FLOWTIMIST

A space to share meaningful reminders and beauty.

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Looking for a clinical job while listening to this. : ) Just random sharing during my 5-mins #Pomodoro break.

[apveng]

Benefits for Humanity: After the Storm

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On Writing, Sharing, and Blogging: A Respectful Response to an Old Friend

On Writing, Sharing, and Blogging: A Respectful Response to an Old Friend

Dear friend,

I have a sort of dispute with a friend, a well meaning friend, a dear friend. He says blogging is beneath me. He also made me think harder about what’s my true goal with writing: expressing myself, being read, creating quality content, sending a message? Yet blogging is dear to me. Blogging is a way out. It’s my window into writing. Hey, it might even be my crutch because it’s the…

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Life is about this bullshit.

[homet0wn]

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hahah nice one. Conquer the Inner Critic. 

[souhailbog-deactivated20240510]

Meeting of the Kings By Paul Zizka

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This is why Dr. Peterson says “Do not bother children when they are skateboarding.”  What a fun and awesome skill to have. 

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Don’t let your struggle become your identity.

Sober Recovery (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

Disengage.

[flowtimist]

Here's to the ongoing grind of sitting with hard feelings, the inescapable discomfort inherent to experiencing consciousness, and encountering the dreaded unknown. Here’s to unstructured time, disconnection, loneliness, self-doubt, a sense of unlovability, hopelessness.  Welcome it, welcome it all. Let it hit you like a crashing wave of helplessness. Let the catastrophe of your life crush your soul. Don’t fight it. Dare to feel it.

Bring on the full darkness. Live it. Watch it unfold like a storm that spawns from within yourself. Watch it carefully. Be in it. Experience.it. 

And bring it out. Sing in a wretched voice. Punch the emptiness with futile, pathetic weakness. Don’t be afraid of the fall. When you fall, fall apart.

Then, when you are ready, when the unnamed feelings that weigh down your soul have found some expression, some release, pick yourself back up slowly.

Be glad you weathered another storm. And you can do this again and again. Your withstanding capability is unbounded. 

In time it will subside -whatever it is that grips, chases, disrupts, disconnects, and ails your heart. In time the confusion and heartache will transform into order and clarity, even wisdom. In time, it will all come together. 

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@healing-phoenix

Ok, so how do you heal or get better from this? Here’s how I’m doing it:

Optimism: Practice positive self-talk and having positive expectations

Validation: validate your feelings and that of others

Know thyself: who are you? where are you going? With whom?

Build the life you want: school, education, home, finance, etc.

Vulnerabity: Watch Brene Brown’s TedTalk, “The Power of Vulnerability”

Therapy: get a counselor and sign up for long-term counseling

Study: Ongoing, personal psychological investigation

Independence: learn to live on your own

Interdependence: Realize the vital importance of relationships and learn to make new friends before getting into a relationship.

Develop self-empathy and self-compassion

Get out of your comfort zone: do what you want and scares you

Write: Reflect on your day on a journal

Deep breathing: learn to activate the relaxation response

Meditation: Start meditation and join a meditation group

Community: join a group that resonates with you deeply

Psychoespiritual maturation: commit to a spiritual practice

Purpose: set a challenging direction in your life that makes you grown and justifies your existence

Presence: practice being in the here and now through the whole day

Moral-effort: sustain your intention to live ethically and morally

Basically, learn to live by self-care. Honor thyself and others.

[just-shower-thoughts]

Because the Earth is round, running away from something is also running towards it from reeeaaally far away.

[flowtimist]

Beautiful. There’s no use running away from anything. I’ve been telling you.  Sit with your self, your feelings, your experience. Acknowledge it. Process it. Deal with it. Other wise, is just more work and risk for you and everyone else.

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I've always said people can change -if they want to. If the consequences of their actions make them look hard enough at what they've done to others and themselves.

It's important to note that behind all the hateful actions of many, there's suffering: lack of belonging, lack of love, lack of identity, ignorance, and abuse. You know, the whole psychology of the bully.

Think about it. If harm has befallen you, you'll likely to do harm if left unchecked. 

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers." - Carl Jung

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Years ago, I came up with an almost identical model of steps for personal growth that lead to similar outcomes. I wonder if I tapped into an archetypal pattern of self-growth. Fascinating. 

If anyone can share the source of this image, it will be greatly appreciated.

[thecalminside]

“When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You’re able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently.”

Pema Chödrön

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That´s nice.