Life is a journey filled with ups and downs, love and heartbreak, success and failure. Throughout this journey, there are certain universal truths that we must come to terms with in order to find happiness and fulfillment.

The Power of Perception: Embracing Change and Growth

Love is a complex and ever-evolving emotion. While it may seem comforting to believe that we will fall in love with our partner forever, the reality is that love can change over time. Rather than clinging to the notion of eternal love, it is important to embrace the concept of love as a fluid and dynamic force.

No love is permanent

Time is a precious and finite resource, and how we choose to utilize it determines the quality of our lives. Regardless of our circumstances, whether in moments of joy or in times of hardship, time continues to move forward.

Time will pass anywhere

Our beliefs shape our perception of reality and profoundly impact our actions and outcomes. While hard work is undoubtedly important, our beliefs play an equally vital role in our journey toward success.

Your beliefs determine your success and failure in life:

Words possess immense power. The language we use, both in our interactions with others and our internal dialogue, has a profound impact on our thoughts, emotions, and actions. Choosing words that are positive and uplifting sets the stage for a more optimistic outlook on life.

Use words wisely

Forgiveness is a transformative act that liberates us from the burdens of anger, resentment, and pain. Holding onto grudges and refusing to forgive keeps us trapped in a cycle of negativity, poisoning our relationships and hindering personal growth.

Forgiveness

Understand yourself and those around you.

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The Power of Perception:  Embracing Change and Growth

Humility empowers us to embrace the opportunity for continuous learning from everyone around us, recognizing the greatness in others. It reshapes our worldview and fosters a profound sense of contentment in our lives.It allows us to let go of ego-driven desires and comparisons, freeing us from the constant pursuit of external validation. Instead, we find solace and satisfaction within ourselves, leading to a greater sense of inner peace.

Humility And Contentment

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Tranquility

The importance of embracing vulnerability as a means to connect with others and experience true belonging. Let go of the fear of being imperfect and to allow themselves to be seen.

Embracing Vulnerability

We should be authentic and genuine in our interactions and relationships. Brown emphasizes that embracing our true selves and being comfortable in our own skin is key to living a fulfilling life.

Cultivating Authenticity

Perfectionism is rooted in the fear of not being enough, we should let go of unrealistic standards and embrace our imperfections.

Letting Go of Perfectionism

We should treat ourselves with kindness, understanding, and forgiveness, acknowledging that everyone makes mistakes and faces challenges.

Cultivating Self-Compassion

Setbacks and failures are a part of life, and resilience allows us to bounce back and grow stronger from those experiences.

Nurturing Resilience

The book delves into the concept of shame and its impact on our lives. Brown suggests that shame can be overcome by embracing vulnerability, practicing self-compassion, and cultivating a sense of joy and gratitude.

Letting Go of Shame and Embracing Joy

The book emphasizes the significance of building and nurturing meaningful connections with others. Brown encourages readers to engage in genuine and open communication, establish boundaries, and surround themselves with supportive and authentic relationships.

Cultivating Meaningful Relationships

Ultimately, the book encourages readers to embrace who they are, imperfections and all, and to live a wholehearted life characterized by authenticity, vulnerability, and self-compassion.

