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đ How to Dispel the âDark Cloudâ
âA typical day is full of anxiety and boredom,â writes MihĂĄly CsĂkszentmihĂĄlyi, who is âthe brains behind positive psychology,â according to Seligman. He credits CsĂkszentmihĂĄlyi with adding the concept of âflowâ to the movementâs ideas.6 âFlow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.â âFlowâ is described by C
... See moreChris Hedges ⢠Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Maybe your feeling is a majestic but terrifying mountain, a vast and lonely ocean, a sandstorm over a desolate desert, or a big white cloud over the cliffs of a tiny beach town. Itâs natural to experience some level of distress when faced with disruption. The best course of action is to process the emotion with curiosity and self-compassion so you
... See moreAnne-Laure Le Cunff ⢠Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
This should feel not like a punishing observation, but more like relief from the pressures of 200 years of scientifically mandated faith in the possibility of progress. There can wisely be no âsolutionsâ, no self-help, of a kind that removes problems altogether. What we can aim for, at best, is consolation â a word tellingly lacking in glamour. To
... See moreAlain De Botton ⢠The School of Life: An Emotional Education
So many of the volunteers I spoke to, whether among the dying, the addicted, or the depressed, described feeling mentally âstuck,â captured in ruminative loops they felt powerless to break. They talked about âprisons of the self,â spirals of obsessive introspection that wall them off from other people, nature, their earlier selves, and the present
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