Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 day agoHow to Embrace Being "More" Spiritual
Awareness of the transcendent reveals depth and meaning in life, fostering spiritual growth and a sense of oneness with the world.
#intentional-gatherings
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fromDaily Mom magazine
4 days agoSpecial Needs Summer Camp For Children, Special Needs Camp
Special needs summer camps are specialized programs designed for children and young adults with a range of disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ADHD, Down syndrome, and other developmental or physical challenges.
Parenting
fromSilicon Canals
5 hours agoI spent a decade building a career I thought I wanted, a house I thought I needed, and a persona I thought would finally make me real - and one Saturday morning over coffee I sat with the quiet certainty that I had built all of it for someone who no longer lived inside me - Silicon Canals
When the person you're pretending to be gets too heavy to carry, you realize that the mask you've worn for so long has become your actual face.
Retirement
#happiness
Writing
fromSilicon Canals
10 hours agoI'm 66 and I spent four decades chasing the version of happiness I saw in other people's living rooms - and the day I stopped, I noticed I'd been happy in my own kitchen all along - Silicon Canals
Measuring happiness against others' lives leads to perpetual dissatisfaction and obscures personal contentment.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
9 hours agoThere's a specific kind of tiredness that has nothing to do with sleep. It comes from years of translating yourself into a version that other people could handle, and the exhaustion lives in the gap between who you are and who you've been performing so consistently that even you forgot there was a difference. - Silicon Canals
Workplace burnout often stems from the exhaustion of pretending to be someone you're not, rather than from overwork itself.
#empathy
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoResearch suggests people who feel more empathy for dogs than humans aren't broken - their empathy is fully intact, it's just been directed toward the only available recipient that has never weaponized it, and a person whose empathy has been weaponized enough times eventually stops handing it to anyone who could do it again - Silicon Canals
Empathy can be selective, often directed more towards animals than humans due to psychological and biological factors.
Non-profit organizations
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
2 days agoHow Dissolving Your Nonprofit Can Strengthen the Sector | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Nonprofit leaders must sometimes choose to dissolve organizations intentionally rather than forcing survival in a weakened state.
fromMetro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly
3 days agoDoKnow & DaHawmies in San Jose | Metro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly
DoKnow, born Daniel Lopez in Los Angeles, is a comedian who torpedoed the glass ceiling by podcasting his relatable, laid-back way of looking at the world.
Podcast
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
20 hours agoYou know a woman has lost her joy in life when she describes her days accurately and without feeling - when the words are all correct and the tone is completely flat and the account of her own life sounds like something being reported rather than lived, and she doesn't notice the flatness because she has been inside it long enough that it just sounds like how things are - Silicon Canals
Emotional flatness can creep in, making life feel like a series of tasks rather than meaningful experiences.
fromFast Company
1 day agoWhat to do after a life-defining mistake
The only thing worse than making a mistake is keeping it bottled up inside. Learning from the mistakes of others could help you embark on the healing journey of sharing and working through a mistake of your own, with someone you trust.
Books
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoI'm 66 and I spent forty years trying to stay positive through everything - and what I actually created was a life where nobody knew me well enough to notice when I was drowning - Silicon Canals
Staying positive can lead to hidden struggles and emotional isolation, as individuals often mask their true feelings to appear strong.
fromwww.businessinsider.com
3 days agoI was laid off twice from the same company. The second time was a gut punch but taught me not to take cuts personally.
When the CEO held a virtual town hall in 2020 and said there needed to be layoffs, I knew I would be one of the first to go because I served zero purpose at that point.
Marketing
Design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
3 days agoBiomimetic Architecture Reaches New Heights With This Bird-of-Paradise Yoga Space - Yanko Design
Thilina Liyanage's architecture translates animal gestures into functional designs, exemplified by the Rifle Bird Yogashala inspired by the Victoria's riflebird's courtship display.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
21 hours agoI retired at 64 with a generous pension and a calendar full of plans - and by month three I was staring at my phone realizing I had nobody to call just to talk, not because I needed something - Silicon Canals
Retirement can lead to unexpected loneliness and a realization of the lack of genuine friendships built outside of work.
fromPsychology Today
3 days agoPartnership on the Spiritual Path
Devon Hase states, 'People are trying desperately to fix, optimize, or escape their way out of relationship difficulty - and suffering more for the effort. Social media has made this worse! We're surrounded by images of perfect partnerships while quietly drowning in our own ordinary struggles.' This highlights the pressure couples feel in the age of social media.
