What makes you feel expansive and alive?
Here are two questions to ask yourself this week:
What makes me feel expansive and alive?
What has the opposite effect?
My answers
- Meditation
- Reading stories
- Being in nature
- Writing code
- Playing with Laila (my dog)
- Being with friends
- Laughing
- Learning
- Playing basketball
- Teaching
- Yoga / Yoga Nidra
- Cold Showers
- Small portions of food
- New experiences
- Pranayama
- Writing
What has the opposite effect?
- Bingeing TV
- Eating junk food
- Talking to energy vampires (Pessimists)
- Watching negative news (Social media)
- Drugs
- Alcohol
- Gossip
Here’s the play. Remove the things that make you feel bad. And add the things that make you feel expansive.
Don’t think too hard about goals. Instead, ask yourself: “Where can I fit these expansive activities in?” and do it.
The extra energy you gain will be stored in your energy "bank" and will bail you out on bad days.
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