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This video is about “tiny epiphanies” and my experience in a sensory deprivation tank…but it’s also a call to action.
1. Next time you are alone with your mind and feel the temptation to call someone, text, put in your i-pod– don’t. Just be with yourself. Try to be in that moment. Not in fantasies of the future or memories, but with what you feel right now. This is how tiny epiphanies happen.
2. I have a question for you! What are your recent tiny epiphanies? I want to hear your past and current realizations, no matter how obvious they now seem.
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Tiniest epiphany that made the biggest difference: recognizing that I can quit being snarky with my partner, cold turkey. It wasn’t hard and it made a noticeable difference in the tone of our day-to-day life together.
Lisa, yes! My biggest partner epiphany recently is that I can see his point of view in an argument, but I need to stop and sort of make myself. But if I can do that, that is empathizing and it makes so much of a difference, reminds me that I love him. I get the snarky thing too, I try to watch when I am being contemptuous, I think contempt is a relationship killer.
I’m a high school student and have recently been having trouble with my academic work. On my drive home today, after brooding and crying, I realized that I’m never going to get anything accomplished angry. And that holds true for everything else in life, I think.
My most recent, and very welcome, tiny epiphany happened just last weekend, when I realized that one of the core issues beneath my many-years-long struggle with anorexia has been the ‘need’ to ‘shame’ my female peers by being thinner than them, so as to get ‘revenge’ for all their perceived rejection of me. Truth be told, most of the rejection was coming from myself, with I can see so clearly now in hindsight …
personally I think happiness is not the destination, it’s the journey. as in, happiness is experiencing all of living. really.
my most recent epiphany? take the opportunities that life present to you. “say yes more.”
being alone with your thoughts can be comforting sometimes.
A recent one for me was about blame. I tend to blame the city I now live in for not accommodating my creative needs….I tend to believe that this unhappiness stems from feeling displaced, when really the problem lies within myself.
Alie,
Hm that is a curious one. See, my thing with anger is that it is a valid emotion, repressing it or glossing over it only leads to bad things. Anger should be felt, worked through. But the only productive thing I’ve ever got from anger is creating through it: writing from anger, making art from anger. So, maybe channel that into a craft?
Meghan,
Wow thanks for your honesty. I am always so shocked at how much of what we run on is shame and anxiety. I think most problems could be boiled down to these two spheres of being.
Sui,
LOVE this.
Rachel,
Oh my god, your comment could not excite me more. There are sooo many friends of mine who I wish I could make understand this! Congrats to you to getting to it on your own.
xoxo
My epiphanie was recently when I discovered my use of the term ‘should’. I realised by using ‘should’ I placed sooooo much unnecessary pressure on myself and did not practice self love. The word ‘should’ has so much negative connotations and makes one feel as if they are NOT doing enough. I now always catch myself out when I start a sentence with ‘I should’ and end up elongating the shhhhhh turning it into ‘I shall if I find it is in my best interest of practicing self love’. Thanks for the article!!!!