Living a Wholehearted Life

'This important book is about the lifelong journey from 'What will people think?' to 'I am enough.' Brown's unique ability to blend original research with honest storytelling makes reading The Gifts of Imperfection like having a long, uplifting conversation with a very wise friend who offers compassion, wisdom, and great advice.' —Harriet Lerner, New York Times best-selling author of The Dance of Anger and The Dance of Connection'Brené Brown courageously tackles the dark emotions that get in the way of leading a fuller life; read this book and let some of that courage rub off on you.' —Daniel H. Pink, New York Times best-selling author of A Whole New Mind'Courage, compassion, and connection: Through Brené's research, observations, and guidance, these three little words can open the door to amazing change in your life.' —Ali Edwards, author of Life ArtistIn The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown, a leading expert on shame, authenticity, and belonging, shares ten guideposts on the power of Wholehearted living—a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness.Each day we face a barrage of images and messages from society and the media telling us who, what, and how we should be. We are led to believe that if we could only look perfect and lead perfect lives, we'd no longer feel inadequate. So most of us perform, please, and perfect, all the while thinking, What if I can't keep all of these balls in the air? Why isn't everyone else working harder and living up to my expectations? What will people think if I fail or give up? When can I stop proving myself?In The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown, Ph.D., a leading expert on shame, authenticity and belonging, shares what she's learned from a decade of research on the power of Wholehearted Living – a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness. In her ten guideposts, Brown engages our minds, hearts, and spirits as she explores how we can cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough, And to go to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am sometimes afraid, but I am also brave. And, yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable, but that doesn't change the truth that I am worthy of love and belonging.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This tenth-anniversary edition of the game-changing #1 New York Times bestseller features a new foreword and new tools to make the work your own. For over a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and, on occasion, cry with you. And what’s now become a movement all started with The Gifts of Imperfection, which has sold more than two million copies in thirty-five different languages across the globe. What transforms this book from words on a page to effective daily practices are the ten guideposts to wholehearted living. The guideposts not only help us understand the practices that will allow us to change our lives and families, they also walk us through the unattainable and sabotaging expectations that get in the way. Brené writes, “This book is an invitation to join a wholehearted revolution. A small, quiet, grassroots movement that starts with each of us saying, ‘My story matters because I matter.’ Revolution might sound a little dramatic, but in this world, choosing authenticity and worthiness is an absolute act of resistance.”

Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. Brené is also a visiting professor in management at The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, and her latest book, Dare to Lead.Brené hosts the Unlocking Us Podcast and the Dare to Lead Podcast. Her TED talk – The Power of Vulnerability – is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world with over 50 million views.

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The Gifts of Imperfection

Don’t make like a banana & split

Don’t be like a lemon and sour your mood.

vs. those grapes that just wine about evvvvvvvvverything.

Always be raisin’ your spirits!

Orrange your priorities to include a zest for life. Or at least for a slice of it.

Peel back the masks you wear.

Don’t be one. Just be berry awesome like all the other boysen girls.

Strawberries get picked on.

Be a cherry. Pop & stay on top.

Be sweet on the inside, you prick.

Be a pineapple, will ya?

Branch out and explore! *she leaves*

Don’t fall far from the tree.

In a moment where all experience tells me to embrace my feelings, I have discovered yet another opportunity to distract myself.

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Fruit-flavored Wisdom 🍎

<ul><li>Pride</li><li>Envy</li><li>Greed</li><li>Wrath</li><li>Lust</li><li>Gluttony</li><li>Sloth</li></ul>

Why does being bad feel so good?

Research explains where these behaviors come from and help us understand why we continue to engage in them—and often celebrate them—even as we declare them to be evil.

Techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which highlights metabolically active areas of the brain, now allow us to view the biology of bad intentions.

The most enjoyable sins engage the brain’s reward circuitry, including evolutionarily ancient regions such as the nucleus accumbens and hypothalamus; located deep in the brain, they provide us such fundamental feelings as pain, pleasure, reward, and punishment.

More disagreeable forms of sin such as wrath and envy enlist the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. This area, buried in the front of the brain, is often called the brain’s conflict detector, coming online when you are confronted with contradictory information or even simply when you feel pain.The more social sins (pride, envy, lust, wrath) recruit the medial prefrontal cortex. Found just behind the forehead, this region helps shape the awareness of self.

No understanding of temptation is complete without considering restraint, and neuroscience illuminates this process as well. As we struggle to resist, inhibitory cognitive control networks involving the front of the brain activate to squelch naughty impulses by tempering their appeal.

Meanwhile, research suggests that regions such as the caudate—partly responsible for body movement and coordination—suppress the physical impulse. It seems to be the same whether you feel a spark of lechery, a surge of jealousy, or the desire to pop somebody in the mouth: The two sides battle it out, the devilish reward system versus the angelic brain regions that hold us in check.

It might be too strong to claim that evolution has wired us for sin, but excessive indulgence in lust or greed could certainly put you ahead of your competitors.

“Many of these sins you could think of as virtues taken to the extreme. From the perspective of natural selection, you want the organism to eat, to procreate, so you make them rewarding. But there’s a potential for that process to go beyond the bounds.”

