It is no secret that we spend a lot of time working — whether we work-from-home or go to an office. With a majority of time spent at work comes a lot of anxiety, stress, and poor health. People have less time to exercise, eat healthy, or sleep properly. The Covid-19 pandemic only exacerbated these […]
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By Cayla Berejikian The past year of my life saw a lot of change. None of it felt monumentous, special, transformative, or like it was “meant to be.” It was simply constant and uncomfortable, like a dull headache. And the only side effect was vague sense of confusion and detachment, at least in the midst
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What is happiness? Most of us know when we feel it, but how do we go about defining it? Is it a generalized word to describe a wide range of other positive emotions like joy, contentment, and overall positive well-being? Or is it a philosophy of life and thus our conscious decision to be happy
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I had become irritable and highly intolerant of minor disturbances or anything that could get in the way of my comfort. And I was deeply unhappy. I embark on a mini-quest to regain ownership over my lived experience, my sense of time and place, and a sense of meaning in my day-to-day-life. And ideally, I would find some stable form of happiness.
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We are often our own harshest critics and that can get exhausting. Constantly talking down to ourselves can start to tear us down. Furthermore, we tend to not show ourselves the same compassion that we show others. It is easy to get caught up in the rat race of everyday life but we should remember
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Imagine you are sitting at a desk over your laptop with your neck bent, your shoulders tense, and your back hunched over the screen. Well, you might not even have to imagine this. It could be you at this very moment. Due to the pandemic and social distancing, we have all been spending more time than ever shackled to our desks in a variety of bad postures with more stress than usual. In fact, you might be so focused on the other distractors or stressors in your life that you do not stop to think about how all of this is impacting your body. As humans, our bodily states are very much connected with our emotional states. This can mean that if we are stressed, our body is stressed, but that is not something we pay attention to very often.
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“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.” – Lao Tzu Over 2,500 years ago, the great Lao Tzu encouraged us to take a step back and watch
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Guilt and shame are two of the most powerful emotions in our culture. They can be extremely negatively valenced in the mind and body, and I observe that they affect people’s mental health to a great degree. In this post I will describe why people can tend to get caught up in unhealthy patterns of feeling excessive shame and guilt, and give you some pointers on how you can overcome these patterns.
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Something stuns you. The last breath you took is held prisoner in your chest. Concerns you’ve grown accustomed to fade like shadows at dusk, and you stare down the barrel of truths you’ve never seen before. You are suspended in this moment like a dust particle in a beam of light: void of opinion, untethered from knowledge.
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Nothing is more peculiar and abhorrent than existing with the knowledge of your imminent demise. I can’t count the times I’ve wished I was a bug or a plant, completely oblivious to my upcoming appointment with death. At times, I wished I’d never been born at all.
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