Dr. K’s discipline as emotion video: According to Dr. K, in an ancient hindu text, the yogis used “resolve” as a synonym for “discipline”. And defined the opposite of “resolve” as “doubt”. And finally, he says that “resolve” is an emotion that can be cultivated through practice. All of this…
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I’m allowed to feel proud?
Yesterday, I was chatting with my boyfriend about the benefits of anger, that righteous indignation that comes when I’ve been wronged. It comes rarely, but when it does, it feels like fuel, like energizing lifeblood. I stand up straighter, I think more clearly, I am alive and I won’t be…
I want a perfect life
Laziness gives way to darkness and desires. It leads to depression. It leads to immobility, to an empty life, to nothing fulfilled. The only way to live well is to move. Do something. When I’m scrolling on youtube, reddit, looking at fashion and beauty and lifestyle content, I’m seeking the…
A dopamine detox helps us step off the hedonistic wheel
My mother reads fiction the way I do, fast and with reckless abandon. I discovered this about her at age 12, after she devoured my novel, “Holes” by ___ in just a few hours. Until that day, I assumed she just didn’t enjoy reading for pleasure like me. I felt…
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My life fell off the rails. Organizing my closet helped.
Sometimes my life completely falls off the rails. It often lines up with the week before my period, but not always. My medication either does nothing or causes me to hyperfocus on the wrong things. I fail to get my work done, and so I compensate by pulling late nights….