Photo by Pixabay Something I wish I had known earlier: When you're stressed and you sit with your emotions, simply allowing them and resisting the urge to push them aside by drinking alcohol, doomscrolling, stress-eating, and the like, your brain eventually gets tired of running the usual doom-and-gloom scripts. You let go, reach some sort of flow state, and then you just know what to do about the situation, or at least know what the best next step to take would be. If you're only beginning to practice this, it feels counterintuitive. You will feel restless. Your mind will be screaming, "Why the fuck are you just sitting there doing nothing when we have something urgent?!" The unpleasant emotions will be magnified and it will be hella painful. But if you just stay with it and resist the urge to numb the pain, clarity will eventually wash over you. Insights will come flooding in that will make you think, "Oh my god, why didn't this occur to me before?" Th...
An attempt to create my own life instruction manual based on my own observations, learnings, and lived experiences