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The Cure for What Ails You: How to Beat the Misery of Discontentment : zen habits
Taking Positive Action
Affirmative action, even if it is little, is a great start.
- Even a little exercise every day, a walk or stretching exercises, can help us feel awesome.
- Decluttering of even a small corner of your room or a tabletop can make you feel great.
- Waking up early and meditating is a great way to get better mentally.
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The lack of true rest
It drains us out of our energy to the point where we're never fully present, fully alive in the moment.
And this could have negative consequences on many level of our ...
What true rest looks like
A few ways to rest that feel very replenishing:
- Closing your eyes, lying down, and doing nothing.
- Going outside without using a device.
- Relaxing with someone else. Feeling connection with them.
- Being fully present with a simple activity, like drinking coffee.
- Playing music, creating art, dancing etc.
How to relax
You can relax while doing something (having a bath, a cup of coffee etc.) You don’t have to be lying down, with your eyes closed.
The key is to make this the one thing that you’re doing. Be all in with this task, instead of jumping around.
It takes practice to get good at anything
Feedback is essential when you learn a new skill. However, when people learn the skill of 'creating new habits,' they think making mistakes is a sign of being a failure and...
Committing to actually starting
Overcome your mind's resistance to get started by saying, "I'm all in. I'm going to start today." Then get moving. If you're not good at this, commit to making a small habit change this instant.
Many people want to learn a language or start exercising, but then don't take action. It is because they haven't really committed to getting started.
Focus on starting
The skill to master is getting started. You don't have to exercise for half an hour; you only need to start.
Often, we're supposed to do a new habit, and we procrastinate, turn to distractions, and rationalize our resistance.
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Create containers for communication
We need to respond to emails and messages, read the news and catch up on things. But these activities don't have to fill our entire lives.
Create a container for each of these a...
Simplify by limiting
We can choose what we want in our lives deliberately, and what we don’t want and then set limits (or eliminate) that activity.
For example, limit sugar to a snack every week, watch videos only between 6-7 pm etc. These kinds of limits help us to simplify and be more deliberate.
Set intentions when starting the day
When you start your day, or any meaningful activity, ask what your intentions are for the day or that activity.
Do you want to be more present? Do you want to move your mission forward? Do you want to be compassionate with your loved ones? Set intentions and try to hold that intention as you move through the day or that meaningful activity.