Nice girl guilt: the overwhelming need to make other people happy at any and every expense. The feeling society has instilled in you when you have disappointed someone in some way – even just in your own mind.
I learned how to have the courage to tell my story, the kindness not to tell others’ and the objectivity to know the difference.
When we are the ones who make them, we are the ones who can overcome them.
A body is responsible for the most amazing part of anything – physically finding or creating. Once we have something, we don’t want it anymore. What we really want is to make and fight and become.
An exhaustive list of (productive) things to think about other than the issue at hand.
Notice how we only feel we are doing “something” when that “something” can be externally measured… by other people?
Children’s meditations, lucid writing, binaural beats, walking meditations.
Once when I was in therapy in high school, a counselor told me she was very concerned about when I got to middle age, because I would have accomplished the things I was placing all of my peace-of-mind on. And then there would be nothing.
Acting without feeling inspired is us saying what we naturally know, feel and think, and this is vulnerability. When we believe that we must be inspired by an idea to create something of it, it is a mechanism to avoid placing ourselves bare into something that other people can judge.
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