Tag: thinking
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Does your brain burn more calories when you think really hard?
In most cases, deep thought and concentration do not burn tons more calories than routine brain activity. But if we think we’ve worn out our brains, we will feel exhausted anyways. I’m thoroughly disappointed. All this time aggressively thinking while sitting on my butt in my cubicle doing nothing, no wonder I don’t look like…
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7 Lovely Logics
Make peace with your past so it doesn’t spoil your present. What others think of you is none of your business. Time heals almost everything, give the time, some time. No one is the reason for your happiness except you yourself. Don’t compare your life with others, you have no idea what their journey is…
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Tardy Tuesday
Tardy Tuesday was worse than 10am Monday but today is different. Last night, I promised my sister I wouldn’t touch this machine. I would leave early from work, 5pm. I would call her on my way to Yoga. And when I got home at night, after eating and showering with my Yoga mat, I would…
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My Dhyana Self-Knowledge
I am grateful to be feeling so much today. I have been particularly inspired by learning about Dhyana, or meditation of yoga. It actually brought me to tears this morning and I’ve been in a slow, positive, steady emotional recovery since. I am presently feeling refreshed with appreciation for my own self-knowledge. “…once it has…
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Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Eighteen
Do What You Love Find hard work you love doing. If I could offer my eighteen-year-old self some real career advice, I’d tell myself not to base my career choice on other people’s ideas, goals, and recommendations. I’d tell myself not to pick a major because it’s popular, or statistically creates graduates who make the…