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Rigid Thoughts: Feeling Stuck In Negative Emotions
We get stuck in our emotions due to our spiralling mind, our fixation with old ideas and behaviours, our need to be always right, perfectionism and thinking in absolute terms.
When faced with strong reactive emotion, we are usually unable to understand that our emotions ar...
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These are the three usual suspects, stuff we do to cope-up with our emotions:
- Bottling up our emotions, leading to stress.
- Brooding over our emotions, which usually leads to self-blame.
- Forcing ourselves to see everything as
- Acknowledge and accept the various bad ways used to cope-up with negative emotions.
- Identify the feelings and be comfortable with the uncomfortable emotions like frustration and hopelessness.
- Start a journal and write down your deepest feelings and insecurities.
- L...
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Procrastination is when we avoid the tasks in our list, feeling the pressure to complete them and going through various emotions like blame, anger, frustration and anxiety. The reason we procrastinate is because we value the now and instinctively prefer to procure and en...
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The term "mindfulness" is about focusing on the moment. It is about embracing every moment of the day.
While being in the moment can be transformative, scientists still don't fully understand what happens in the brain when we practice mindfulness. What i...
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- Freedom from fear.
- Freedom from worry.
- Freedom from overwhelm. Freedom from guilt.
- Freedom from depression.
- Freedom from the trappings of the consumer culture we’ve built our lives around.
- Real freedom.
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