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Giving myself permission to be bored
The prevailing modern view seems to be that the modern life is inherently boring. That is why there is so much presence of ideas like “do it for the plot” or “you are only young once” – ideas that call on us to act in interesting ways because it is assumed that fear or lack…
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Creating artificial problems for myself
There is a part of me that loves ordering things and finds a lot of satisfaction in routine and doing the ‘right thing’ (perhaps because of the significant Virgo placements in my chart). This applies to physical things in my life like order in my surroundings and my daily schedule, but also on an emotional…
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Feelings come AFTER the action, not BEFORE
Many manifestation techniques teach the idea that feeling is the portal to aligned action. So, there is a great emphasis on improving feelings through techniques like visualisation of the ‘living from the end’ that increase the frequency of current feelings to higher feelings. However, I am beginning to realise that working on feelings is merely…
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Discipline eats motivation for breakfast
I was always someone who was guided by my emotions and instinct in relation to action. I thought that my emotions had produced so many good things in my life that I must reward these emotions by holding them as the higher barometer of my action. My emotions and feeling were the way I would…