Health - Mental
Maintenance and healing
Health - Mental
"Do one thing every day that scares you." – Eleanor Roosevelt
In one pattern, called “avoidant attachment,” the infants look like nothing really bothers them—they don’t cry when their mother goes away and they ignore her when she comes back. However, this does not mean that they are unaffected. In fact, their chronically increased heart rates show that they are in a constant state of hyperarousal.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Notice 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
Leigh Marz • Golden
The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We... See more
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N.
Therapists use three sources of information when working with patients: What the patients say, what they do, and how we feel while we’re sitting with them.
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
The ego likes big, dramatic actions that seem as if they’ll magically change the future. This gives the ego a sense of power. Real discipline is quite the opposite. It’s made up of an endless number of small steps, each of which can seem meaningless on its own. The ego has to humble itself to keep going on a productive course.
Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living
We often fear that letting go means losing something essential: identity, stability, connection, status.
But what we often gain instead is space.
Room to breathe. Room to grieve. Room to grow.
The truth is, you can’t receive what’s next if your hands are full of what’s no longer yours to carry.
Whether it’s a belief, a plan, or a person — some things
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