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Maladaptive coping strategies include denial for long time, addiction including workaholic, busyness including charity, chemicals including alcohol, tranquilizers, tobacco and fat/sugar/caffeine.
Unhealthy as they avoid acknowledging and fixing issues. As they become habitual, they add to the overall stress load only numbing or distracting but with harm in return.

Chronic hyper arousal even for perceived stress is flight or flight internalized not expanded, leading to chronic muscle pain in neck, shoulder or back. This affects bodies to create diseases such as high bp, chronic pain, Moodiness and addiction.

The latter half is about studies including chronic stress, author’s views on non doing over visualization with results in mind

Week to week, formal and informal practice. Upto 8 and life

Hatha yoga, gentle, attentive yoga for 30 minutes. Walking meditation

On body scan meditation

Powerful, effective meditations. Grounding, energy centers, inner sanctuary and consult your inner guides

Breathing and sitting meditation instructions. Startbat 15, then 30, then more

46 minutes daily or minimum 6 days a week, for continuous 8 weeks, in morning or afternoon is the ask. Practice varies from body scan, sitting meditation to yoga

Death is then… a meeting with the divine

Seven attitudes
1. Non-judging — this is good/bad or i cannot do it its hard
2. Patience — letting things unfold in their own time
3. Beginner’s mind — seeing afresh
4. Trust — trusting your own intuition
5. Non-striving — not meditating “to get somewhere”
6. Acceptance — not fighting reality
7. Letting go — of control, expectations

The eating meditation as introduction to mindful living, see, smell, touch and eat a raisin

What attentiveness makes possible and where avoidance of it leads

From use of words like badass and brain wave to solace for a father losing his child, it is serious and light, just perfect. Looking forward for more from life of Krishna, Anubhav Pradhan, the chief experiencer

Full catastrophe comes from Zorba the greek, for life.

3/5 Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet by O. Henry

Your light shines bright and you feel connected with to every child not just yours

The only thing to get from life is the growth that comes from experiencing it.

Let go immediately as latter is harder, since the self(consciousness) dives into and merges with the blockage (the pain or craving for happiness), losing awareness even for years.

Ch6. Heart as a place whose energy we feel. Understand and commit to releasing samakaras.

Insects and Mystics, relentless, poisonous