What most nurturing parents will do is tell their child how great they are. That they’re unique, special one of a kind, they’re an outstanding human. Then they’ll gloat that little Jimmy is so athletic, or he could count to 100, or Anna is so cute, to everyone who’ll listen.
Then we actually begin to believe and become proud of ourselves, that we are truly special people.
As we then go through the passage of school, begin to grow a mind of our own with opinions, we gasp. Hey wait …
There was an anniversary of sorts that recently past, as Facebook was founded in 2004, which unofficially kicked off the social media era. Before that, the Internet, the World Wide Web, was a cold dark scary place. A database of information in digital format, where “spam” was no longer just a mystery meat.
Social media was when the Internet became user friendly, where it became a warm inviting place, and not just geeks trolling and hacking on message boards.
We continue to advance forward into uncharted territory, in regards to …
What we constantly need is to guard and keep our emotions in check, as it’s a core feature of our personality. We need to constantly monitor it, by not sporadically bursting out in laughter when something’s not funny, or begin to suddenly feel sad, frustrated or angry.
What we’re all familiar with are the ups and downs, the sad and the happy we experience, which can significantly dent our well-being.
It becomes important to regulate these hosts of feelings, which impacts how you’re perceived by others.
Do you suddenly break …
Most are just too busy running around trying to survive, arrange their lives to be somewhere, usually somewhere else, wanting to be anywhere but here. Learning to become grateful, will grant you the freedom from the hypnosis of a culture that’s constantly looking to make themselves be, feel better.
What we want is to always be somewhere else financially, geographically, to have better relationships.
We often want to be anywhere rather than right here, and that if we’re somewhere else, it’s in the hopes our lives would get better.
This …
Experiencing mindfulness is all about right the now at this very moment, being aware of just being. There’s no need to go into a deep trance or go to a hot yoga studio, as mindfulness can be performed as you walk, work, whatever you’re currently doing.
Some describe mindfulness as the basic awareness of human ability, to be fully present of where you are and what you’re doing, regardless of what that may be.
It does not require going into some mystical trance or joining a cult religion, as anyone …