When Great Ideas Become Lead Weights
Here are five ways to help preserve the life and growth of a good idea when circumstances mean we can’t follow it up right now, ways to stop it becoming just another weighty addition on a “to do” list.
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Here are five ways to help preserve the life and growth of a good idea when circumstances mean we can’t follow it up right now, ways to stop it becoming just another weighty addition on a “to do” list.
In meditation, the suggestion to ‘let go’ can seem a bit abstract, a little either/or. Softening, on the other hand, is different. You can’t get it wrong.
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Do joy and grief share something essential in common? And by cutting out one, do we end up cutting ourselves off from the other?
It’s time to examine the mental inbox. Have you been getting messages from yourself, read them and ignored them? Are you set permanently to ‘do not disturb’? Have you actually blocked your own number?
It seems not only that everyone is in pain, but that there’s an underlying assumption that we shouldn’t be, creating an extra layer of suffering on top of the pain itself.
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