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Practicing Mindfulness

  💆Mindfulness is you catching yourself in the moment, not drifting into the past, not stressing about the future, just being right here, right now. It's awareness, but soft. Attention, but not forceful. No judgment. No fixing. Just noticing. It’s when I stop running and actually feel my breath. When I don’t push my feelings down, I sit with them. When I let things be what they are, even me. ☺What does it mean? 💬Mindfulness is the practice of paying full attention to the present moment with nonjudgmental awareness. It’s about noticing your thoughts, feelings, and sensations as they are, without trying to change or avoid them. It’s not zoning out, it’s zoning in.  “Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.” (Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1994) 💬 The art of mindfulness has roots in ancient Eastern spiritual traditions, especially                Buddhism, where it’s called s...

Decidedly NOT in survival mode?

⁡ 💭👀Have you noticed your nervous system is stuck in fight or flight mode, freeze mode, or fawn mode due to chronic stress, trauma, or overwhelm?. It could indicate that you live in survival mode,  it happens when your body and mind are constantly focused on getting through the day and not thriving, just surviving.   💬 This basically means your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are controlled by a constant sense of danger leaving you disconnected, exhausted, and reactive. In survival mode, the brain prioritizes threat detection over logic and long-term thinking, flooding the body with stress hormones and impairing focus, memory, and decision making (Marvar & Liberzon, 2022). ❤Signs you live in survival mode: 🧡You feel overwhelmed, emotionally disconnected, constantly on edge, and trapped in overthinking, self-doubt, and fear that you’re always falling behind. 🧡 Your body is tense, exhausted, and restless, often stuck in a cycle of poor sleep, unexplained pain, and hyp...

Economic Instability and Your Psychology

Current situation and psychological Effects The persistance of gross economic misconduct and mismanagement can lead to longterm psychological effects on a population, including chronic stress, learned helplessness, depression, anxiety, loss of trust in institutions, leading to a survival first mindset and generational trauma. These effects alter individual wellbeing and collective mental health, often becoming entrenched even after economic recovery. This mismanagement and instability causes inadequacies in the lives of people conditioning them to expect less, dream less, make short term plans as a result of conflicts and economic fluctuations that interrupt peace and national security. Economic mismanagement does not just damage markets it breaks minds (Wagland & Taylor, 2021).   Economic instability and mismangement psychologically preconditions its survivors to develop deepseated internalized beliefs that restrict how they see themselves, their abilities, and what is pos...

About Financial Security

  What does it mean? Financial security means having stable and consistent income, it also means the ability to meet basic needs such as food, housing, healthcare, electricity, internet, emergency savings, and a plan for the future (vacation, retirement). This security affords us more life choices; being able to afford standard education, travel, quality healthcare and maintaining resilience against unexpected events like job loss, illness, and other financial emergencies. It is less about being rich and more about predictability, control, and freedom. All of which psychologically impacts our lives.   Living in a capitalist society means everything costs money, and since a capitalist system prioritizes having capital, cost of living such as affording a house in a clean and organized community requires a certain level of income, even affording food requires money, adequate healthcare requires more money, basic amenities such as water and electricity and as if not unbearable eno...

In this vessel

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The Vessel of the Mind Here in this vessel A hundred billion neurons forming one hundred trillion connections contained within Incredible as it is,  y et still just one vessel, or not? What do I do with this incredibly boundless software   Certainly not limit this potential by living a purposeless existence.   Oh how unsatisfactory it is feeling stuck and utterly discontent, but what can I do? Im age: Shutterstock     Limitations Physically, I can only move a limited distance, but in my head, I travel. I see you, I see us, and it is beautiful. I do wonder though: If everything we see and perceive is subject to perspectives and we say that life is painful, then isn't that just how we choose to see it? Isn't that our chosen perspective, and we live and exist the way we beleive it? Bound by limitations we created, boundaries set by us. Ever wondered how much this chosen perspective affects the quality of our experiences? everyday fam.    Image: ...

Organised Existence

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  I want an organised existence and that I shall get. Organised existence, a concept I have pondered, for I have lived within the bounds of imposed limitations rather than defined rules.  Imposed limitations not of my own making, were borrowed from the perspectives of society, allowing external views to shape my boundaries and confine my potential. I do acknowledge the time spent on pursuits that may not have been the most fruitful; Yet in my defense, my actions were guided by the knowledge I had at the time. It is a curious spectacle, observing how we all navigate similar phases and emotions, albeit under different guises and circumstances, each handling these universal experiences in our distinct ways. Observing life unfold around us, a mosaic of existence where each individual follows their unique path, marked by the passage of time. I find myself an observer, alive and questioning my purpose, as if my role were merely to witness the lives of others quietly noticing pattern...

New Orleans Dreams

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  I could swear I was meant to be from a generationally wealthy family from a beautiful town in New Orleans. My worst problem being that my parents are too busy for me. I would have a charming personality, very extroverted and most importantly… free!  Generational wealth; meaning none of these ‘modern’ buildings. I would live in a mansion, one with secret rooms, huge bedrooms and a life sized library. I could’ve been from England too, not necessarily royal but definitely wealthy. I would have access to original books from whatever author I desired, I would understand and connect to the minds that created Harry Potter and Peter Pan. But here I am, neither in New Orleans nor in England, yet my dreams persist, ever so fervently. I find myself often wandering in the realms of what ifs, the grandeur of imagined wealth and the opulence of a life unbound by financial constraints. In my mind, I host lavish parties in my ancestral mansion, the kind where the laughter never fades and th...