Mindfulness & Wisdom
We pay the high price of our own emotional freedom when we allow ourselves to be stranded by others’ temperaments and actions.
Imi Lo • Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity: How to manage intense emotions as a highly sensitive person - learn more about yourself with this life-changing self help book (Teach Yourself)
Gut punch
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers,—under all thes
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Yowza
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. - R.W. Emerson
nails it.
The world around you is built by your thoughts. If you want the world around you to change, change the way you think about the world around you.
Yowza.
Screens are attention, and thus metabolic energy and brain function vampires!
Do NOT raise your kid with tech. Do NOT look at your phone all day. Do raise your child in an attentive, prosocial environment. Do make them play outside. Do engage with people directly and actively as much as possible. Do. One. Thing. At. A. Time.
As you remember these experiences, notice how you feel on a visceral level. A cognitive recounting will not suffice, unless it is connected strongly to a bodily feeling, because your memories were stored in your body on a cellular level. The challenge is to find the accurate sense of feeling but not necessarily a storyline. Truly grieving involves
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Imi lo FTW
From Letters to the Intense Minds by Imi Lo
This today. As life is pushing me towards a change… something I might have asked for but also maybe only half consciously.
Or I want it to be exactly the way I want it. I wanted EVERYTHING. To give up nothing but to have everything I wanted.
How can I be so utterly enraptured, so intoxicatingly optimistic ab