How Do You Silence Doubts, Fears, and Other Negatives In Your Head?

Mindfulness, of course, is the key to finding and/or creating silence.

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I read a lot.

Every morning, I spend about an hour reading. A chapter or two of fiction, and a chapter or two of nonfiction.

Most of my nonfiction reading is along the same lines I blog about. Mindfulness, self-awareness, self-encouragement, psychology, and like topics. I read this to increase my knowledge base and find new ways to live this life on my terms. And live it as fully as possible.

This is not a perfect, always-on, always-successful process. It’s a practice — and sometimes it doesn’t quite work as desired.

What’s that mean? It means that I must constantly work on my conscious awareness — and mindfulness, as such. That means things like limiting my time on social media, avoiding news media, and steering as far from political advertising as possible — while still keeping tabs on the world at large.

Spend about 60 seconds on any given social media platform and you’ll be exposed to bad, sad, frustrating, infuriating, and otherwise unfortunate news. If you’re anything like me — and you have the dual struggle with guilt about your privilege with also working to live life on your…