emotional flourishing

One antidote is to allow yourself to imagine what it might feel like to know you'd never fully get on top of your work, never become a really disciplined exerciser or healthy eater, never resolve the personal issue you feel defines your life's troubles. What if I'll always feel behind with my email? What if listening attentively to other people wil

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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

Someone set up your mind in the following hilarious way. All day long you are tortured by vicious thoughts. If you try to make them go away, that, too, becomes an unhelpful kind of self-bludgeoning. However, if you tranquilly accept whatever you’re thinking and feeling, for a period of time, eventually a different, more pleasant state of mind obtai... See more

it really is possible to massively reduce psychological/emotional suffering a.k.a what your interiority feels like all day long it’s not twitter hype, there are many ways to get to it, and it’s worth endlessly talking about so everyone who wants emotional wellbeing encounters it

we’re slow to learn because most learning is about emotions yet most of us are taught to focus on everything but emotion good learners often have great emotional/psychological management the most effective way to learn and make progress is to cultivate beautiful emotions via the process (the act) of the skill you’re learning but somehow most of... See more

"The instructions for how to Do Nothing are very short - just two sentences: let whatever happens, happen. As soon as you're aware of an intention to control your attention, drop that intention." Shinzen Young [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ6cdIaUZCA]

What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness. No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering.

thoughts from today: 1. if you often struggle to do things (take action, complete tasks etc) you may have a lot of unfelt anger in you. feel the anger. express the anger. you may find you have more energy to do things with 2. a great deal of your time can be spent avoiding

ON GROUNDING I think I *get* grounding now, so here goes nothing: First, don't ask me how this works but it is just a FACT that you can shift what you identify with. The car, your phone, your VR character, the character you're playing in a play, in a game, (in life...), etc.… Show more