Inspiration, and Emotional Resistance
Inspiration briefly frees you from your internal resistances, and empowers you to move forward! But only momentarily… Continue reading Inspiration, and Emotional Resistance
Aggression Triggered By Insecurity
Insecurity breeds aggression. Stop the cycle, meet your own needs, heal your own wounds! Continue reading Aggression Triggered By Insecurity
Protected: My Overwatch Experience
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Protected: Intellectual Open-Mindedness
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Being present and letting go…
Things, events, start and end. To illustrate the idea of presence as clearly as I can manage I’m gonna use an example scenario. Let’s say you’re home, and you’re going to meet your friend for lunch at a restaurant. So you’re driving there. Let’s walk through what happens psychologically… When you enter your car to … Continue reading Being present and letting go…
The Wim Hof Method – Breathing
The Wim Hof Method is a structured deep breathing exercise that aims to exercise the sympathetic nervous system by artificially creating a controlled stressor on the cellular level in your body. You will experience this as lightheadedness and tingling sensations (“These side effects are completely harmless.”) The experience is really intense the first few times … Continue reading The Wim Hof Method – Breathing
Repression and Acceptance
I repress a thing because I don’t want people to see it. For example, I repress my inner anxiety when out in public because I don’t want people to think I’m so anxious just by being around strangers. I don’t want them to think that of me, but I actually am anxious. I hide it. … Continue reading Repression and Acceptance
The stories we tell ourselves
Some background: I’m an instructor at a Full-Stack Coding Bootcamp. So I teach classes everyday, or I prepare for upcoming classes everyday. You know, teaching, especially in a massive class as the one I’m currently teaching, is making me see people in very terrible situations. Someone who has no business being a developer whatsoever is … Continue reading The stories we tell ourselves
Personal Responsibility
I have things to complain about. Things going wrong around me. At home. At work. In the social world. In the past. I see with absolutely crystal clarity what is going wrong, who’s responsibility or fault it is, and how it ought to be resolved. I almost always know that. So, I certainly have a … Continue reading Personal Responsibility
A blog?
The reason I haven’t written anything in the past three years is because along the way I discovered that most of the time no one has anything to say that hasn’t already been said. Not too long after, I discovered something else. That that’s not why people talk or listen. I’m not particularly extraverted. I … Continue reading A blog?
The Mshary 