If your sad, just be sad. A Quote, Nsima Inyang, How to be more emotional intelligent.
Hi All! Hope you are doing great.
Here is my weekly sunday musings for you.
If you are sad, just be sad. If you feel lonely, just feel lonely.
There are countless pieces of advice about what you can do when you're not feeling energized and emotions like loneliness, sadness, fear come up. These feelings are so negatively charged that we usually immediately have the urge to do something with them, whether we cope negatively or positively. But it's human nature to have these feelings. I have amazing friendships and am extremely grateful for my life, yet sometimes I feel, without initially knowing or needing to know the reason, sad or alone.
What do I want to tell you? Stop completely judging how you're feeling right now and thinking about why. Just be sad, cry a little, take a walk, be content again. Don't forget that you're human. Your sweat, your tears and your blood make you incredibly beautiful and what you are. Don't always run away from boredom, from emptiness, but just let them be there like all other experiences. This will make you healthier, more beautiful and more effective, by the way.
And don't get me wrong: I myself have many tools that I use to shift my emotions & my nervous system, but relax first and don't use these things to run away from a human experience!
A Quote Im pondering about:
“You’re never so centered on yourself as when you’re depressed. You’re never so ready to forget yourself as when you are happy. Happiness releases you from self. It is suffering and pain and misery and depression that tie you to the self. Look how conscious you are of your tooth when you have a toothache. When you don’t have a toothache, you’re not even aware you have a tooth, or that you have a head, for that matter, when you don’t have a headache.”
— Awareness by Anthony De Mello
What I am listening to right now:
#816: Nsima Inyang, Movement Coach - True Athleticism at Any Age (Tim Ferriss Show)
Very interesting for anyone interested in movement. (We should all be interested in it btw ;) )
What Im reading right now:
How to be more emotionally intelligent (without trying so hard) by Joe Hudson.
Thread I am reading. Joe has advised the executives of the largest emerging tech companies. I like this advice a lot.
Thanks for becoming better. Thanks for being you and your attention. Never taking it for granted.
Have a great sunday!
In Love,
Joshua