True community is not formed by demanding other people to understand us nor by expecting them to make us happy. If we find each-other's company pleasant and useful, then we'll enjoy it without clinging to it. No obligations, no pressure. True community is about connection first: We should connect before react. And true connection comes from a deep understanding first and foremost."

Mixing Christian spirituality, Buddhist parables, Islamic sayings, Hindu breathing exercises, and psychological insight, spiritualist and Jesuit priest Anthony de Mello challenges readers to identify our most submerged, darkest feeling, accept them, not let them rule us, and allow this new awareness of ourselves to change us. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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De Mello's spiritual classic remains at the top of the Fount bestsellers more than five years after its original publication.

Anthony De Mello

Awareness

Superbrain yoga is a holistic, <a href="https://thehumancondition.com/somatic-psychotherapy-an-overview/">somatic (i.e., bodily] technique</a> used to enhance brain function, improve mood, and promote health. It is particularly popular as a method of improving school children’s cognitive function and performance. The technique of superbrain yoga involves crossing the arms, holding one’s earlobes, pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth, and performing 10 to 21 squats while controlling the breath.

Superbrain Yoga: Description and Benefits

The technique of superbrain yoga involves crossing the arms, holding one’s earlobes, pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth, and performing 10 to 21 squats while controlling the breath.

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Superbrain Yoga: Description and Benefits - The Human Condition

“I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon 
which you can use to change the world.”
“I learned that courage was not the 
absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not 
feel afraid, but he who conquers that 
fear.”

“Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.”

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." “If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

“We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.”

“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something.”

“What matters in life is not what 
h appens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”﻿﻿“It is not true that people stop pursuing 
dreams because they grow old, they 
grow old because they stop pursuing 
dreams.”

“I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.”

“It is not time to tell the world leaders to ﻿﻿
realise how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call 
them to take action for the rest of the 
world's children.”

“If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.”“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” “Students should be made to doubt, ﻿﻿to think, ﻿﻿to communicate, ﻿﻿to question, ﻿﻿to learn from their mistakes, and most importantly﻿﻿ have fun in their learning.﻿”﻿

Inspiring to learn from people "who have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind."

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Inspiring Quotes from 10 Nobel Laureates

ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response), which was coined in 2010, is a soothing, frequently tranquil feeling that originates on the scalp and spreads down the body. It is activated by calm sights and noises such as whispers, accents, and crackles, and is also known as "brain massage."

What's in a name?

Though most people connect YouTube with visual material, sound-oriented videos are resonating with millions of users. The noises of alerts, notifications, and pings send shivers down our spines. However, many customers use technology, particularly video, to unwind. On YouTube, there is a whole world of music production aimed to make you feel happy. Sound a little specialized? It isn't. ASMR is the most popular trend you've never heard of.

A current trend on YouTube

In a YouTube video, George Hamilton, who plays Colonel Sanders, talks about pocket squares and appreciates the sounds of KFC's new crispy fried chicken.

KFC has joined the trend

Whatever the nature of ASMR is, there is definitely a large, engaged and rising audience that responds to it.

Sound-oriented ASMR videos are resonating with millions of YouTube users. Learn how this YouTube Trend improves profiles by lowering the volume.

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ASMR Videos Are the Biggest YouTube Trend You've Never Heard Of

Do you read a lot of self-help books? Do you watch self-improvement videos frequently to learn how you can better yourself?If you do, one difficulty you’d undoubtedly face on this journey is ‘actionability’ — that is, taking action and applying new knowledge you’ve learned to better yourself.

The Journey of Self Improvement

You see…Knowledge is not power. Knowledge is POTENTIAL power. If you don’t use your knowledge in some way, shape, or form, it is innately worthless. Yes. Knowledge is worthless if you don’t tap on them.

Knowledge is NOT power

So what’s stopping us from taking action on our knowledge? Well… there are a couple of reasons. Let’s explore.

How Do We Turn Knowledge Into Power?

