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But the field of psychology is still preoccupied with self-preoccupation. Too often it teaches us to do what we already do too well—pay attention to ourselves. In the course of exploring our pain, our worries, our feelings, and our dreams we forego the development of a more needed skill—to notice and engage in the world around us. Without practice, these muscles atrophy.
A Natural Approach to Mental Wellness
Gregg Krech
The Do column was brimming with words like worthiness, rest, play, trust, faith, intuition, hope, authenticity, love, belonging, joy, gratitude, and creativity. The Don’t column was dripping with words like perfection, numbing, certainty, exhaustion, self-sufficiency, being cool, fitting in, judgment, and scarcity.
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brene Brown
All the forces at play within us and without seem to be centrifugal forces, pulling us apart. I remain interested in understanding the nature of these forces. The critical conversation remains important. But I’m increasingly interested in how we might find and deploy alternative ways of being in the world. What are the practices that will sustain us? Silence may be just such a practice, and we may do well to experiment with whatever possibilities are afforded to us to enter into silence and to allow silence to enter into us.
The Thing That Is Silence
The Convivial Society
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