Category: Mental Mastery

So I’ve taken up a new job. And I’m stocking shelves. I’m waist-high in boxes all day. Cutting them open, taking things out, breaking them down, filling them, hauling them. And after too many boxes, too many to count, I catch on a thought that just won’t go away. Boxes all have a lean. 

   What I mean by that is once you take the box apart, it will lay flat easier in one folding direction than another. Every box has its lean. And as humans, we’re really no different. We all have a sort of set point. A standard that we continually go back to, a comfort zone that we consider normal. 

Continue reading “How to accept your flaws and predispositions”

   I’ve been considering the idea of balance quite a bit lately. Both in regard to my own life, and also as a broad concept. I think it’s interesting, because most people I’ve talked to resonate with this idea of balance very strongly. We think that if only we could get everything in balance, our lives would be fun, satisfying, and harmonious. In a word, perfect. Finally. And if so many of us have this idea, then maybe there is something to it. So why do we seem to struggle so much?

Continue reading “Finding Balance: mastering the art of yes and no”

  I dedicate this piece to my sister, because while she is going far away and I will probably not see her for a long time, I am so immensely proud of her and excited to see the kind of life she builds for herself. 

Continue reading “Goodbyes are just as important…”

  Coping is insidious. I know that I’m Miss “It’s time for you to feel your emotions”, but honestly, I get caught up in it too, sometimes. 

Continue reading “Pursuing Happiness–my latest realization”

  Back in the olden days, there were strict rules and expectations on everyone. Young people, old people, regardless of gender or race or anything, there were different sets of expectations that you were supposed to follow. And for the most part, people did. In a way, it was integral to society, that everyone knew what they were going to do and be for their whole life. Some of it was steeped in prejudice, some of it was down to tradition. These days, society as a whole is becoming more tolerant and open-minded.

Continue reading “A Treatise on Normalcy”

 They were fighting again. It had grown so commonplace now—less of a fright and more of an annoyance at this point, but our new puppy had a different point of view.

Continue reading “The importance of music”

  Growing up, I had this friend who liked to quote Oscar Wilde. “Be yourself, because everyone else is taken.” She would tell me that over and over again. While it was an important thing to hear as a pre-pubescent, adolescent, the thought built on itself over the years. With the amount of people who are afraid to be themselves, I’m not sure everyone else is taken.

Continue reading “How to be yourself and live authentically”