<ul><li>We often think that big changes are necessary for us to grow. </li><li>However, big changes require a lot of work. </li><li>If you put yourself in a position where you can easily get overwhelmed by the large amount of work, you’d very likely give up.</li></ul>Example:<ul><li>You want to start meditating to clear your mind. </li><li>You set a goal to meditate every day for 30 minutes. </li><li>However, the large time commitment quickly overwhelms you and you give up on meditation altogether.</li></ul>

Problem #1 — We THINK we HAVE TO make really big changes

The solution to this problem requires a mindset shift. <ul><li>Understand that small changes are enough. </li><li>Oftentimes the change you need is SMALLER than you think. </li><li>Starting small makes it mentally easy for you to get started. </li><li>You can ALWAYS ramp up your efforts as time passes. </li></ul>These little bits of effort will add up in the long run. Consider This: <ul><li>Start by meditating for 3 minutes twice a week. </li><li>Once you start to notice the benefits, you can slowly ramp up your meditation frequency and duration.</li><li>It’s much easier for you to pick up the habit of meditation this way.</li></ul>

Solution #1 — Focus on making REALLY small sustainable changes

Here’s a great example. <ul><li>Bob and Alice are both trying to become healthier. </li><li>Bob says that he will “try to become healthier this year”. </li><li>Alice says that she will run 3 times a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 8 am to 9 am. </li></ul>Who do you think is more likely to accomplish their goal? They say that “ambiguity is the mother of procrastination” and that couldn’t be closer to the truth.

Problem #2 — We don’t have a clear plan

To eliminate ambiguity, you need a plan.In general, the more specific and the more clear you are about your plan the better. <ul><li>What’s the first task you will tackle when you wake up? </li><li>How long will you spend on your afternoon workout? </li><li>Where will you do your evening meditation? </li></ul>The goal is to turn your desired outcomes into a series of very clear behaviors.

Solution #2 — Make a plan and be specific

There are many golden nuggets of wisdom in self-help books and yet we struggle to remember most of them. Even if we somehow remember the lessons vaguely, we fail to act on them at the right times. A lesson about leadership may only be relevant when you are in a leadership position. However, you get so overwhelmed while leading that you fail to use the leadership tips you learned in a book. Your breathing exercises will only come in handy when you’re in high-pressure situations. However, when you’re stressed, you fail to remember the breathing exercises that are supposed to calm you down.

Problem #3 — We don’t remember to do it

The first thing you need to do is realize the fallibility of human memory. <ul><li>To remember the lessons from self-help books, you NEED to take notes.</li><li>Taking notes not only helps you to remember key ideas from books you’ve read, but it also saves you the time from flipping through the book to search for ideas you vaguely remember. </li></ul>

Solution #3 — Take notes and set triggers to remind you

After keeping track of these valuable lessons, you’d want to set some triggers to prompt yourself to take action on them. A trigger is any stimulus that influences behaviors (similar to a cue)<ul><li>Time-based trigger: It’s 7 am — my alarm rang so I will get up to head for work </li><li>Location-based trigger: I passed by the park so I will slow down, try to be more present, and take deep breaths to relieve my pressure </li><li>Emotional State Trigger: I feel stressed so I will sit down and meditate </li></ul>Ultimately, writing notes allows you to track your knowledge, and setting triggers reminds you to take action on them.

Solution #3 (continue)

To end off, I'd like to leave you with a quote"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."I hope you found some value in these writings. Take care and I'll catch you in my next writing! Cheers.

Struggling to take action on what I’ve learned is something that’s very close to my heart. I sometimes wonder about the purpose of reading a whole self-help book if I fail to act on my newfound knowledge.

If this resonates with you, I am positive that this article will bring great value. Have a read!

This article is written part of the #CrystalizeMyLearning movement I founded where I seek to learn through writing | August 2022 Edition * * * Do you read a lot of self-help books? Do you watch self-improvement videos frequently to learn how you can better yourself? If you do, one difficulty you’d u

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3 Ways To Turn Knowledge Into Action

Visualization is important because it helps to prepare and to teach you how to respond to a situation before it happens. It also helps you achieve your goals by conditioning your brain to see, hear, and feel the success in your mind.

Visualization

Visualization is effective because it harnesses the power of our subconscious mind. When we visualize goals as complete, it creates a conflict in our subconscious mind between what we are visualizing and what we currently have.

Why is visualization so powerful?

Visualization is a useful technique that helps you reach your goals and live your dreams. It works by getting your mind and body ready for what you want to happen – and, just like exercise, the more you do it, the stronger it becomes.

Does visualization actually work?

1.Answers a questionVisualisation can provide a quick, high level summary of the main information contained in the data.2.Poses new questionsQuite often the initial data investigations can lead to more questions and further exploration.3.Explore and discover4.Communicate information5.Support decisions6.Increase efficiency7.Inspire

The benefits of visualisation

Visualization can be used to motivate you to focus on, and work toward, your future ideal state. It can be used to build your self-confidence. Imagine yourself presenting in front of a large audience and hearing the resounding applause. You're likely to believe, and act in a way, to make it happen.

Can visualization make things happen?

