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Seeking support from others
Identifying the symptoms of burnout
Learning to say no
Contribution
- Volunteer your time to help a charity you believe in.
- Volunteer at your local animal shelter.
- Do something kind for someone else without expecting anything in return.
- Leverage your passion to help someone else (i.e.: if you’re an aspiring designer, design a logo for a friend).
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Communication as therapy
- Write down everything that’s weighing you down mentally and then burn it as a form of letting go.
- Write down everything you’ve learned from a difficult experience so you can see it as something useful and empowering instead of something to stress you out.
- Ap...
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Connection
- Tell the truth in your relationships.
- Catch critical, blaming, or self-victimizing thoughts.
- Have fun with someone you love. Forget about everything that feels like a problem and do something silly and childlike.
- Ask a friend to join a yoga studio with you, or invit...
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Solitude
- Schedule a date with yourself, a time when you don’t need to meet anyone else’s requests, and do something that feeds your mind and spirit.
- Sit in nature and let yourself simply be.
- Be your own best friend.
- Repeat some positive affirmations that help you feel presen...
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Creativity
- Engage in art therapy: paint or start a journal.
- Create a peace collage. Include images that make you feel relaxed and at ease.
- Take a walk with the sole intention of photographing beautiful things that make you feel at peace.
- Write a blog post about what gives you p...
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Meditation tips for peace of mind
- Take 5 to 10 minutes for a simple seated meditation.
- Take 100 deep breaths, counting “and one,” “and two,” and so on, with “and” on the inhalations and the numbers on the exhalations.
- Take a meditative walk, focusing solel...
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Let’s let go of the myth that you have to spend to give:
- Gift your family with some small experiences, such as caroling, baking, watching It’s a Wonderful Life;
- Volunteer as a family at a homeless shelter.
- Make meaningful gifts. A video of memories. A scrapbook.
- Bake gifts.
- Have an experience instead...
Means And Ends
Kant's Formula of Humanity states that treating any human being as a means to some other end is the basis of all wrong behaviour. You must act unconditionally. For example, you must respect someone without expecting anything in return. If you expect something in return then you are treating someo...
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