Mindfulness
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoI'm 66 and I finally learned the hardest lesson isn't that people will disappoint you - it's that you'll disappoint yourself by pretending you don't need what you need until you forget what that even was - Silicon Canals
Neglecting emotional needs leads to a profound sense of loss and disconnection from oneself and others.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoI hated small talk for thirty years because I thought it was shallow - until I noticed that every meaningful relationship I've ever had started with a conversation about the weather, a shared queue, or a throwaway comment that neither of us expected to lead anywhere - Silicon Canals
Small talk serves as a gateway to deeper conversations and meaningful relationships, contrary to the belief that it is shallow and pointless.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology suggests people who downplay their birthday don't want less - they want the specific thing most birthdays have never delivered, which is the felt sense of being genuinely celebrated rather than obligatorily acknowledged, and they stopped asking for it because stopping felt better than hoping and being let down again - Silicon Canals
Some people avoid celebrating birthdays due to feelings of disconnection from superficial acknowledgments.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoI recently understood that the tiredness I had been blaming on everything else - the job, the age, the schedule, the season - was not tiredness at all, it was the specific and sustained effort of living a life that wasn't quite mine, and the moment I understood that the exhaustion had a name it became possible, for the first time, to do something about it - Silicon Canals
Exhaustion often stems from emotional labor and the effort to maintain a false persona rather than physical demands of work.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says the most important life lesson isn't learning to make better decisions - it's learning to live peacefully with the ones you can't undo - Silicon Canals
Irreversible choices shape our lives and learning to coexist with them is crucial for mental well-being.
fromYoga Journal
2 weeks agoWTF Is a Wellness Festival? An Antidote to Loneliness, Apparently.
A true wellness gathering is something far more ancient and far more urgent: it's any intentional space where humans are invited to arrive whole, body, mind, spirit, and leave more alive than when they walked in. That's it. That's the whole definition.
Yoga
Philosophy
fromWarpweftandway
2 weeks agoTwo Collaborative Learning () Events This Week
The 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project hosts two free public events: Louise Edwards discussing childhood and gender in China on March 19, and Peter Hershock exploring AI and agency from a Buddhist perspective on March 20.
#friendship
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoPsychology says the most isolating part of retirement isn't being alone - it's realizing that most of your relationships were held together by proximity, routine, and utility, not genuine curiosity about who you are - Silicon Canals
Most relationships are maintained by physical proximity rather than genuine connection, a truth that becomes evident in retirement.
#kindness
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoI'm 37 and I realized I wasn't actually a good person the day my wife said "you're kind to strangers and cruel to the people closest to you" - and the worst part wasn't the accusation, it was that I couldn't argue because I'd been using up all my patience on people who didn't matter and coming home empty - Silicon Canals
Kindness should be abundant at home, not rationed for public interactions, to foster authentic connections with loved ones.
Books
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks agoI attended a weekend reading retreat in my 60s. Surrounded by women of all ages, I learned more than I'd ever imagined.
A weekend reading retreat in the Catskill Mountains brought together eight women of different ages who bonded through book discussions, meditation, hiking, and meaningful conversations about life and intentional living.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoPsychology says the people who actually escape loneliness don't do it by finding more people - they do it by finally dropping the version of themselves that made real connection impossible in the first place - Silicon Canals
Loneliness stems from a lack of genuine connection, not merely from being alone or having many acquaintances.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoI used to be unhappy and I blamed everything around me - until I realized I'd built an entire life around avoiding the one conversation I needed to have with myself - Silicon Canals
Unhappiness often stems from avoiding self-reflection and attributing life issues to external factors rather than personal choices.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPeople who keep their circle small aren't antisocial. They genuinely learned that intimacy and popularity are opposing forces, even though loneliness occasionally shows up as the cost of admission - Silicon Canals
Intimacy and popularity are competing pursuits; small social circles reflect a natural structure of human relationships, not a failure of social development.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoI'm 66 and the thing I learned too late isn't that I should have traveled more or worked less - it's that I spent forty years waiting for permission to want things - Silicon Canals
Waiting for permission to want things can lead to missed opportunities and unfulfilled desires.
Mindfulness
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks agoMy depression felt creatively expansive. Now I've overcome it, how do I keep the meaningful parts? | Leading questions
Depression creates a false sense of depth and truth through darkness, but intensity and authenticity exist equally in joy, love, and light as they do in despair.
fromSocial Media Explorer
1 month agoDo Mental Health Retreats Allow Social Media Access? - Social Media Explorer
The question of whether mental health retreats allow social media access does not have a universal answer. Different facilities approach digital connectivity in varying ways, reflecting their treatment philosophies and therapeutic goals. Most mental health retreats limit or completely restrict social media use during the initial phases of treatment, though specific policies can range from total digital detox to supervised access at designated times.
Mental health
fromYoga Journal
1 month ago5 Good News Items-Because We All Need Them
Remaining present in the modern world includes noticing the good. We're not talking toxic positivity here. We're referring to a simple commitment to also noticing what's good in the world even as you navigate what's not. Whether you find these reminders burrowed in a news story, the feeling of being on your mat or out on a run, or the eyes of a loved one doesn't matter. Noticing them does.
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