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My dear, you are pushing away the blessing because you don’t feel worthy.
Why do you think you received it in the first place?
#self healing#genuine#awareness#my writing#spirituality#bigger picture#mental health#healing#writing
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Improve your social media and life experience.
I’ll share a few insights from podcast Modern Wisdom, a talk with Gurwinder Bhogal named “Psychology lessons to understand people better” and add my personal twist.
Mostly that podcast is about social media and how people in social media tend to act.
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1. Your social media feed can be hell.
Most posts in social media come from people being impulsive, usually people aren’t thinking about what they post, we just think of something or take a picture and upload it right away. This makes most people’s social media feed awful (we’re mostly seeing people arguing, complaining, people wishing for possessions or vacations, for money, senseless memes, and so on).
Because we tend to behave like others, and to do things that people around us are doing, in social media we can easily be seen as idiots, and we can consider that most people we follow are idiots because of what they post (especially when we don’t know the people we’re following), this happens because most posts are just unplanned impulsive posts. We’re creating ourselves an awful daily bias when we keep seeing random news feed on our cellphones and computers.
Social media can lead to an awful mindset and overall unsatisfaction.
How to avoid this?
We can easily filter all social media choosing whose posts we want to see and whose posts we don’t want to see (you can keep people as friends even after muting them, your best friend’s posts might be awful even if you like them). The algorithm was created to show things we want to see, but if we can identify things as completely useless, and as damaging for our mental health, it’s always a good idea to start filtering out many people’s posts.
Try to have a vision of the bigger picture, though.
This can however lead us to just seeing the same information always and creating a negative thing, a constant confirmation bias, it can be countered by changing the algorithm on purpose, check sources you’d never check, there are some ways to do this; searching for people, videos, books, or podcasts that we believe we’re going to dislike, and checking them out, seeing those videos, listening to those podcasts, or reading news from completely new places, there are apps that give you random news daily. Other way I think of this is asking acquaintances (mostly the ones we tend to disagree with) to suggest a video or someone they follow on social media and checking out new different information we believe we’re going to disagree with, it’s likely we’ll find useful and new stuff out there (different perspectives to bias ourselves from different sources), this could even be done with movies, watch a movie you think you’ll dislike from time to time, you’ll be surprised.
This could be applied outside of social media, hanging out and talking with people we don't talk to often, or ever.
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2. If you have a talk or debate, agree on the definitions first.
Ever had a talk or argument about something where it seems you’re talking about something completely different from the other person? It’s vital to learn the definitions and to agree on them in order to have a useful talk with someone else, if this is not done, you and the other person can be thinking about completely different things and having a strange conversation that leads nowhere.
When you want to have a meaningful talk, it’s useful to do this too, agree first about definitions, say what you think something means, hear the other person, understand each other, then move forward with the conversation.
Additionally to this, it’s always good to really try to understand definitions, we sometimes are not very sure what we ourselves are talking about, and it’s hard to express our ideas unto others.
Try to always understand and agree on definitions.
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3. Happiness.
Triple check that your happiness doesn’t depend on things you buy or things you will buy, possessions will only make people happy temporarily, believing that possessions and things like traveling will make you happy will only make you be more unsatisfied and less happy overtime.
We have the tendency to always want more, but perhaps it’s much better to find happiness in the little things and trying to enjoy the present more, without always trying to think how happy you’ll be in the future because of “x” or “y” thing is going to happen, or because you’re buying this or that thing. The present is what matters the most (for sure, plan for a better future too, make sacrifices to achieve things).
It’s great to have small goals that we can achieve overtime, like learning a language, or why not, saving money to buy a new car (because of its usefulness, not only because it’s a new car).
Extra note here, we shouldn’t spend too much time dwelling in the past, or thinking how things could’ve been. When we spend too much time in social media we tend to bias ourselves into thinking about this, and about the future, because that bias makes us want to have things that other people are sharing (because we’re constantly being reminded about it from other people’s posts).
To avoid this we can try to get busy with work/ studies and doing hobbies or things we enjoy. Using less social media must always be an objective too (IMO).
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4. The solutions we’re used to might not be the best.
