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Feeling Tired? Restore Your Energy Without More Sleep, Exercise, Or an Espresso - Emotional Obesity
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Restore Your Energy Without More Sleep, Exercise, Or an Espresso. 8230;conflict will inevitably arise so long as there is a division between ‘what should be’ and ‘what is’, and any conflict is a dissipation of energy. We are always comparing what we are with what we should be. The should-be is a projection of what we think we ought to be. – Krishnamurti. I love this idea – I mean love it. But, sadly, I do. My point is that ‘what is’, is. However, I can take action from ‘what is’. I can make changes f...
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Find the One Thing That Revitalizes Your Life - Emotional Obesity
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Find the One Thing That Revitalizes Your Life. 8220;In the end. These things matter most:. How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? In the 90’s, we used PCs. I was plagued by the blue screen of death – the ultimate computer crash. When I left my company, my gift to myself was a brand new Apple computer. The learning curve was steep, but it was worth it; the dreaded blue screen of death was a thing of the past. What is that phenomenon? Find a Way to Reboot. I feel like the...
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How To Handle Resentment - Emotional Obesity
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How To Handle Resentment. I’m not angry. Sure I sometimes feel the emotion, but I don’t act on it. I’m pretty conflict avoidant. I don’t get involved in deep, emotional moments. No one really cares about my feelings – why say them at all? I’m good. I don’t need to express my feelings. I just move on…. Do you remember a time you hit it off with someone and you felt that spark? It’s easy to let resentment bubble. When you don’t express anger, it can stay with you. While it’s cliche, bottling up your em...
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When Was the Last Time You Felt in Tune with Your Body? - Emotional Obesity
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When Was the Last Time You Felt in Tune with Your Body? My coach suggested that I try a dance class as a starting point. I was shocked that after a sweaty, heart-pounding hour of dance, I felt more energized than when I started. Normally, I’d end my work day feeling depleted and exhausted. Dancing completely reinvigorated me physically and helped me press the reset button on my day. Lessons from the Trenches. 1 Don’t Settle. Find an activity (dance, yoga, kick boxing, etc.) that completely ignites you.
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How To Conquer Fear: An Emotional Workout - Emotional Obesity
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How To Conquer Fear: An Emotional Workout. For many years, I’ve been afraid. What’s surprising about being in fear is just how complicated it can be and just how complicated it can feel. Before I enrolled in Chicago’s premier yoga studio, Yogaview, for teacher training, it both attracted and repelled me. I felt both a sense of my own ambitions. As well as a wall of resistance rising within me, and it was hard to ignore. The more I cared, the more resistance fired up. If you feel heavy, then dread has set...
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The Only Thing You Need To Know To Experience Pure Joy - Emotional Obesity
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The Only Thing You Need To Know To Experience Pure Joy. How many times have you said, I know myself? I love the color seafoam. I love the smell of the seasons changing. I am not fond of endless sale racks in department stores. How do I know these things about myself? Because every encounter in the past has led me to believe that every encounter in the future will the same. I am reading Krishnamurti. This week, again. If you haven’t read him yet, he is amazing. Here are his thoughts on the subject:. If I ...
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The New Science on Feeling Happier and More Successful - Emotional Obesity
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The New Science on Feeling Happier and More Successful. I love it when modern science overlaps with ancient philosophy. Recently, Positive Psychologists found evidence for the ideas that philosophers have known to be true for thousands of years. When people don’t believe there is a way up, they have virtually no choice but to stay as down as they are. 8211; Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage. When we fail, or when life delivers us a shock, we can become so hopeless that we respond by simply giving up.
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The Vacation of Your Dreams (escape from you). - Emotional Obesity
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The Vacation of Your Dreams (escape from you). 8211; Jason Tessier, flickr. Always say yes to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say yes to life and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you. What does it mean to live in the Now? Will this blog be any good? What will we have for dinner? Now I sit he...
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What it Really Means to Live a Curious Life - Emotional Obesity
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What it Really Means to Live a Curious Life. Ldquo;In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs is the best use of our human lives.”. Pema Chödrön, The Pocket Pema Chodron. To stay open and curious and to train ourselves to dissolve our assumptions seems very straightforward in theory. However, in reality, it’s very hard to stay open and curious, especially if assumptions and beliefs must be dissolved in order to be open and curious. Another...
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves: The Most Common Stories You Tell Yourself - Emotional Obesity
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves: The Most Common Stories You Tell Yourself. The Stories We Tell Ourselves: The Most Common Stories You Tell Yourself. When I started out as a writer, I told myself I sucked. That I didn’t have the expertise to write. That no one would care about what I write. I even told myself that no one will like what I had to say. I should give up, I thought, and actually get a real job. I mean, who, exactly, did I think I was? Scurrying across your head like a car on a highway. And over...
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