There is no sin centre in the brain, no single node of fiendishness that we might be able to shut down with drugs or electrodes. With the advent of modern imaging techniques that peer into the brain as it functions, though, we at least gain some perspective on our bad habits. At the same time, we can indulge in another wickedly gratifying pastime: As other people misbehave, we can sit back and watch.

In the annals of sin, weaknesses of the flesh—lust, gluttony, sloth—are considered second-tier offenses, less odious than the “spiritual” sins of envy and pride. That’s good news, since these yearnings are notoriously difficult to suppress.

Lust

Watching pornography calls upon brain regions associated with reward, sensory interpretation, and visual processing. It enlists the amygdala and the hypothalamus, which deal with emotional information; it also stimulates the reward processing ventral striatum, probably due to the satisfying nature of watching erotic stimuli. All said, the most notable thing about lust is that it sets nearly the whole brain buzzing.

These responses are so unique and distinctive that, in the context of an experiment, it is possible to determine whether a man is aroused just by looking at an fMRI brain scan. “These are huge effects,” Safron says. “You’re looking at the difference between something that elicits intense desire and something that does not.” (Women show a less spectacular response, Safron says, and it is unclear exactly why.).

If lechery is all-consuming, how do we ever manage to control it? As with other powerful impulses, we try to shut down arousal by calling upon the right superior frontal gyrus and right anterior cingulate gyrus, according to research led by Mario Beauregard. He and others propose that these brain areas form a conscious self regulatory system. This network provides us with the evolutionarily unprecedented ability to control our own neural processing—a feat achieved by no other creature.

Today it is difficult to regard overeating as a sin, considering the overwhelming evidence of the powerful role of physiology in appetite. Physician Gene-Jack Wang has studied the brains of overeaters since 1999, when he and colleague Nora Volkow originally observed that obesity and drug addiction alter the same brain circuits.

Gluttony

These pathways, which rely on the neurotransmitter dopamine, are often referred to as the reward system, but they are also involved in motivation, attention, decision making, and other complex functions. In their studies, Wang and Volkow found that both drug addicts and obese people are less sensitive to dopamine’s rewarding effects. Being relatively numb to the pleasure and motivation signal may make them more likely to chase after a stronger thrill: more food or a bump of cocaine. Excessive stimulation further desensitizes dopaminergic neurons, and the compulsion snowballs.

In some of his experiments, Wang asks his volunteers to come hungry. He then torments them, asking them to describe their favorite food in detail while he heats it up in a microwave so that its aroma wafts through the room. When they go into a positron-emission tomography (PET) scanner, Wang sees the motivation regions of their brains go wild. Parts of the orbital frontal cortex, which is implicated in decision making, also light up.

In the brains of obese people, the regions that regulate sensory information from the mouth and tongue are more active, suggesting that overweight people may experience the sensations of eating differently. Other research shows that their reward sensitivity is lower. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and other areas involved in inhibitory control are underactive; the heavier the person, the lower the activity there.

“Our brain evolved for us to eat in excess, in order to survive. This kind of excess is built into the brain.”

Mere laziness seems out of place among the deadly sins. It helps to know that this moral failing was originally conceived of as acedia, a term that suggested alienation and tedium, tinged with self-contempt. Acedia afflicted jaded monks who had grown weary of the cloistered life. Their sin was turning away from their moral obligations and toward selfish pursuits—a monastic form of ennui.

Sloth

Today, paralyzing lassitude is often seen as a symptom of disease rather than of turpitude. Apathy is a classic sign of frontotemporal dementia. In this neurodegenerative disorder, the frontal lobes of the brain are slowly eaten away, causing social and mood changes as well as cognitive decline. Patients with such dementia often become increasingly withdrawn.

Sadness and listlessness are also hallmarks of major depression. With frontotemporal dementia the symptoms are caused by dead and dying cells; in depression the root cause is still unknown. In both conditions, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex has an unusual pattern of activation.

Related to its ability to inhibit impulses, this region has a role in sustaining attention over the long haul. Abnormal function in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex might be connected to the lethargy associated with both conditions. Conversely, activity in this area may keep a lid on negative emotions; in some studies, depression lifted with stimulation of that part of the brain.

