Mental Filtering: Do You Filter Out the Good or the Bad?
Mental filtering is a cognitive distortion that occurs when you filter out positive information and only focus on negative information.
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A Stoic Approach to Understanding a Pandemic
For the destruction of understanding is a pestilence, much more indeed than any such corruption and change of this atmosphere which surrounds us. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book IX Stoicism introduced to the world the idea that perception is reality. But Stoics did not forget that reality is reality, too, and that we all should strive…
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Mindfulness Meditation: Choosing Which Train of Thought to Take
Mindfulness meditation is the practice of focusing your attention to a neutral source, such as your breath, and then refocusing that attention when your mind inevitably wanders. It’s a simple concept, but it can be a frustrating experience if you don’t know what to expect. In this article, I’ll explain the way I teach mindfulness…
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Melting the Emotional Snowball
Emotional snowballing happens when our reactions to uncomfortable emotions create more uncomfortable emotions. This core emotion grows as it goes, like a snowball gathering more snow as it rolls down a hill. A common example is worry about worry, but emotional snowballing can occur when any one emotional reaction builds from another. Before we dive into…
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Radical Acceptance: The Age-Old Challenge to Accept Truth
“Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.” – “Despite my many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul lead me to conclude that all is well.” Radical acceptance is the act of acknowledging…
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The Tortured Artist: Creativity Myth or Reality?
Just as the Corybantian worshippers do not dance when in their senses, so the lyric poets do not write those fine songs in their senses, but when they have started on the melody and rhythm they begin to be frantic, and it is under possession […] that the soul of the lyric poets does the…
