This is more of a rhetorical question. Sort of. Allow me a moment to explain myself. In the last several weeks, I’ve allowed my heart to be absolutely crushed. Why? Because I opened myself up to someone more fully than I ever had before, and in turn was met with the realization that not all people are ready for the journey that is two souls meeting, connecting, and deciding to make a commitment to endure. From the moment we met, it was like a movie.
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Category: Sadness and Hurt
"Winter Rejuvenation"
Feb 11th 2012 was a climactic moment for the JasminBalance team. After much preparation, the team presented their workshop to 50 participants eager to partake in the “Winter Rejuvenation” exercises offered.
The 3 hour event was designed as a journey through different parts of the self, including: Body, Mind, Heart, Spirit, and Alignment to learn how to better care for ourselves from the inside out. Each team member shared their area of expertise with experiential activities in dance/movement/yoga, psycho-analytic tools for navigating one’s inner space, frameworks for understanding one’s purpose and the “heart blocks” that can get in the way, guided meditation to help access deeper levels of consciousness within self, and lastly, a way to synthesize all these areas to break through fears and come into empowered action. Continue reading “"Winter Rejuvenation"”
6 Ways to Handle a Bad Mood
Whether it is your mood or someone else’s I find the following 6 tips to be helpful in dealing…
1) Acceptance: It is ok to not always be happy. Just like the weather, it isn’t always a sunny day. This is part of what makes the world and humans perfect and complete. Sometimes simply honoring our feelings and allowing ourselves to feel how we feel is all we need. Continue reading “6 Ways to Handle a Bad Mood”
Is Facebook Making Us Sad?
I came across this short video from Bigthink.com and thought it was relevant considering how much Facebook has become a part of common culture, and the new movie “The Social Network” just came out (which I saw yesterday). I agree with Tal Ben-Shahar in that, although there are tremendous benefits of having this phenomenal platform to connect with the rest of the world, our own deeper sense of self can be challenged….
By spending energy on “externalizing” we can end up spending more time focusing on how we are being perceived, than actually paying attention to what is going on inside us. Also, the tendency to compare and judge (and stalk!) is increasingly amplified with access to all of these photos, which inherently doesn’t add to our true happiness. When we compare ourselves and our lives to the fun, sweet, exciting moments that other people portray on Facebook, we aren’t even comparing to a full reality. We may look at fabulous moment or a picture in someone else’s life and compare it to the entire scope of our lives and feel bad. Or on the other hand, we may compare and judge the other and feel better about ourselves temporarily. When in truth, the need to compare and judge others as a means to feel good about ourselves, might be the real thing to be giving some attention (click here to learn more about doing that).
On another quick note, one thing I found most interesting about the movie, is that the kid who made Facebook didn’t have any true friends, and he was creating a platform to facilitate “surface” friendships…just food for thought.
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