#stress-management

[quotelr]

Are you comfortable and willing to be of service to others, but find it difficult to receive the same in return? Why are people so quick to resist receiving, even when they need the help? Your ability to receive not only opens the space for great things to enter your life, but it returns a gift of grace to the giver.

Susan C. Young

[wanderwrite]

How to maintain mental health and balance in the age of information overload?

Rather than aspiring to be talented or excellent, my goal is to be a happy person.

Happiness is an internal pursuit, while talent and excellence are often outwardly directed. Shifting from outward validation to internal exploration has been a profoundly transformative experience for me.

When we focus solely on external factors and strive to attain them, we may become addicted to the resources they offer and to the attention they bring. We label ourselves as successful according to societal standards, and eventually, this behavior can turn against us, leaving us feeling unable to progress any further. Our hidden anxieties, stresses, loneliness, emotional fluctuations, and negative emotions may surface and we may struggle to find a peaceful way to cope with them. This may lead to self-attacks, self-disgust, and an underlying sense of anxiety and tension that constantly lingers within us.

Now, my perspective has been utterly transformed. No longer do I yearn to embrace a future, idealized version of myself, but instead I endeavor to understand, accept, and love the flawed, real, and present me, who is equally deserving of affection.

Though temporal freedom, financial freedom, or even spatial freedom may be laudable pursuits, it is the freedom of energy that represents the pinnacle of true liberation - I seek vitality and joy that is enduring.

What follows is a compilation of personal methods that I have found to be effective in rebuilding my shattered self. These methods include securing a healthy environment, establishing a personalized system of life, grounding myself in the present moment, and expressing my insights through writing - from action to perception to articulation.

1.Protecting Your Information Sources

The environment has a significant impact on shaping who we are as individuals. We are products of our surroundings, and our self-perception largely stems from the information sources and social circles we encounter in our daily lives.

During a Google talk, psychologist Kahneman was asked how to exercise reason in a world manipulated by advertising. His answer was roughly, "Don't expose yourself to these toxic environments. Our intuition and instincts, or what he calls 'System 1,' are powerful and unconscious, always running until we are fooled or manipulated into thinking we are better than we actually are."

Social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook easily inflate our egos and fuel our desires. When we see those tempting lifestyles or others' expansive worldviews, we often experience emotions such as envy, longing, and even jealousy, which can lead to self-doubt and dissatisfaction.

Of course, having desires is not necessarily a bad thing, and it can bring about a surge in motivation. However, it's essential to match our desires with our current energy levels. When my energy is low, I try to avoid browsing through social media and instead focus on expressing myself in a more niche community.

In recent months, I've taken the initiative to isolate myself from information overload. I spend a fixed amount of time reading each day, exploring a more complex world with unfamiliar experiences and broader perspectives. This type of deep reading stimulates deeper thinking and leads to spiritual freedom.

Therefore, we must ask ourselves: what constitutes truly exceptional content?

The answer is simple: an excellent work withstands the test of time, not just fleeting trends. As people's aesthetic and value systems change over time, superior works retain their value and significance across different eras and backgrounds.

2.Building a Stable Life System

A stable life system begins in the early morning, when a large amount of energy is stored.

James Clear, in his best-selling book "Atomic Habits," has said: "Forget about the goals, focus on systems instead." Work is generally energy-consuming, because there is a lot of "ineffective" communication.

Recharge yourself every morning, accept that your body and mind cannot sustain continuous operation, and treat your body well without self-torture or self-exhaustion. The key actions in the morning are nourishing with reading, writing, and exercise, which bring internal drive, persistence, reading, self-control, solitude, early rising, resilience, and mindfulness.

In this process, truly feel the "existence of self," and be with yourself to find happiness. Slowly let go of external demands, external dependencies, and external control. Stay away from social media, establish your own system according to your own order, achieve real efficiency, and start a new day.

Create yourself as a guide. If there is one thing I have learned about happiness, it is that building order in daily life is the true art of self-management.

3.Maintain a sensitivity that is in tune with life.

Oscar Wilde once said: "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Existence is a result, while living is a state of being. Therefore, I have spent a lot of time learning and experiencing what it means to truly "feel alive". To "feel alive" is to have a vivid and lively energy flowing within oneself. This energy brings me inspiration for creativity, curiosity for new things, a desire to explore the world, and the ability to act with efficiency and decisiveness.

When you wake up each day, instead of waiting to see what the day brings, decide from within what kind of day you want to have. You need to consciously choose how to spend your time, what activities to engage in, and with whom to build connections. Keep an open mind to all possibilities of existence, explore yourself and the world around you, and experience true joy, satisfaction, and meaning.

