My parents chose to be vegetarians when they were still in college. For them, it was a manifestation of their spirituality. In other words, they were children of the 60s and professed compassion for all living things, which meant not eating them.
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How To Deal With Our Emotions When They Hijack Our Joy
Everything we see when we're in a funk is negative. It doesn't matter if we're literally standing in a meadow of bunnies hopping through wildflowers. We'll see the gnats swirling around our heads and the hot sun beating down on our brows. The truth is that our understanding of reality is filtered through our emotions. How we feel at any given moment determines how we view the world. When our feelings change, so too do our mindsets.
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The Value of Guarding Your Attention
How often does something pull your attention away from the present? Whether getting lost in thought or scrolling through our phones, distractions define our lives more than our intentions. None of us is immune to the plethora of attention-sucking stimuli in our lives, but we all have the tools necessary to gain some of our agency back. Remember the Pixar movie WALL-E, where the people were sitting in their floaty chairs, utterly unaware of their surroundings? At one point, WALL-E accidentally bumps into one of the floaty chair people and inadvertently makes her aware of reality. Out from behind her screen, seemingly obvious truths became revelations. "I didn't know we…