<ol><li>Try not to overthink </li><li>Use all your senses</li><li>Try not to judge yourself </li><li>Stay relaxed throughout</li><li>Practice visualization regularly</li><li>Emotionally connect </li><li>Visualize with a sense of knowing</li></ol>

How can I increase my visualization power?

In fact, visualizing movement changes how our brain networks are organized, creating more connections among different regions. It stimulates brain regions involved in rehearsal of movement, such as the putamen located in the forebrain, priming the brain and body for action so that we move more effectively.

What happens in your brain when you visualize?

It makes you smarter because you're able to perfect a task, an idea, or a goal." She adds that visualization also helps with strategizing, improving problem-solving skills, lowering stress and anxiety, increasing confidence, and bettering performance, whether on specific tasks, a sport, or creating your life purpose.

Does visualization make you smarter?

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

Visualize your success then take action.

Visualize the most amazing life imaginable to you. Close your eyes and see it clearly. Then hold the vision for as long as you can. Now place the vision in God’s hands and consider it done.

When you visualize, then you materialize.

You are more productive by doing fifteen minutes of visualization than from sixteen hours of hard labor.

I believe in creative visualization.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.

The power of visualization can be used for anyone in a competitive setting. In fact, the most successful athletes in the world visualize their success before a competition.

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Problem Solving

The power of visualization: improve your skill by training your mind – Esports Healthcare

Success is a word with many Meanings, for someone its money, for someone its the eternal legacy it provides. Whatever the definition of your Success is, you can achieve it! (Write Down This: Success isn't about Talent, its about the Vision and the Hard Work you put in)

Success!

Yes, seems counter-intuitive doesn't it? But yes being 100% committed to your dreams is easier and better than even being committed 99% committed to your dreams.Here are the 3 actions you need to take to become 100% committed to your dream:1. Don't do anything that doesn't contribute towards your Dreams2. Change your perspective about yourself and change your mindset3. Change your surroundings and make them aligned with your Goals

100% Commitment is Easier

We have always experienced times where we want to Work but just can't get ourselves to do that, maybe we are tired, maybe we don't feel good, but at these times we need to see and feel the Potent Future which lies above the Hard Work and Sacrifices. Whether you are Down or whether you are Up, you have to trust your Visions and Dreams, always believe in the Potent Future where you achieve Greatness.

Mindset and The Future

If you want to win! Have a Role Model, it can be anyone, but it needs to be someone who you want to be like. Once you have a Role Model, start acting and behaving like them, start thinking like them, add newer qualities to yourself.Remember: You are the Writer of your Story, and you can make it Happen

Your Role Model

While going through these changes it is very easy for someone to develop a sort of Ego and get this: "Ego is the Enemy!" So, Stay Humble whilst staying Hungry, being Humble can save a lot of your time and energy in the long run. Keep a check on yourself and stay away from developing a Ego. Stay Committed and StayHumble!

Stay Humble

Yes, start small don't try to start being perfect from day one, some effort is more than no effort. And once you achieve a certain degree of perfection, try new ideas and keep reinventing yourself! Good Luck!

Start Small

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be

5 Ideas For Guaranteed Success Anywhere and Everywhere! ⭐

The Bullet Journal Method is for anyone struggling to find their place in the digital age.Self-reflective practices like BuJo give us a way to ground ourselves in our most important values and principles before we step outside into the information maelstrom.

Finding your place in the digital age

We are surrounded by endless knowledge, yet more often than we'd like, we are also starving for wisdom.Slow down, treat each new idea as a practical experiment, and wait to see what results it produces before rushing on to the next fascinating concept.

Treat each new idea as an experiment

We can't be true to ourselves if we don't know what we want, and more importantly why, so that's where we must begin.This may seem very woo-woo, but it can be as simple as paying attention to What resonates with us, what sparks our interest-and, importantly, what does not.

Pay attention to what resonates

By recording our lives, we're simultaneously creating a rich archive of our choices and our actions for future reference.We can study our mistakes and learn from them. Studying our failures and our victories can provide tremendous insight, guidance, and motivation as we plot our way forward.

Study your mistakes

<ul><li>If at some point you feel overwhelmed, take a step back and start by implementing only the pieces that make sense.</li><li>Most components are self-contained by design, so you can effectively use them even if you don’t use the rest.</li><li>Start with what speaks to you-even if it's just one piece-and build to there.</li></ul>

Start small and build from there

<ul><li>Allow ambiguous nuggets to make it through even before their utility is clear.</li><li>Notes include facts, ideas, thoughts, and observations. They log information you want to remember that isn’t immediately or necessarily actionable.</li></ul>

Keep your filter a little loose

By keeping your Notes short, you're forced to distill information down to the essential. As information gets distilled, it becomes more potent, more usable, and more valuable.Distillation doesn't have to happen late in the workflow. You can often distill something right at the moment of capturing it.

