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Where There's Stress, There's a Story
The Buddhists had a helpful analogy here. Picture the mind like a waterfall, they said: the water is the torrent of thoughts and emotions; mindfulness is the space behind the waterfall. Again, elegant theory—but, easier said than done.
Dan Harris • 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works - A True Story
When Sevens rest in silence, they find the greatest adventures already lie within their own souls. Sevens don’t need to run off to what’s next when they learn to listen to what’s within. Caricatured as the type that is always up, always on the move, and always dreaming, Sevens are prone to the eventuality of burnout, so turning off all the noise of
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Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click i... See more
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
” When you train your mind to delay taking action on an exciting and problematic task for a few hours and completely focus yourself on the most important things you need to do, you honor your little voice. So what happened to me at the end of the seven days? For the first time in my life, I touched freedom. When I cut off the external world complet
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