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Feeling emotions in the body: A useful mindfulness technique that can help you tolerate difficult emotions is to feel the emotion as a physical sensation in your body. All emotions have a mental and physical component. The emotion of fear, for example, may be driven by the thought “I’m way behind and I’ll lose my job,” but also express itself physi... See more

Seasons of Loneliness

Periods of loneliness are a natural byproduct of transformation.

When you start growing, changing, and developing faster than your environment, you will stop fitting into that environment.

The people you felt aligned with start to feel distant.

It's almost as if you start speaking an entirely different language. You no longer hav... See more

Are you holding onto something that you no longer need?

Here's a story that I love:

A man on a long journey comes to a wide, rushing river blocking his path. With no way around it and no bridge in sight, he chops down a tree and uses the wood to build a small boat. The boat is remarkably sturdy, and the man is able to navigate across the river safel... See more

Soften–soothe–allow: A compassion-based process we call soften–soothe–allow can help you learn to make space for difficult emotions and even befriend them. While experiencing an emotion as a physical sensation, you orient toward it with softness and tenderness, relaxing the constriction in the body. You then soothe, comfort, and support yourself be... See more

"You'll watch an entire Netflix series even when the first episodes are slow because someone told you "it gets better" - But what if you looked at your goals like that and watched your life get better instead?

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―@staystrongmotivated

When we use a soft front and strong back to stay with the discomfort of difficult emotions, they tend to arise, do their little dance, then move on. We don’t have to be knocked down by them. We don’t have to shut down in a zombie-like state of burnout to avoid feeling them. By changing the way we relate to difficult emotions, we can get through alm... See more

"Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success." - Eckhart Tolle

If you always make your success conditional on some future achievement, you will never feel successful.

Joan Halifax, a Buddhist meditation teacher and writer, says that when fear is powering our reactions, we typically adopt a hard front (the critical cynic) to hide a weak back (lack of confidence that we can survive). She proposes that we turn this around when things get difficult, aiming instead to cultivate a strong back but a soft front. Having ... See more