Health - Mental
Maintenance and healing
Health - Mental
Maintenance and healing
... See more“The perfectionist is never satisfied. The perfectionist never says, ‘This is pretty good. I think I’ll just keep going.’ To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist calls this humility. In reality, it is egotism. It is pride that makes us want to write a perfect script, paint a perfect painting, perform a perfect
The Loudest Alarm is Probably False
A curious thing I've noticed: among the friends whose inner monologues I get to hear, the most self-sacrificing ones are frequently worried they are being too selfish, the loudest ones are constantly afraid they are not being heard, the most introverted ones are regularly terrified that they're claiming more than
... See moreNotice noise. Tune in to silence. There are three basic steps to the process: Pay attention to the diverse forms of auditory, informational, and internal interference that arise in your life. Study how to navigate them. Perceive the small pockets of peace that live amidst all the sounds and stimuli. Seek these spaces. Savor them. Go as
But the main obstacle is always, always that Sensitive Intuitive writers have felt so different from other people, so alien, for all of their lives that they can’t shake the feeling that they’re weird. That something is wrong with them. This feeling eats away at the self-esteem and causes insidious damage to the creative spirit. That’s when we get
... See moreBeing in a one-sided relationship means we don’t have to be truly vulnerable with anyone, and we don’t run the risk of being laughed at or misunderstood. We can securely play our role of constant listener, the person who always understands and never judges, and we know that the other person will almost always approve of us, as long as we don’t
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