By Jana Long — 2021
Jana Long writes about not clinging to stuff—mental, emotional, physical—plus anything and everything that has outlived its usefulness.
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CLEAR ALL
Your life depends on your brain. To be the ethical, engaged, creative, successful, and lively human being you intend to be, you need your brain. You need your brain and you also need to use your brain. It is not enough to possess a perfectly good brain—you must also use it.
In my latest book Redesign Your Mind I explain how you can not only change what you think but how you think.
Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less. It happens when you commit with all of yourself to a new way of life, to a new future. So how do you do this?
The Buddhist meditation practice is over 1,500 years old, but modern science says it has very real mental and physical health benefits.
Meditation is very handy for adapting to challenging situations.
Don’t take anything personally. This agreement gives you immunity in the interaction you have with the secondary characters in your story. You don’t have to concern yourself with other people’s points of view.
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We don’t have to reject scientific logic in order to benefit from instinct.
Through the years, I have learned ways to manage these people-pleasing tendencies, and feel more like myself. Here are four tips — if you find yourself feeling lonely — to achieve a greater sense of belonging.
There are several questions you can ask yourself to help you figure out what values will make you happy.
Emotional intelligence is a set of skills you can get better at with practice. Here are five skills you can cultivate to make you a more emotionally intelligent person.
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