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Resilience in Buddhism, a different perspective to find happiness, joy and peace #burnout #unemployment #anxiety
When you find yourself in a predicament, see it from a different point of view. “Happiness is sorrow, sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty, difficulty in happiness”. If it’s so bad it’s impossible, know it too shall pass, … Continue reading
Posted in buddhism, video & film
Tagged anxiety, buddhism, burnout, happiness, happy, joy, mental health, mini retirement, nomad, peace, redundancy, resilience, self-discovery, shamanism, suffering, therapy, unemployment, universe
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Overcoming challenges and growing through struggles – my talk on resilience #burnout #mentalhealth
Cathy Lawson and Alison Burgess of I Have Got This invited me to take part in their Resilience Matters series. I talk about some of the challenges I had to overcome and how I did it, my corporate burnout and … Continue reading
Posted in video & film, work
Tagged anxiety, burnout, event, happiness, happy, live, mental health, nomad, redundancy, resilience, talk, unemployment, universe
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New mantra. No thoughts.
I have recently tried this new technique. It helps to manage anxiety, over thinking (rumination), excessive worrying and instantly returns you to the present. All you do is stop thinking.
Posted in meditation
Tagged anxiety, emptiness, happiness, happy, meditation, nomad, rumination, thinking, thoughts, universe
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Do you send notes to a future you?
Do you write yourself future notes? I like to play this time travel trick, especially when I worry about something. For example, I added this note above in my calendar for a future me in March nearing 2 years of … Continue reading
Surviving the pandemic – TikTok videos that soothe, inspire and uplift #happiness #anxiety
#3 This is exactly how I felt most of 2020 – do you relate? (source)
Posted in video & film
Tagged anxiety, covid, depression, emptiness, happiness, happy, lockdown, nomad, pandemic, poem, tiktok, universe, video
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Transforming Anxiety – with Elisha Goldstein and Action for Happiness
Fear + Uncertainty = Anxiety. How true. Who has not felt anxious in the last year? Elisha Goldstein says that 1 in 12 of us used to suffer from anxiety before the Covid pandemic, and now it is 1 in … Continue reading
Posted in learn
Tagged action for happiness, anxiety, covid, elisha goldstein, happiness, happy, nomad, pandemic, talk, uncertainty, universe
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“Dance In The Fire” practice to manage emotions
Dawa Tarchin Phillips What To Do When You Don’t Know What’s Next I am going to lead you through a short exercise with your emotions. The first emotion that I would like you to connect with is the emotion of … Continue reading
Rumination, or obsessive thinking, and what to do when it becomes too much
Many of us believe that we are our thoughts, or rather many of us don’t stop to think whether what our minds are telling us in the form of thoughts is true or not, because the belief that thoughts are … Continue reading
Posted in self
Tagged anxiety, brain, disorder, emergency, happiness, happy, mental health, mind, negative thinking, nomad, obsessive, psychology, rumination, spiral, thinking, universe
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“My soul drifts light upon a sea of trees” — a film about a Zen priest helping depressed, suicidal people.
After losing two friends and an uncle to suicide, Zen priest Ittetsu Nemoto made it his life’s mission to support those struggling with depression and suicidal behavior. My Soul Drifts Light upon a Sea of Trees follows three of the … Continue reading
Posted in buddhism, death, video & film
Tagged anxiety, buddhism, depression, documentary, film, happiness, happy, japan, nomad, suicide, trailer, tricycle, universe, vimeo, zen
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Which mindset zone are you in during Covid-19?
I’ve seen this chart on Professor Scott Galloway’s Linkedin page (I listen to his Prof G show and Pivot podcast with him almost exclusively now) and it is the best visual summary of our mindset options during this pandemic. I’ve spent … Continue reading
Posted in quotes
Tagged anxiety, coronavirus, fear, growth, happiness, happy, mental health, mindset, nomad, quarantine, scott galloway, uncertainty, universe, well being
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Don’t push away the fear
Source: Ram Dass Fellowship (Facebook)
Living in the time in between
I am envious of those who, unlike me, can stay productive and positive in such uncertain times. I missed a blog post last week because I’ve been struggling. Psychologists call what many of us are experiencing grief. I’d add uncertainty … Continue reading
What if not knowing what next is an achievement?
I’ve been mini-retired for 6 months. Retirement is a great way to practice emptiness. Six months of non-doing and facing uncertainty is when I usually hit the psychological threshold and the monkey brain spirals into anxiety. You know the script … Continue reading
Posted in emptiness
Tagged achievement, anxiety, buddhism, calm, desire, emptiness, happiness, happy, in between, nomad, peace, success, universe
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The Mind Explorers – London premiere and live Q&A, come and say hi!
Recently I posted A new milestone… a new door opened… a new world discovered… #happiness. So what has been this amazing spiritual growth experience that has blown my mind so much? Inspired by the likes of Stan Grof, Ram Dass and … Continue reading
Posted in plant medicines, video & film
Tagged addiction, anxiety, depression, documentary, film, happiness, happy, mental health, mushroom, nomad, premiere, psilocybin, psychedelics, retreat, universe
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