
How to Stay Sane (The School of Life)

There are many ways to get in touch with inner needs and discover what they are. One of the simplest ways is to identify negative emotions. These include anger, fear, sadness, and loneliness. A neutral state does not include these feelings, so it’s a safe bet that an alteration has occurred wherein something has either been added or removed to crea
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When your mind is relaxed and open, you are primed to have insights. Insights are just subtle shifts of feeling inside you. With these shifts of feeling, things will look better to you. Things will come easier to you. You are more likely to experience these internal shifts if you pause and reflect frequently. To reflect means to set aside all attem
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- I know what makes people grow more reliably than anything else. It is: taking on a difficult project with some amount of public accountability. This can be large or small: a lecture series, a business, a blog, a house, a child, etc.
- It’s strange, but I know that it’s common to resist positive emotions, as well as negative ones. Ask yours
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
THE TRIPOD OF REFLECTION: OPENNESS, OBSERVATION, OBJECTIVITY