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How Does it Make You Feel?
Whatever you are doing in your life, it’s important to recognize how it makes you feel.
Life moves at a pace that can be tremendously disconcerting.
While technology has been a boon to make the world smaller and bring us closer together — it’s also been a challenge. Society has become fixated on quick fix, instant gratification, faster-faster-faster ways, and means.
Information inundates us from the technology we created to make it more accessible. News both true and false, opinion, conjecture, fact, and more are available 24/7 at your fingertips. Overwhelm and overload have become normalized — and the stress and other illnesses that go with them.
Feelings — even among those who feel more than they think — get steamrolled by it all. Expectations, responsibilities, societal norms and such bulldoze your awareness and mindfulness in the interest of contributing to the “greater good.”
As such, we do things because we’re expected to. We take on jobs we don’t truly desire, responsibilities we don’t want and allow ourselves to be complacent in the name of fitting in.
If you are doing something that makes you feel miserable — why are you doing it? When you do something by rote that makes you uncomfortable — why? When…