Early theologians saw pride as the fundamental sin—the “queen of them all,” according to Pope Gregory the Great, who codified the list of seven deadly sins in the sixth century. Indeed, psychologists say that arrogance is second nature in Western society. Most of us perceive ourselves as slightly smarter, funnier, more talented, and better-looking than average.

Pride

These rose-colored glasses are important to mental health, functioning as a psychological immune system that protects us from despair. “Those who see themselves as they truly are—not so funny, a bad driver, overweight—have a greater chance of being diagnosed with clinical depression,” says Julian Paul Keenan.

For most of us, it takes less mental energy to puff ourselves up than to think critically about our own abilities. In one recent neuroimaging study, volunteers who imagined themselves winning a prize or trouncing an opponent showed less activation in brain regions associated with introspection and self-conscious thought than people induced to feel negative emotions such as embarrassment. We accept positive feedback about ourselves readily,

“Compared with guilt or embarrassment, pride might be processed more automatically.”

Pride gets its swagger from the self-related processing of the medial prefrontal cortex, which Keenan calls “a very interesting area of the brain, involved in all these wonderful human characteristics, from planning to abstract thinking to self-awareness.”

Using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), in which a magnetic field applied to the scalp temporarily scrambles the signal in small areas of the brain, he was able to briefly shut off the medial prefrontal cortex in volunteers. With TMS switched on, his subjects’ normal, healthy arrogance melted away. “They saw themselves as they really were, without glossing over negative characteristics”.

Righteous humility has traditionally been depicted as the virtue that opposes pride, but the work of Keenan and others calls that into question. He is using TMS to disrupt deliberate self-deprecation—the type of unctuous, ingratiating behavior that seems humble but is actually disguised arrogance.

Patterns of brain activation during self-deprecation are fundamentally the same as those during selfdeceptive pride, Keenan is finding. “They’re in the same location and seem to serve the same purpose: putting oneself ahead in society."

Despite the enormous pool of potential research subjects, greed has not yet been systematically investigated in brain research. However, neuroscience does offer insight into a related phenomenon, the indignant outrage of the cheated.

Greed

Our hatred of unfairness runs deep, even trumping rational self-interest. In the lab, researchers frequently use the “ultimatum game” to test our responses to injustice. One of two partners is given a sum of money and told that he must offer some amount of his own choosing to his partner. If the partner rejects the offer, neither gets to keep any of the cash.

On a rational basis, the receiving partner should accept any nonzero offer, since getting some money is always better than getting none at all. But people’s sense of violation at unfairness is so strong that test subjects reject offers of 20 percent or less about half the time.

In response to unfair offers, the brain activates the pain detection process. It also engages the bilateral anterior insula, an area implicated in negative emotions such as anger, disgust, and social rejection. The overall picture that emerges from fMRI is that of a brain weighing an emotional response (the urge to punish the guy who is cheating you) against a logical response (the appeal of the cash).

When Lieberman increased the money being offered, he found that accepting a share that was larger but still unfair—say, $8 out of $23—was linked with increased activity in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and downregulation of the anterior insula, changes that are often seen during the regulation of negative feelings. People seemed to be swallowing their outrage to accept a reward that was inequitable but appealing.

Similarly, getting a fair offer—even if it was small in absolute terms—activated regions in the brain that are involved in automatic and intuitive reward processing. Justice apparently feels good.

The sin of pride turned on its head, envy is the most social of the moral failures, sparked by the excruciating awareness of someone else’s supreme talent, stunning looks, or extremely expensive car. For that reason, it is also the least fun of the deadly sins; feeling jealous provides no dirty thrill.

Envy

Only one imaging study (conducted by Takahashi’s group in Japan) has probed the neural basis of envy. Volunteers in fMRI machines were asked to read three scenarios. In the first, “student A” was portrayed as similar to, but better than, the volunteer in every respect. “Student B” was depicted as equally successful but very different from the subject, and “student C” sounded pretty much like a loser.

