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Category Archives: self & ego
The Meditator #happiness #
With spring comes awakening. Creativity buds and blossoms together with crocuses, cherry trees and daffodils. I can’t draw so I create collages. This one is called The Meditator. In meditation there is an exercise where you imagine that you are … Continue reading
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Tagged art therapy, collage, earth, happiness, happy, meditation, meditator, nomad, universe
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Rescued by spring
Thank you, my dear spring, For dropping by so early Or even just on time. For joy and hope you bring, For sunshine and for smiles. For filling me with light. For saving me from cold Those dark and empty … Continue reading
My guide to happiness – this is what it ultimately boils down to
This is a big post for me. I wanted to summarise everything I learned about happiness. I attempted to distill it to a couple of words, concepts. It took years to get here. It took some thinking, time and several … Continue reading
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Tagged create, death, happiness, happy, let go, love, mindfulness, nomad, present, universe
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Rejection therapy as a way to get unstuck #happiness
This guy is amazing and what he did is awesome. We can all benefit from rejection therapy, or even from just being aware of what we think and feel when we are rejected or think we will be. Perhaps being … Continue reading
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Tagged happiness, jia jiang, life calling, nomad, rejection, stuck, ted talk, therapy
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Ego vs Self from The War of Art by Steven Pressfield #happiness
Here’s what the Ego believes: 1) Death is real. The Ego believes that our existence is defined by our physical flesh. When the body dies, we die. There is no life beyond life. 2) Time and space are real. The … Continue reading
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Tagged death, ego, god, happiness, happy, love, nomad, oneness, self & ego, universe
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Blogging 101 – going back to the roots, and what’s next for this blog #writing
WordPress are doing this new programme Blogging 101. I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now but we always learn, right, so I am taking part. It’s great that they are helping new bloggers get on the platform, although … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, blogging101, happiness, happy, nomad, universe, writing
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Love crushes, obsessions, poetry… Rejection vs self love (Part 3) #happiness
Step over denial and face the music. The music of the night, the dark side of your soul where shadows of your fears drown in tears of your sorrows. Revel in rejection, let it wrap you into an icy mist … Continue reading
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Tagged accept, crush, fear, happiness, happy, let go, loneliness, lonely, love, nomad, obsession, rejection, universe
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‘Tis the season to take stock of what you have achieved #happiness #christmas
In the next two weeks everyone – from brands to people, from politicians to entertainers – will be taking stock of 2015 and thinking about 2016. What have I accomplished? Where am I going, and what’s next? This year I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, christmas, happiness, new year, nomad, universe, video & film, youtube
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Resistance may explain the circular pattern you can’t seem to break #happiness
Do you sometimes feel like you are stubbornly repeating the same pattern in your life, eg jumping between jobs, people, places, where each scenario ends similarly to the previous one, and you understand that this is not working out, that you … Continue reading
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Tagged analysis, behaviour, conflict, emotion, fair, happiness, happy, ideals, nomad, resistance, stubborn, universe, values
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Where do I belong? #happiness
The team I am in at the moment is not the friendliest bunch, at least to the newcomers. Everyone is polite of course but there is not much caring or bonding going on. Everyone to their own means. We went … Continue reading
Embracing uncertainty #happiness
I finally embraced uncertainty. I used to be a control freak losing temper if things were not going my way. Still am, long road ahead but I see first promising signs of progress. I stopped trying to predict (obsessively think … Continue reading
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Tagged happiness, happy, nomad, surrender, uncertainty, universe
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Surrender… to progress #happiness
I surrender. I am not moving from where I live (blossom where planted, right). I am not going to find yet another job that will no doubt be so much better, and will rather make the one I already have … Continue reading
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Tagged forgive, growth, happiness, liberate, nomad, personal, progress, self improvement, surrender, universe
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Love crushes, obsessions, poetry… How to start reframing a love crush (Part 2)
In my recent intense, somewhat all over the place post Love crushes, obsessions, poetry… Love addiction and what pain-body has to do with it (Part 1) I promised Part 2. Here we go.
Who are you? #happiness #universe
When I was younger, I remember writing an essay at school, and later – uni, on who I thought I was. I tried to define myself through descriptive nouns and adjectives of all sorts – daughter, sister, good student, human … Continue reading
Are you your harshest critic? #happiness
This week let’s take a step back from the fascinating subject of love crushes (see the previous week’s post here, if you missed it), and look at our internal language. How do you talk with yourself? Are you being … Continue reading
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