By Juliana Breines — 2013
What can we do to disarm the green-eyed monster when it strikes?
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It’s natural to get defensive, but that only escalates the cycle of aggression.
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You may not consider how to befriend yourself in meditation, but when you shift your mindset, you can develop a friendly and compassionate approach to the practice. Try the following five practices and approaches to meditation.
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If you use your awareness, you will see everything you believe, and this is how you live your life. Your life is totally dominated by the system of beliefs that you learned.
We don’t have to reject scientific logic in order to benefit from instinct.
Conventional wisdom says happy people have no use for envy. But jealousy can also be a tool if used wisely.
I wasn’t good at practicing self-compassion. My expertise was grit—in fact, I’m one of the “grittiest” people I know.