Reading about the awe-inspiring student A activated the volunteers’ conflict-detecting brain region, perhaps responding to the gap between the default setting of self-aggrandizing pride and the ugly truth of someone else’s triumphs. This same region is enlisted when feeling pain, suggesting to Takahashi that envy is a kind of “social pain in the self.”

On the other hand, indulging in schadenfreude—delight in someone else’s downfall—can be downright bliss. Aquinas termed this “morose delectation” and condemned it as a failure to resist a passion. Indeed, Takahashi found that rejoicing in a rival’s defeat brings pleasure just as surely as envy does pain. In the second phase of his study, volunteers read about student A’s downfall, causing the ventral striatum to light up.

The striatum is part of the so-called reward system, which can be activated by such pleasures as money, food, or sex, Takahashi says. The stronger the activation of the brain’s conflict detector in the first study, the stronger the striatum response in the second.

It may not have been the original sin, but rage is certainly primordial: Much of the brain circuitry active during anger is very basic and very fast. In humans, anger also enlists the conflict-detecting dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, which immediately alerts other regions of the brain to pay attention. The more upset you get, the more it activates, according to Tom Denson, a psychologist at the University of New South Wales in Australia. In people with short fuses, this part of the brain seems to be primed to feel provocation and personal slights, Denson says.

Wrath

Some of us are more easily enraged than others, but few are able to stifle rage completely. Instead we may convert overt hostility into angry brooding.To investigate the difference between short fusers and brooders, Denson antagonized his volunteers, insulting them while he scanned their brains. “Within seconds you see differences,” he says.

The medial prefrontal cortex, associated with self-awareness and emotional regulation, quickly lit up in angry brooders. So did the hippocampus, involved in memory. As they fume, people repeatedly relive the insult in their minds. Denson found that the degree of hippocampal activation predicted how much people tended to ruminate.

Probing the underpinnings of vengeful behavior, a German group led by neuropsychologist Ulrike Krämer allowed people who had been provoked during an experiment to punish their antagonist with a blast of extremely annoying noise. While the subjects pondered how loud to set the volume, the dorsal striatum, part of the brain’s reward circuitry, lit up at the prospect of retaliation.

“We have this primitive brain that says, ‘Do it! Do it!’” Denson says. Similarly, people asked to imagine themselves engaging in aggressive behavior actively suppress activity in the prefrontal cortex, where social information is processed. By deliberately inhibiting our natural social response, we ready ourselves to strike out.

Historically, moralists have not paid much heed to the findings of science, and it is safe to say that all the brain-scans in the world probably will not persuade modern theologians to recalculate the wages of sin. Still, they might want to observe one recent finding from modern neuroimaging:It turns out that acting virtuously does not really require a hair shirt. In fact, research suggests that it feels pretty good.

Jordan Grafman recently found that virtue literally is its own reward. Altruistic behavior sends reward-related brain systems into a pleasurable tizzy—even more so than the prospect of self-interested gain. “The big punch line is that all things being equal, your reward system fires off a lot more when you’re giving than when you’re taking,” says Grafman, who is chief of the cognitive neuroscience section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Call it the dirty little secret about being good: It might be even more fun than being wicked.

A scientific exploration of the 7 deadly sins 🤷‍♀️

Brain researchers are finding the sources of our nastiest temptations.

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The Neuroscience of the Seven Deadly Sins

• Socrates is one of the most well-known Greek philosophers in history whose thirst for knowledge changed the course of philosophy forever. Here are some of his best quotes :

8 Enlightenment Quotes From Socrates

" To find yourself, think for yourself. "

" The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. "

" ﻿Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

" The unexamined life is not worth living."

" We cannot live better than in seeking to become better. "

" Be as you wish to seem. "

" Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. "

" By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. "

One of the things that helped me on my self-improvement journey 😃

416 quotes from Socrates: 'The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.', 'The unexamined life is not worth living.', and 'I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think'

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Socrates Quotes (Author of Apología de Sócrates)

Many people are seeking ways to simplify their lives and focus on what truly matters. Two concepts that offer such a way of life are Essentialism and Islamic Lifestyle. While they may seem vastly different, they share some similarities and differences that are worth exploring.