Ever had pain in the wrist from using the keyboard and mouse too much? Well, the usual mouse and the usual keyboard most people use aren’t ergonomic at all; there are some good options out there people don’t even know exist like using a pen tablet instead of a mouse, or a vertical or trackball mouse.
I personally use a pen tablet as a mouse 50% of the time, it's much more ergonomic for the wrist.
This idea can thought about or be applied in infinite ways.
For problem solving, it’s good to do some research about solutions to problems we have or to things we do daily that we didn’t know even existed. For example, buying something easy to use like an air fryer for cooking, or cooking more using the microwave or a toaster oven (a toaster oven can be used to cook meat with no effort).
As far as new gadgets go, personally I believe that the invention of electronic ink readers is completely amazing, instead of having 50 books that you don’t even know where to store anymore, you can just have a tiny device like a Kindle with thousands of books in it.
An example some people never thought about, if they don’t want to be distracted by their phone at work, then can use “do not disturb” mode so it only rings with phone calls, tell their friends and family to only call them in case of emergencies, and put the phone in a drawer away from them, or even better, in a different room, or have a colleague at work keep it away from them.
Last example, for people like me who often want to take notes on the go, there are apps where we can dictate whatever and have the voice convert into text, this might seem like a silly simple thing, but it’s amazing, and it saves time and effort.
Better solutions can be found all the time, and for anything, sometimes we just need to invest some time into researching and having better time and resources management.
Learning new things and from different sources makes us more creative and better at problem-solving.
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Conclusion (summary).
Stop having a hellish awful bias from your social media, improve it or just stop using them and do something better with that time and energy.
Agree on definitions, know what you’re talking about, make sure others do too.
Don’t rely on possessions and money to be happy.
Take the time to improve different aspects of your life, one by one.
#social media#health#philosophy#mental health#job#work#creativity#creative writing#cognitive biases#bias#discussion#debate#talk#definition#happiness#ergonomics#bigger picture#britney is free
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I am so over meaningless sex. I need more. Where I’m trying to go in life “sneaky links” will only prolong my goals.
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When he speaks of “reality” the layman usually means something obvious and well-known, whereas it seems to me that precisely the most important and extremely difficult task of our time is to work on elaborating a new idea of reality. This is also what I mean when I always emphasize that science and religion must be related in some way.
Wolfgang Pauli, letter to M. Fierz, August 12, 1948
#reality#truths#knowledge#feeling#thinking#understanding#levels of consciousness#greater reality#bigger picture#transition#paradigm shift#science#spirituality#philosophy#religion#nature#cosmology
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i do feel like i have some sort of different view of chris and joshs relationship than a lot of people but i think it's because i view their entire friendship sort of built around the experience of being like the two REALLY neurodigergent kids in school and being the only two who KNOW what being neurodivergent is unlike the rest of the group who have symptoms and are unaware. and it becomes a very them vs the world sort of thing, which is why i think everything becomes so devastating and warped after the prank. that was the first time it wasn't them vs the world. it was the washingtons vs everyone else. not only did chris turn his back on josh for likely one of the first times, he also turned his back on the other washingtons, joshs favorite people in the whole world. but so much of their friendship beforehand to me is based off of the fact that they are the only two people they feel like they can open up to, or really experience the world with, due to their matching issues.
#to me theyre toxic in the 'we are so insanely codependent from childhood we cant handle being apart'#and then chris is the one who forces them apart. i dont even think he thought about it like that. can you imagine the regret he must feel?#the confusion and frustration both of them have? chris not understanding why josh cant see the bigger picture#vs josh feeling hurt that chris wants to focus on the bigger picture that dxoesnt exist to him. this is real and it hurts NOW. there is no#bigger picture#txt
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I mean isn’t it enough?
Walking, breathing, living, existing?
Isn’t our existence enough?
We are a rough sketch in this picture perfect painting of life. Why stress so much?
You are enough
#you’re enough#enough#living#existing#existence#poet#bigger picture#stress#artoftheday#art#painting#rough sketch#life
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Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.
Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
#alain de botton#status anxiety#philosophy#existentialism#bigger picture#eternity#smallness#anxiety#agitation
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I feel like you take a piece of my soul every time I see you
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We all play a part of a bigger picture, some just don’t know it, cause their too busy living a beautiful crazy life.