When I was young, I believed that emotions were more important than work and life. After graduation, I thought work was more important than emotions and life. However, now I believe that life is more important than work and emotions. Here, "life" is just a medium, and its core is about experiencing and learning new knowledge for self-education.

No matter how many setbacks I encounter in both work and relationships, I can always find the power and energy of self-healing from life. Starting from personal experience, I observe, reflect, and creatively construct the small world around us, and transcend myself through self-exploration.

Conclusion：I aspire to gradually establish an inner order that will prevent me from projecting negative subjective feelings onto external information, and instead enable me to actively absorb the energy from external information that can enrich and fulfill my inner world.

From now on, my striving will no longer be directed towards meeting external expectations from parents or society, but towards embodying the values that resonate deeply within me.

[coachingcasestudy]

Navigating the Storm: Stress Management Techniques for Career Resilience

In the tempestuous seas of professional advancement, where the winds of competition howl and the waves of uncertainty loom large, mastering the art of stress management becomes your beacon of light. For young teenagers embarking on their first job hunt, startup owners battling the storms of entrepreneurship, young professionals navigating the currents of career progression, and mid-level managers…

[vykerr]

I was watching a video on youtube from an Australian current affairs documentary type program, when I was suddenly blindsided by this screen.

[thebibliosphere]

I was talking on the phone to my mother earlier about how it looks like I'm possibly heading into very early perimenopause, and she agreed that was likely seen as how she had her last kid at 38 (same age as me) and then immediately went straight into menopause. Her body just shut up shop like no thank you, we are not doing that again.

And I was kinda joking with her like, wow, must be nice to have not had a period for 36 years, and she kinda laughed, then said, "Yeah. Except for that time when it came back when I was about 50," and I was like oh, wild, I didn't know about that, what did the doctor say and she was like, "Doctor?"

And that's when I had to be like, what do you mean you never went to the doctor when your period randomly came back after 12 years????

"Is that bad?"

Is that... MUM.

Anyway. I spent my afternoon explaining to my 74-year-old mother that you're not supposed to get your period again after you hit menopause, and if you do, it can be a warning sign that something else is going on, like a fibroid or cancer, and she should probably go to the doctor. Which, good news, I guess, she's already going because she's had a pain in her stomach for a while.

How long?

Oh, y'know. On and off. For about twenty years.

[animatedtext]

[clownsuu]

my apolocheese for not posting lately, life has decided to turn 180 (again) and I have had very little time to draw and do other personal things 😔🥄

[criminaljusticemark]

Emotional Intelligence and Policing

[karalovesallthegirls]

Also have another “first words spoken to you are on your skin” soulmate AU idea where Kara is a journalist assigned to shadow the controversial CEO of L-Corp for the day. It’s a big deal for her to get this assignment, so of course she trips the second she’s near the other woman and tries awkwardly to redeem herself.

The CEO stares at her almost in shock, and then says nothing. At all. Ever, for the entire day.

Kara spends hours following Lena Luthor around trying to fill the silence, but no amount of questions get her to talk. Lena almost seems to be running away at some points - like she’s trying to lose her? - and the few times she’s managed to catch her actually talking to someone she goes silent the second she sees Kara.

She asks around if Miss Luthor is usually like this and everyone looks at her like she’s crazy. Apparently she’s the only one who gets the silent treatment. By the end of her first day shadowing she’s walking away with half a page of observations and not a single quote. Miss Grant is going to kill her.

But that’s okay. It’s fine, this isn’t over. She has four days of shadowing ahead of her and she’ll be damned if she doesn’t finish this with a quote from the woman herself. It’s only a matter of time.

[shadowednavi]

it's been awhile since I've worked on this project! I've had this verse finished for months but didn't want to post it on its own, and instead wait until the whole thing is strung together to show the final result all at once. But I'm tired of holding onto it, so here is one section of my deltarune animation! My art tag has other clips if anyone is interested in seeing more~

(song: "The Hymn of Axciom" by Vienna Teng)

[jkvjimin]

(155/∞) the perfect nose for butterflies to land on it ♡

[hopetorun]

if you do more than one just pick the one you do most often! (for instance i'm a sound off girl except for occasionally when i'm a game off refreshing the app nonstop girl)

[ren-144p]

something about the first few episodes of the terror having so many numbers. the men, the provisions, the inventory; but also the tension of counting. the scene where goodsir takes a picture of john franklin and his men and he's counting down the seconds. the lashes being counted down during hickey's punishment. and something about how in later episodes, numbers get lost. dates get forgotten. counting just stops. all of it becomes insignificant. like it was a countdown at first but now the time is just running out instead

[vodid]

zero's pressure

[tzarrz]

to all people who said PART 1 made them laugh - i lov u 💗 this is for u

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

18 Ways to Manage Anxiety as an Autistic Person…

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