The Surprising Similarities and Differences between Essentialism and Islamic Lifestyle

Essentialism is a way of life that emphasizes the importance of focusing on what is essential and eliminating the rest. It is not minimalism, which is about reducing one's material possessions to the minimum. Instead, it is a mindset for deciding whether something is essential or not and saying no to anything that is not.On the other hand, Islamic Lifestyle is a way of life that follows the teachings and guidance of Islam. It is a complete code of life that emphasizes living in moderation and balance, submitting to the will of Allah, and obeying His commands.

Embracing the Essential and Living in Balance

Despite their differences, Essentialism and Islamic Lifestyle share some similarities. Both concepts emphasize the importance of having a clear purpose and goal in life. They also encourage the practice of gratitude and contentment with what one has, as well as discourage the pursuit of worldly pleasures and distractions that can take one away from their true mission.

Discovering Shared Values in Essentialism and Islamic Lifestyle

However, there are also some potential differences between Essentialism and Islamic Lifestyle. Essentialism is based on personal choice and preference, while Islamic Lifestyle is based on divine revelation and authority. Essentialism allows for flexibility and adaptation, while Islamic Lifestyle requires adherence and commitment. Essentialism focuses on doing less but better, while Islamic Lifestyle focuses on doing more but with sincerity and excellence.

Differences between Essentialism and Islamic Lifestyle

Essentialism stresses the importance of prioritizing what is truly significant to us, rather than succumbing to external influences or the longing for acceptance. Correspondingly, ikhlas promotes concentrating on our genuine intentions and motivations, rather than seeking validation or approval from others. Additionally, ikhlas urges us to be truthful with ourselves regarding our motives and intentions, allowing us to ensure that our actions are genuinely in line with our values and objectives, and not solely motivated by external factors or self-interest.<ul><li>Identify your priorities and be honest</li></ul>

Ikhlas (إِخْلَاصٌ) - sincerity and purity of intention

Hikmah requires us to use our intellect and understanding to make wise decisions that are in line with our values and goals. This value is important in achieving balance and moderation in our pursuit of essentialism, as it helps us manage our time, resources, and relationships in a harmonious way.By using hikmah, we can make careful decisions that enable us to focus on what truly matters and eliminate distractions. We can also ensure that we maintain our well-being and nurture our relationships while pursuing our goals.<ul><li>Build relationship, embrace imperfections and stay mindful</li></ul>

Hikmah (حِكْمَةٌ) - wisdom and discernment

Tawbah, a concept in Islam, aligns with essentialism by helping us let go of non-essential things and redirect our focus towards what matters. Tawbah encourages self-reflection and learning from mistakes, which can help us stay focused on our values and priorities. Seeking forgiveness can also free us from negative emotions and give us a renewed sense of purpose.<ul><li>Reflect on your actions, mistake happens, seek forgiveness, and make plan for improvement </li></ul>

Tawbah (تَوْبَةٌ) - repentance and seeking forgiveness

<ul><li>Sabr (صَبْرٌ) - patience and perseverance through hardship, which is essential to staying focused on one's goals and priorities.</li><li>Shukr (شُكْرٌ) - gratitude and appreciation for the blessings in our lives, which helps us stay centered and focused on what is truly important.</li><li>Tawakkul (تَوَكُّلٌ) - trust and reliance on Allah, which enables us to let go of unnecessary worries and distractions and focus on what truly matters.</li></ul>By embodying these values in our lives, we can align our pursuit of essentialism with our Islamic beliefs and values, and create a more meaningful and purposeful way of life.

And more...

I wonder if there are similarities between Essentialism and Islam. Perhaps both ideologies emphasize the importance of an unchanging essence or nature, and view the world in terms of distinct categories and classifications.

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Finding Purpose and Balance: The Surprising Similarities and Differences between Essentialism and Islamic Lifestyle

If someone wants to manifest a new car, they could focus their thoughts and beliefs on having a new car, visualize themselves driving it, and believe that it’s possible. By doing so, they are sending out positive energy into the universe, and the universe may respond by bringing a new car into their lives.

Ask and you shall receive

“How the law of attraction works with emojis and real-life examples” If someone uses positive emojis and words when posting on social media about their goals and desires, they are sending out positive energy into the universe. This positive energy may attract more opportunities and experiences that align with their desires. On the other hand, if someone uses negative emojis and words when posting about their goals and desires, they may be sending out negative energy that could attract experiences they don’t want.