We all want to be madly and sanely in love, but also healthy and peacefully in love
If you open your heart up to possibilities, you’ll be amazed of what you’ll discover.
There is all kinds of different love in the world, but never the same love twice.
Those that have found love, believed they could, and so they did! 💘
Spiritual Art by Mexican Artist Octavio O’Campo
#bigger picture#living#beautiful#crazy#life#madly#sanely#in love#healthy#peacefully#open your heart#possibilities#be amazed#discover#love#world#celestial bodies#spiritual#art#artist#octavio ocampo#angels#astrology#namaste#amor#relationships#couples#heaven#together forever#always and forever
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What would you have told your child to motivate/prepare them for the upcoming journey?
-Make peace with your past
-Everything that is to come is all based on the choices you make
-Step back, see the bigger picture
-don’t act so irrationally, choose with a leveled and calm head
-Life is hard, but you are hardheaded, strong beyond belief, and have the willpower to push back against your challenges
-You’re going to feel lost and confused but when the fog clears you’ll remember “got this” and “you’ll be okay”
-Stop doubting yourself, there’s nothing you can’t overcome
-Only you can take back your power
-Lead with resilience and tenacity
-Don’t you dare settle!
#my stuff#my thoughts#my feelings#reality check#realization#do better#reminder#self reminder#self reflection#journal prompts#motivation#bigger picture
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Me no post for aesthetics that’s just something that comes along with how RAW I AM
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We all live in our little world & are blind of the bigger picture that is taking place. If we would look outside ourselves we would see patterns in what is happening in the world. Sure I admit I look at the economic of the world, the media what they are preaching, what the education system is teaching, the conflicts that are happening around the world, the scientific advancements, weather, what mind control techniques that are being put in place, the lies that are being sprouted on, & so many other areas. I guess being analytical & very observant of all matter of things in life can be every rewarding because you become aware of the pain of the world.
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Society is frustrating. Society when it comes to relationships is a whole other later of frustrating. Of course, I have to be talking about THE Taylor Swift and THE Travis Kelce. How can I not! Their alleged love story has literally been force fed to me through a tube, through every media outlet known to mankind for the past month. If you havent heard if either one of them before, congratulations, now you have.
Random thoughts tonight include:
1) every person I kiss, I am not “with” or dating. Thats on strong friendships and stronger boundaries within ACTUAL relationships.
2) NOBODY knows the inner workings of their day to day lives. NOBODY knows what they label themselves as, but themselves. One of my partners, her partner is Quills. Thats it. Thats her label. WE know what we mean to eachother… and that is all that matters. She isnt my girlfriend, by label.. but if we were to base commitment on a label…. I mean- whatever… she still isnt my girlfriend.
3) The number of straight people, that are OBSESSED with the sex live of these two is absolutely disgusting. We have NO IDEA what their personal relationship is with sex. I am a hard core demi sexual… I dont engage in anything sexual with a person until i really get to know them. No bar hookups for me. Gross. So read about people OPENLY SAYING that Taylor is going to spend the day with Travis and have her insides arranged by him…. And that’s romantic?!?! Yet,,, EVERY DAY.. its the Gaylors, who might think that she can love women…. They are the invasive ones. I dont get the double standards.
Writing this out in long form helps me process. Character limits suck. I apologize for the train of thought.
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Selfies Of The Soul
“Whose arms are the longest?” The question was legitimate; we wanted to take a picture of our small group where we’d all be in it.
Our friend, David, not only had the longest arms but the moxie to be the one to take the picture.
We crowded around him, bobbing here and there to get our faces in focus, to find a space in the mix where the littles could be as easily seen as the bigs.
Laughing the…
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#Bible#bigger picture#bowling#Corrie Ten Boom#Dayle Rogers#God#hope and joy#Jesus#King David#memories#pain#pain and regret#regret#selfies#Selfies Of The Soul#Tip of My Iceberg#wounds
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The best thing to do when life gets tough is to take 15 minutes to yourself and reflect. You’ll be able to see the bigger picture.
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