Health - Mental
Maintenance and healing
Health - Mental
harm happens when choice is absent, but also harm is bound to happen. How can we soften our edges around harm by encouraging autonomy and dismantling hierarchy? This can be done through sharing information, listening, and identifying underlying needs, as well as training our nervous systems to get intimate with receiving feedback.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
In the camps, survivors:
• Imagined teaching others about their experience
• Found beauty in small moments
• Helped fellow prisoners
"Everything can be taken except one freedom:
To choose one's attitude in any circumstance." https://t.co/mxxSkvzXEr
"The Process:
Decide what you want to achieve.
Try different ways of achieving it until you find one that works for you.
Do more of what works. Do less of what doesn’t.
Don’t stop doing it until it stops working.
Repeat.
It is both this simple and this hard."
James Clear
The most effective way to change your habits is to focus not on what you want to achieve, but on who you wish to become. Your identity emerges out of your habits. Every action is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your iden
... See moreJames Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
It’s the days when you have to do things that scare you, when you have to take risks, when you have to push against challenge and difficulty—those are the days that make you stronger, faster, and better overall. In strength and conditioning circles, this is known as the Overload Principle.
Ben Bergeron • Chasing Excellence
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- You feel guilty when you rest.
- Your self-esteem is largely based on good performance in your career.
- Productivity is more important than health.
- The belief that hard work = happiness.
- You feel lazy even when you are in pain, experiencing trauma or adversity.
- You use busyness as a means of avoiding needs
