Living Inside-Out: Be Who You Imagine You Can

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  • Nothing Comes Back from the Dump
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  • Nothing Comes Back from the Dump – Electric Literature
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    • It is not a good place to be. Enduring extended periods of time in this space is likely to spiral us downward into a chronic mood disorder. Severe depression or anxiety ensues as our inability to control everything and everyone becomes evident and our ability to reclaim our power lessens. The best chance of surviving and thriving is to switch things around.

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    We need to give up our need to be the managing director of the universe because it is an exhausting and pointless task. Magic happens when we use our minds to tell the universe what we want.

    We are the drivers of the vehicles our bodies and minds. We get to decide whether we want to go down a good read helpful, inspiring and empowering path or a bad read helpless, disempowering and de-motivating path. We are the ones who get to determine what defines us. If we are going to allow an external situation to break us, it is in our allowing of it that it does so. It is not the actual situation but our response to it that breaks us. If we are overcome with grief or paralysed with fear as a consequence of what we observe, it is our permission of that emotion to dominate us that does so.

    When we begin to see the glimmerings of hope and indulge in feel-good positive emotions, we spiral upward. An upward spiral tends to lead toward an action that further contributes to us feeling better. When we see that there is some progress and we are moving in a forward or upward direction we are also more inclined to do new and different things that work better for us.

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    Our confidence increases, our courage returns and we begin to take our power back from the situation or people we had relinquished it. The sharp tool — known as our brain- begins to work for us instead of against us. Your marriage, your boss, your finances and your health have to change for the better because the outside world merely reflects our inside world. But that is a blog for another time. You have only suffering to lose and emotional stability to gain.

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    Sometimes it is even a blessing in disguise. Or maybe you experience joy when talking to a close friend or reading a great novel. It was something I liked about being there, as I have spent so much of my life among people who look a lot like me, or who are, at least, white. We often overlook the fact that we need to live our best lives from the inside out in order to have the lasting joy that many of us are longing for. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. She is choosing life over wealth.

    Changing negative and problematic patterns is a process, not an event. Be patient with yourself and practice these new habits as often as you can.

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    My hope is that these approaches to living your best life will help every day to feel better and also enhance your enjoyment of the fun, instagram-worthy activities that you engage in. One thing that can keep us from living our best lives is not being present. There are so many distractions in the world today.

    When you think about living your best life what comes to mind? Do you imagine yourself jet-setting to fabulous locations around the world?. Then you find your way back to inside out living again, a little wiser this time. When you imagine how you'll be seen by others, you make up a.

    Whether it is being on our phones, answering emails, messaging with people who are not with us, feeling badly about the past, or worrying about the future, many of us spend very little of our time in the present moment. Sometimes we use these distractions to escape the present moment because the present is uncomfortable or painful in some way. However, living our lives in the present allows us to experience all of the richness that life has to offer, which includes both joys and sorrows.

    Being present takes practice.

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    One way to practice being present in your life is to meditate regularly. Mindfulness meditation is one a type of meditation, which involves the practice of resting your attention in the present moment and continuing to bring your attention back to the present whenever it wanders off. This is a challenge even for people who have been meditating for years! To start meditating I suggest setting aside some time start with 5 minutes each day or a few times a week to sit, be still, and pay attention to your breath or something else that your senses perceive in the moment.

    Using an app e. Headspace or Calm can help with this. Beyond meditating, I encourage you to practice becoming aware of the times when you are focused on something that is not happening in the present moment and try to bring your attention back to the present every time you notice that.

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    For example, if while talking to a loved one you are criticizing yourself about something, see if you can bring your attention back to what your loved one is saying. As Black women, many of us have numerous demands on our time and energy. We are often asked to head up extra committees at work, take on parenting responsibilities, and step up to support our friends, family members, and partners. All of this leaves limited time for us to cultivate joy in our lives.

    It can be very easy to get into survival mode. While vacations and fun nights out with friends can certainly bring joy, I encourage you to think about small things you can do on a daily or weekly basis that bring you joy. Maybe taking walks outside, or going to your favorite yoga class regularly will bring you joy. Maybe you find joy in cooking special meals or taking yourself on a great date every once in a while. Or maybe you experience joy when talking to a close friend or reading a great novel.

    I encourage you to spend some time identifying things that bring joy to your life and make an effort to engage in these things on a regular basis. One of the things that keeps many of us from living our best lives is the lack of boundaries in our lives. Setting boundaries involves saying no to other people so that we can say yes to ourselves.

    This can be difficult because when we set boundaries with people who are used to getting what they want from us they may get upset, which can make us feel guilty.

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    Additionally, many of us as Black women have been socialized to put everyone in our lives before ourselves and challenging this norm by putting ourselves first can make us feel uncomfortable. In order to do what we love we have to make time for it, which usually means prioritizing ourselves over what someone else may want from us. I encourage you to think about an area of your life where you need to set a boundary and determine what it would look like to put that boundary in place.

    If you you give away all of your free time, think about setting aside time each week that is just for you to do what ever will bring you joy. When you set a new boundary the people impacted may throw a tantrum and you will have to withstand their resistance and stand firm with your boundaries despite the feelings of guilt that may arise.

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    Remember that boundaries make our lives and relationships better even if they are hard to stick to at first. Living our best lives involves regularly doing things we love.