So you’re on top of a big hill, and you come by an almost perfectly round rock. You look at the rock, and know that it’ll be exhilarating to push it down the hill. It’ll be thrilling to see it rolling down on its own, running beside it, feeling the …
I don’t know about you, but I find it hard to think what I want to think about. My mind has a habit of thinking about what’s wrong with my life. Solve/fix problems. Feeling indignant, maligned, mistreated. Yet this is a vicious cycle. Our emotional habit reinforces itself. It becomes …
I don’t know about you, but I find myself making many decisions based on how I feel. When I’m bored I turn to my smartphone, for example. I’m in a particular state of mind and I do something to change that state, or to get more of it. Except my …
I’ve been meditating daily using a guided meditation app Headspace. In the Appreciation series the guide, Andy, discussed how it’s important to become familiar with the feeling of gratitude, because it helps you start feeling that way more often in real life. He didn’t elaborate on why that is, but …
It’s curious how our conscious mind can choose actions that we later regret, even when we know it ahead of time. I find myself giving in or getting talked into the “wrong” choices. “Just a little bit and then I’ll quit, it’ll be fun,” I would think, and I’d be …