Law of Attraction

In conclusion, the power of the conscious and subconscious minds can have a profound impact on our lives. By tapping into the power of the universe and trusting in our higher power, we can manifest our desires and navigate our challenges with more ease and grace. It is important to stay open, positive, and grateful for the opportunities that come our way and to use our thoughts and beliefs to create the life we want.

The power of the conscious and subconscious minds is an age-old concept that has gained renewed attention in recent years. Many believe that our thoughts and beliefs have a direct impact on our lives and that we can manifest our desires by tapping into the power of the universe. Here are some examples that illustrate this concept:

The power of the conscious and subconscious minds is an age-old concept that has gained renewed attention in recent years. Many believe that our thoughts and beliefs have a direct impact on our lives and that we can manifest our desires by tapping into the power of the universe. 

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Meditation

The power of the subconscious mind

The entangled particles phenomenon is an example of quantum entanglement, which is a quantum-mechanical phenomenon in which two or more particles form a system in which the total quantum state of the particles cannot be described independently of each other.

WHAT ARE ENTANGLED PARTICLES?

The phenomenon of quantum entanglement defies conventional physics laws and challenges fundamental concepts such as causality and locality. It is a complex and intellectually stimulating area of study.

Non- Conforming To Traditional Laws Of Physics

These features are difficult for many scientists to accept and may lead them to consider it an unlikely phenomenon. Accepting this concept would require a new way of understanding our physical reality and the nature of the universe, which many physicists are not yet ready to do.

Scientists Facing Difficulty Accepting They've Been Wrong

The implications of accepting new information or ideas can certainly cause a person's beliefs and worldview to shift or adapt. This can be a difficult process for some individuals, particularly if their current beliefs are deeply entrenched or have been held for a long time.

Prior Beliefs Must Crumble

This phenomenon is essential for quantum computing and quantum teleportation, and has also been used to test various aspects of quantum mechanics.

Essential For Quantum Computing & Quantum Teleportation 

Quantum computing is the use of quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform computation. It is the application of quantum physics to information processing, allowing for the development of powerful new algorithms and techniques.

Quantum Computing 

Quantum teleportation is the process of transferring a quantum state from one location to another without physically transporting it. This process is possible because of the phenomenon of entanglement, which allows two particles to remain connected, even when separated by great distances. By measuring the state of one particle, the state of the other is instantly determined. This means that if a particle is sent from one location to another, its state can be instantaneously determined by measuring the state of the other particle.

Quantum Teleportation

Quantum teleportation has been demonstrated in laboratories and even used to send information between the Micius satellite in space and ground stations in China. <ul><li>The experiment sent entangled photons over a distance of 1200 kilometers, the longest ever recorded.</li><li> It has also been used to teleport information between different locations on Earth.</li><li>In 2017, scientists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in the Netherlands used quantum teleportation to transmit information over a distance of 44 kilometers. </li></ul>

Quantum Teleportation Has Been Demonstrated

I am fascinated with Quantum Physics, coming from a Spiritual place myself; I fully believe religion and science are meant to be learned in unison.

Entangled particles are particles that are connected across space in a way that allows them to interact with each other no matter how far apart they are.  ...

ENTANGLED PARTICLES

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The Neuroscience of the Seven Deadly Sins

Socrates Quotes (Author of Apología de Sócrates)

Finding Purpose and Balance: The Surprising Similarities and Differences between Essentialism and Islamic Lifestyle

The power of the subconscious mind

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My Belief to Allah

It's time to
Read like a Pro.

The Power of Perception: Embracing Change and Growth

Tranquility

The Gifts of Imperfection

Fruit-flavored Wisdom 🍎

The Neuroscience of the Seven Deadly Sins

Socrates Quotes (Author of Apología de Sócrates)

Finding Purpose and Balance: The Surprising Similarities and Differences between Essentialism and Islamic Lifestyle

The power of the subconscious mind

ENTANGLED PARTICLES

My Belief to Allah

It's time to Read like a Pro.

It's time to
Read like a Pro.