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Do We Need Meaning?
More meaning tends to be better. A complete absence of meaning usually feels awful. Similarly, a lack of meaning in the conceptual sense is confusion and ignorance. We’d prefer to say what things mean and believe it, than to simply shrug our shoulders and say, “I don’t know."
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Is Mindfulness the Relaxation of Meaning?
Mindfulness, particularly the body-scanning methods popular among Vipassana retreats, are effectively, a way of reducing the emotional and intellectual excesses of meaning.
By repetitive attention something that would be processed at a level of meaning dissolves into parts that lack t...
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How Can You Have Too Much Meaning?
There's two ways-
- You could feel too strongly about the significance of something which could result in anxiety and fears because of its importance to you. Like a relationship or a job that meant everything to you until it ended. The feeling of significance therefore will be usef...
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Should You Take Time to “Relax” Your Meaning of Life?
Meanings are an important part of living life well. What’s necessary is that, from time to time, you should be able to temporarily “relax” your meanings in life.
These meaningness relaxations may be related to specific situations (i.e. how you think about your future career) or it cou...
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What Meaning Means
Meaning can be a feeling. When a person, thing, goal or idea feels significant to us, and when those same things feel ordinary. The difference is meaning.
Meaning is also an idea. A definition of something. When someone asks you what something means, they’re asking for you to explain it in ...
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How To Tell If You Have Too Much Meaning?
In politics or in your personal life, you may feel powerless, or there may be situations which are not in your control but you would still get anxious and wouldn't be able to stop thinking about it. This shows an excess in meaning because if you genuinely didn’t feel the situation was significant...
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It’s okay to feel content with our lives simply because we have an inherent sense of self-worth. Reaching our goals can obviously bolster this feeling and give us a deep sense of accomplishment, but the absence of achievement should not mean the absence of happiness.
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