Brains, Bodies, Psychology and Mental Health

Similarly, people who are being selectively agentic often have a kind of faulty sensory appreciation. Perhaps relationships feel hard for you, they take willpower, so it’s tempting to believe that you’re Actually Trying, that you’ve brought the full weight of your genius to bear on the problem. You might even take some pride in the struggle. Like... See more

Cate Hall • Maybe You’re Not Actually Trying

I used to be so obsessed with consistency. I would beat myself up to mediate every day or do yoga or go running or journal or whatever it was at that time I thought I needed to do. It felt like I was really working hard on getting better. So I thought the struggle would mean that I was doing my best.

But being so fucking hard on myself is one of my main problems. And I wondered why this didn't help?

With the knowledge I now have I realize that all of these things ARE helpful. But the way they are actually useful to me is if I reflect on WHAT I really need in that moment. It helps if I journal when I notice that the thoughts in my head could use a little bit of sorting through them. It helps when I exercise when my body actually wants to move.

Gut Health

Up to 95 percent of serotonin is created in our gut.

Ideas to try to help with gut health

Eat only until your 80% full
Buy more fruit and try to eat it first when you have a craving for something sweet
Protein helps feeling more full. One gram of protein for every pound that you weigh is a good amount.
80/20 rule - use an extra shopping bag to

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He talks about alignment and how all of the goals and habits are not worth their time if you don’t know what you actually want. You can be insanely productive and still feel completely lost. Discipline without direction is just an endless path to nowhere. What am I doing that is pulling me out of integrity/alignment?

When we feel anxiety, our sympathetic nervous system is in action. It energizes the body to be alert. It increases the heart rate, the pace at which we are breathing to oxygenate our muscles and how quickly we are thinking.

The parasympathetic nervous system is the one that calm us down after being in a state of alertness. The quickest way to calm

I think we are all like this. People are not just high-agency or low-agency in a global sense, across their entire lives. Instead, people are selectively agentic.

Let’s say that life is divided up into three theaters: work, relationships with others (all kinds) and relationship to self (physical health, introspection, emotional development, all of... See more

Cate Hall • Maybe You’re Not Actually Trying

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