#self-reflection — Public Fediverse posts
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You Cannot Affirm Your Way Around the Inner Work
A gentle but honest conversation about spiritual bypassing and why affirmations, positivity, and spiritual practices cannot replace the deeper work of healing. This blog explores the importance of understanding our emotions, recognizing our triggers, having honest conversations about grief, fear, pain, and hurt, and taking loving accountability for how we show up in the world.https://angelblessings11.com/2026/08/22/you-cannot-affirm-your-way-around-the-inner-work/
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Ozone: The fault is not in our trees, but in ourselves
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fault-not-our-trees-ourselves
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381542
#HackerNews #Ozone #environmentalissues #selfreflection #climatechange #sustainability
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Things shift
It’s become clear that I have trouble moving beyond paradigms of thought which no longer serve me.
The example top of mind today is this line from my personal oath: I don’t compare myself to others, only to myself from yesterday. I adopted that oath eleven years ago. (I had to look that up.) In all that time, that line has felt rock solid. Comparing myself to anything has recently felt problematic.
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AI can give you answers, ideas and possibilities.
But reflection starts somewhere else:
Who are you?
What is happening?
What matters to you?
And what is your next step?My Own Compass was built around that principle.
No account. No cloud for your reflections. No subscription. Your thoughts stay on your own device.
AI can expand your possibilities.
Your compass should still be yours.
#SelfReflection #Resilience #PrivacyByDesign #SelfAwareness #AI #artificial_intelligence
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In high school they taught us how to solve problems, but never how to solve the problems that are already solving us.
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Wrote down my thoughts about personal mood and privileges rooted in a photo, my daughter took a few months ago.
Something different from my usual content, and a little bit more self-revealing than I thought.
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I SEEM TO BE ACCIDENTALLY IMPROVING
DISCIPLINE WITHOUT MISERY 💎This is slightly embarrassing.
After a lifetime of being suspicious of discipline, I appear to have developed some of my own.
I fast every day. I do breathwork every day. And now I write every day.
Usually I sit here with the AI, throw some half-formed idea at it, and we turn it around until I can see what I actually think. It is rather like having a thesaurus for ideas. Dangerous, obviously.
None of this feels like punishment, though. That is the strange bit.
There is discipline in it, but it feels freely chosen. Almost effortless. I no longer wake up thinking, “Oh my God, I have to improve myself again.” I just do what I do.
And something seems to be happening alongside it.
My clothes are getting looser. My body feels lighter. My flexibility has improved enormously.
And the breath has become something much larger than an exercise I do a few times a day. It is simply there. And the more consistently I return to it, the more there seems to be to discover.
Increasingly, during completely ordinary parts of the day, I notice space where there used to be noise. Peace. Silence. Not instead of physical life, but right in the middle of it.
Even the writing seems part of the same process.
Less clutter. Less excess. Less carrying around things I don’t need.
Apparently, one can become leaner in more ways than one.
I should add that I still have a little belly, so nobody needs to alert the authorities.
Perfection has once again been successfully avoided.
#Discipline #Breathwork #IntermittentFasting #Writing #AI #Wellbeing #Aging #SelfReflection #DailyPractice #Mindfulness
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It’s there, everyday, the “why”? This time society is not asking, nor my neighbor, nor a family that either gave up on me or accepted what I told them as fact and moved on.
I am the one asking.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-trans-woman-faces-a-question-why-am-i-trans-c3b16effbbde -
Buddha said, “Desire is the cause of suffering.”
Then, if we want to get away from suffering, isn’t that also a kind of desire?
My son’s exams are nearing, and my wife asked me to help him with his History lessons.
One of the chapters was about the era of Chandragupta Maurya, along with some information about Buddha and his teachings.
One teaching that caught my attention was the one mentioned in the title: “Desire is the cause of suffering.”
I am no one to question Buddha’s teachings, and I am certainly nowhere close to understanding the wisdom of such great thinkers. But while helping my son study, I couldn’t stop thinking about this.
Look at our daily lives.
We have expectations—from others and from ourselves. When those expectations are not met, we feel disappointed, frustrated, or hurt. In other words, we suffer.
Buddha, as the story goes, witnessed the hardships and suffering around him. He began searching for the reasons behind it. Eventually, he identified desire as one of the fundamental causes of suffering.
He then dedicated his life to understanding and teaching the path beyond suffering.
But here is where my confusion begins.
If I desire to get rid of suffering, isn’t that desire too?
If I say, “I don’t want to suffer anymore,” am I not still wanting something?
And if wanting something is desire, then am I not caught in the same cycle again?
Perhaps I am misunderstanding the teaching completely. Perhaps Buddha was pointing to something much deeper than simply “wanting” or “not wanting.”
But this thought has been bothering me ever since I read that chapter with my son.
Are we trying to escape desire… because we desire to escape suffering?
