinion. It is only through philosophical reasoning that one is able to pursue knowledge.
Paul Kleinman • Philosophy 101
To try
I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out different containers. A website is a container.
The Forbidden Zone
Making Peace with Food: Embracing the Permission Paradox
Summary:
Making peace with food involves understanding that all foods fit, including Oreos.
The fear of never being able to stop eating when given permission to eat anything is often a result of past deprivation. Embracing the permission paradox allows individuals to truly evaluate their desire
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One of the things I’ve found just for kind of managingmyself is that if I try to just go straight into the day, almost every morning when I wake up and read through my emails and get the news, it’s almost like getting punched with sort of like a ton of new context. And it’s like, “Okay, I need to internalize this.” So I found that doing... See more