Keep your notes short

Your notes will be useless if they can't be deciphered in a week, month, or year from now.Honor your relationship with your "future self" by honoring them, looking out for their needs, and making sure you're thinking about them today and in the future.

Keep your future self in mind

Tiago shares 10 favorite quotes from The Bullet Journal Method and how each one shaped his thinking about notes, journaling, and productivity.

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What I Learned From The Bullet Journal Method - Forte Labs

The more attention and care you give to a plant, the more the yield.You may either get a thorny bush or a fragrant flower. It all depends on the seed and how much work you put into it.Given a choice, you'd naturally want more of one kind and less of other.

Plants

Come to think of it (pun intended). Thoughts are like plants. We prefer some - childhood memories, vacations, achievements. We dislike some - unpleasant memories, past experiences, stress, anxiety.Most of us trim the flowers and water the bushes, unknowingly.

Thoughts

We are constantly working on our garden (mind) which has all kinds of plants (seeds).Everytime we ignore or escape from the thought, we are still giving attention to it i.e. watering it.Sometimes we are aware of this, most of the time it is subconscious.

You are the gardener

First step is noticing that the a thought has arisen. Don't fight it or run from it. Acknowledge it, say 'hello'. Think through if this has any relevance in your present.If it does, plan the best step forward.If it does not, take a deep breath and just visualize that you have chopped of a part of this bush with hedge shears. Wait a few moments and then carry on with your day.

Trim thorny bushes

Brain has the ability to be influenced by thorns and flowers equally. Use this mechanism to your advantage.If you naturally feel grateful and relive good memories, great! Otherwise, set some time during the day for this activity.Pick any thought - a person, a moment, nature, god, whatever makes you feel at peace. Fully live this thought, take a deep breath and imagine you are watering a flower pot.

Nurture fragrant flowers

With consistent effort, over a period of time your garden will have almost no thorny bushes and full of flowers.Maybe a few trees as well :)Use the power of visualization as that too is just a thought. A strong one because you are aware of it.

Garden of your choice

Use your brain's natural tendencies to your advantage. Tips to control your thoughts the way you like.

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Gardening your mind

Developed by self-help author S.J. Scott in his book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Habit-Stacking-Small-Changes-Minutes-ebook/dp/B00JQHB67O?tag=wellandgood19-20&asc_refurl=https://www.wellandgood.com/habit-stacking/">Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less </a>, the concept of habit stacking is just what it sounds like. You identify any regular habit (which can be as small as brushing your teeth or closing your laptop at the end of a workday), and build a new habit on top of that existing habit. Think: “After I brush my teeth, I will wash my face.”

Stacking Habits

“With habit stacking, the current habit becomes a cue to engage in the new action.” —Melissa Ming Foynes, PhD, clinical psychologist

Creating Mental Cues

The everyday habits that you do almost automatically—like making coffee or sending a particular email—become that way through a particular kind of brain chemistry. The different parts of your brain that have to fire for those actions to happen start to work together very quickly and efficiently, says Dr. Foynes. Tacking a new practice onto this already-strong, habitual neural network may fast-track your brain’s adoption of it.

Building On Everyday Habits

Specific is always better for a habit stack so that your brain can both spot the old habit easily and know exactly how to act on the new one in response.

Specifity

Stack too involved an action on top of an existing habit and it’s bound to come tumbling down, no matter how stable the original habit. That's why Dr. Foynes suggests starting with a version of the new action that is very brief (no more than two to five minutes) in order to better guarantee it’ll stick, and then building from there.

Brevity 

Though brevity can inherently make a new task more doable, it’s also worth considering other elements of general attainability before you go stacking away. Look for the habits that are most ingrained and most consistently doable to ensure that anything you stack on top will be doable, too.

Attainability 

“It’s likely easier to stack together habits that have something to do with each other—like doing pushups with meditating, if they both make you feel more calm and empowered when you start your day—as opposed to stacking unrelated things, like making coffee and reading a book,” says Krastev. The more similar the items in your stack, the more likely you are to move seamlessly from one to the next until the whole thing is routine.

Similarity 

Building new habits on top of old ones. Beating the procrastination bug.

The concept of habit stacking refers to stacking a desired action on top of an existing habit. Here's why it can help with follow-through.

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Habit Stacking Will Trick Your Mind Into Adopting a New Habit | Well+Good

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