Dear readers, if you understand this better than I do, please enlighten me.
I would genuinely love to hear your perspective.
#buddha #buddhism #desire #fiction #life #meditation #mentalHealth #philosophy #reflection #religion #selfReflection #spirituality #suffering #writing -
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DATE: July 31, 2026 at 05:00AM
SOURCE:
NEW YORK TIMES PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGISTS FEEDTITLE: In a World of Mirrors, Everything Is Strange
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/opinion/face-self-reflection-technology-video.html
Staring at ourselves on screens, on video and on social media is taking us to a dark place.
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/opinion/face-self-reflection-technology-video.html
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Making Room for Everyone but Ourselves
Many compassionate people become experts at caring for everyone else while quietly neglecting themselves. In this reflective essay, Nancy explores the subtle ways self-abandonment develops and why healing begins when we finally include ourselves in the compassion we so freely offer others.https://angelblessings11.com/2026/07/30/making-room-for-everyone-but-ourselves/
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Zwischen Glück, blindem Fleck und Gerüst
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/zwischen-gluck-blindem-fleck-und
#Philosophie #Selbstreflexion #Erkenntnistheorie #Glück #Demut
Between Luck, Blind Spots and the Scaffold
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/between-luck-blind-spots-and-the
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Absence is Presence
There is a strange paradox in life: sometimes the things we cannot see are the things we feel most deeply. Absence is often mistaken for emptiness, but it is rarely empty. A vacant chair at the dinner table speaks louder than a crowded room. A phone that no longer rings can echo with memories. Silence after an argument can carry more meaning than all the words that were spoken before it.We tend to associate presence with what is visible, tangible, and immediate. Yet some of the strongest […]https://chatdeseblog4u.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/absence-is-presence/
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Was KI vielleicht leisten kann
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/was-ki-vielleicht-leisten-kann
#KI #Philosophie #Selbstreflexion #Psychologie #Technologie
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What AI Might Be Capable Of
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/what-ai-might-be-capable-of
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Chords are set. Opening with What Could Possibly Go Wrong by Melanie C. Get the notes. Arrangement:
https://chordyes.com/chord/melanie-c-what-could-possibly-go-wrong
#guitarfriends #guitarlife #british #femalevocalist #pop #motivational #selfreflection
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Healing Beyond Ourselves: The Journey of Self-Awareness
Healing has taught us to understand ourselves in ways previous generations rarely discussed. But what if self-awareness is only the beginning? In this reflection, I explore the relationship between healing, compassion, accountability, and how our personal growth shapes the way we show up in the lives of others.https://angelblessings11.com/2026/07/25/healing-beyond-ourselves-the-journey-of-self-awareness/
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What Comes After Infinity?
I sit alone, surrounded by silence.Or at least, that's what it seems.Inside my head, there's a conversation that has no language. It's quiet and loud at the same time, like a melody without lyrics, playing on a loop. It has no beginning, no end.It is shapeless because how do you describe nothingness? Do we even possess enough knowledge to give it a form? Perhaps some things exist beyond the limits of our understanding.Then, in a snap, I'm back.Like flipping a switch on the wall, my mind […]https://chatdeseblog4u.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/what-comes-after-infinity/
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Das unterschätzte Gefühl
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/das-unterschatzte-gefuhl
#Philosophie #Psychologie #Selbstreflexion #Empathie #Intuition #Depression #Denken #Perspektive
The Underestimated Feeling
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/the-underestimated-feeling
#Philosophy #Psychology #SelfReflection #Empathy #Intuition #Depression #Thinking #Perspective
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I Forgot You!
Life moves on, things don’t remain the same.
That excitement to see each other, the anxiety to leave when we really had to, being in touch till late at night, and then starting the same without caring whether we are sitting in the toilet or brushing.
We do all the things we have to, but you were always there like the background music of a movie scene, which we can feel through the scene, that music gives a sense to that scene, but is never a main part of it.
We met, spent time, without looking at the watches, in fact, when I was with you, I wanted to throw the watch, which used to remind me that I had to go away from you.
But then things happen, the way sand slips from our hands, and things started slipping for both of us.
We knew it was happening, but it’s happening like that background music, which was not making any sound as such, but giving us the signs that something is collapsing.
Then one day, it ends; it feels like everything is abrupt, but when we look back, there is a clear pattern to it. But just because we both knew that life wouldn’t be the same again from that point, it felt abrupt.
Now, after so many years, we are both busy in our lives, life doesn’t stop for anyone.
When old things come up among friends, and your topic comes up, I casually say, ” It’s a past, and I am very much ahead of it”.
But somewhere in my life, all the time, you are still with me, like that background music, without making any sound, but making an unseen impact on me.
I said, I forgot you, but I am not. Actually, I can’t.
#blogging #life #love #reflection #selfReflection #writing