Everyone experiences some levels of stress if they have a functioning nervous system and I’m confident that most of us would like to experience less of it. How often have we felt overwhelmed by difficulty? How often have we found ourselves crying alone in our car at night when driving home from work or screaming into a pillow? When we find ourselves in moments like … Continue reading The Domino Effect for Stress (& Everything Else)
Have you ever experienced overwhelming pain and stress? Maybe it was love lost, a heartbreak, financial difficulty, a health crisis, or something else. As humans with nervous systems, we are sensitive to the challenges and adversities we face, even if we aren’t consciously aware of the effects they cause. Certainly we all would rather do with less pain and more of the pleasant experiences of … Continue reading Fuel for the Fire: Pain & Stress
“The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.” – Marcus Aurelius “Amor Fati” is a concept developed by the ancient Greek and Roman Stoics. It’s specifically a Latin phrase which means “the love of one’s fate.” We’ve all faced various forms of adversity and come upon different obstacles in our lives. The denial of reality can often stifle our … Continue reading Developing a Solution-Oriented Mindset Through Amor Fati
In earthy darkness ever so deep, Pressures confounding me as I feel myself weep, Like rain, Tears flowing over, As the shell of my heart being so hard begins to feel exposure. Moving upward and out of the bleak cold, Trying to break free of the soil that seems like a cast iron mold. Reaching the ceiling through earthly crust I push, Tempted to relent … Continue reading Into the Light (Poem)
Life can be difficult. In fact, there’s some people who experience such levels of adversity that they end up developing a sense and belief of learned helplessness. There was some research done through atrocious experimentation in the 1960s that established this fact. I’m going to spare you the details on those experiments (look into them at your own discretion), but essentially it showed that … Continue reading Overcoming Learned Helplessness
There are two forms of memory, explicit and implicit. Explicit memory is declarative in nature. In other words, when asked what you did today, you’re able to declare (speak) about it. Implicit memory on the other hand is memory and knowledge that is difficult to be spoken of. When we are asked how we walk, we all know how to do it, but it’s … Continue reading Self-Acceptance & Change
The title of this post says it all: No Distractions. This of course is one of the best ways to avoid procrastination, but that’s a lot easier said than done. So with that being said, how can it be done? First things first is you obviously want to remove the big distractions like your phone. Something about that little computer that we put in our … Continue reading No Distractions
Another post with no quote today, because there’s another concept I’ve heard before that I feel like needs to be addressed. As we’ve discussed many times before, stress is a powerful thing. You can either use that stress to your advantage or you can let it consume you, and there’s ways to make the first choice easier. We’ve talked about that idea quite a bit … Continue reading The Sands of Time
100th Blog Post, yay!! No quote for today though, because I wanted to focus on a specific concept that doesn’t really stick to any one idea that I could find a quote for. I’d like to preface this by saying that most self help influencers assume that everybody wants the same things: a lot of money, a huge mansion, three kids and a lamborghini. Although … Continue reading Divide and Conquer
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” This quote has actually been said by quite a few people, including T. S. Elliot, Soren Kierkegaard, Laurence J. Peter and others, which makes sense because it’s a good way of thinking. In the last post I talked about how I wanted to begin focusing on procrastination and how it affects people’s day to day lives. I … Continue reading Empty Mind, Wasted Time
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