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How energetic do you feel now?

How pleasant is this moment?

People often have high energy and low energy periods of the day. Try to match high energy projects with natural high-energy states.

Pithy Points:

It hurts to hear "People treat you the way you let them treat you."
"Stand up for yourself" sounds easier than it is.

"Don't give people the power to annoy you."
Don't set yourself up.

"Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting."
- William Makepeace Thackeray

"Any path that you are still on is a path you have chosen."
- Robert McCollum

"Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentment".
- Neil Strauss

Interesting paper: Specific reduction in cortisol stress reactivity after social but not attention-based mental training Translation: Breathing and body awareness (Perception type) meditation might improve immune response to stress. Practicing Gratefulness and Compassion (Affect type) and/or Perspective type meditation - on a habitual basis - will improve cortisol reduction/stress recovery to socially stressful situations. Multiple forms of meditation increases overall mental health.
Empathy and compassion: Empathy needs to become compassion to stay on the healthy side of stress

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Unraveling Empathic Distress. The article discusses the dark side of compassion in emphatic distress, defined as an emotional state characterized by the inability to tolerate perceived pain or suffering of another. It also cites the difference between empathic distress and healthy compassion, which allows people to respond to a crisis with the full range of appropriate human emotions without shutting down or becoming emotionally triggered. It talks about pain in the brain and healing steps for stronger emotional boundaries.