So take care of your mind, but also take care of your body. Don't be treating your body like crap and expect you can only will yourself into acting better.
So take care of your mind, but also take care of your body. Don't be treating your body like crap and expect you can only will yourself into acting better.
For most stimuli, our strongest emotional reactions are to our thoughts about the stimulus, rather than the stimulus itself.
A better application of willpower is to reject and replace the thoughts that lead to those emotions. Over time those thoughts are replaced entirely and the emotional reaction is changed.
Humanity has produced a great deal of knowledge on how to live well. Modern society is just too distracted to learn about it.
That being said, I think some positive change can be produced with diligence and care, even if the methods and details are hazy even to the person enacting them.
I do not want to know how they turned this into a double blind study.
She's sometimes telling me how it was bad at work because someone disagreed with the treatment of some 22 year old that got shot in the stomach and I'm like dying inside.
That really hit home. Thanks for the link.
One and the other, together in harmony. Nothing is above anything. Separation is learned, it's a useful concept, but it's not necessarily natural.
- Benjamin Franklin