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There’s so much power in knowing your power. Knowing that you can control what you give your energy to. Knowing that you have the power to create a new reality for yourself. To shape yourself into the person you want to be. To reinvent yourself into the badass that you visualize in your mind. To reach new goals, attain higher levels of success and almost anything you ever dreamed of. Visualize, plan, manifest and take action. Go be amazing. KNOW YOUR POWER.
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When Oscar Wilde said Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation, and Jorge Luis Borges said I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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“Normal Anxiety” Versus Generalised Anxiety Disorder
The difference between “normal” worrying and generalized anxiety disorder is that the worrying involved in GAD is excessive, intrusive, persistent and debilitating. With normal anxiety:
1.Your worrying doesn’t get in the way of your daily activities and responsibilities.
2. You’re able to control your worrying.
3. Your worries, while unpleasant, don’t cause significant distress.
4. Your worries are limited to a specific, small number of realistic concerns.
5. Your bouts of worrying last for only a short time period.
However, with Generalised Anxiety Disorder
1. Your worrying significantly disrupts your job, activities, or social life.
2. Your worrying is uncontrollable.
3. Your worries are extremely upsetting and stressful.
4. You worry about all sorts of things, and tend to expect the worst.
5. You’ve been worrying almost every day for at least six months. Most people with GAD experience a combination of emotional, behavioral, and physical symptoms.
Emotional symptoms
• Constant worries running through your head
• Feeling like your anxiety is uncontrollable
• Intrusive thoughts about things that make you anxious; you try to avoid thinking about them, but you can’t
• An inability to tolerate uncertainty
• A pervasive feeling of apprehension or dread
Behavioral symptoms
• Inability to relax, enjoy quiet time, or be by yourself
• Difficulty concentrating or focusing on things
• Putting things off because you feel overwhelmed
• Avoiding situations that make you anxious
Physical symptoms
• Feeling tense; having muscle tightness or body aches
• Having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep because your mind won’t quit
• Feeling edgy, restless, or jumpy
• Stomach problems, nausea, diarrhea.
Note: If you’ve struggled with anxiety and fears your whole life, it’s likely that your anxiety symptoms are due to GAD; if your anxiety symptoms are relatively new, this could be a sign of a different problem.
Source: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/generalized_anxiety_disorder.htm
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I don’t want to spend my whole life asking
“What if I had done more?”
And so I give and give
myself and everything
whole and without hestitation
“I will not regret kindness.”
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“So maybe there’s a war, inside of me and for me, and maybe my heart is the opposite of small. Maybe it’s the opposite of cheap and empty and alone. Maybe it’s sacred and enormous and wild.”
— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much
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List of coping thoughts
Mistakes happen; nobody’s perfect.
This situation won’t last forever.
You’ve already been through many other painful experiences, and you’ve survived.
This too shall pass.
Your feelings are like a wave that comes and goes.
Your feelings might make you uncomfortable right now, but you can accept them.
You can be anxious and still deal with the situation.
You’re strong enough to handle what’s happening to you right now.
This is an opportunity for you to learn how to cope with your fears.
You can ride this out and not let it get to you.
You can take all the time you need right now to let go and relax.
You’ve survived other situations like this before, and you’ll survive this one too.
Your anxiety/fears/sadness won’t kill you, it just doesn’t feel good right now.
These are just your feelings; eventually they’ll go away.
It’s okay to feel sad/anxious/afraid sometimes.
Your thoughts don’t control your life; you do.
You can think different thoughts if you want to.
You’re not in danger right now.
Confront your problem with a confident attitude of “So what?”
This situation sucks, but it’s only temporary.
You’re strong and you can deal with this.
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“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert (via purplebuddhaquotes)
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“I guess I would say: above anything else, stay true to yourself. Whether that means for you that you like to have blue hair, or you don’t like to drink, or you are attracted to the same sex, or you want to remove yourself from Facebook, or you’ve got 3 different kids from 3 different dads but you know you’re a really good mom, or you cry for a week because your turtle died. Whatever your truth is, stay true to yourself. But be a good person while you’re at it.”
— Gillian Anderson
