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Constructively Replenishing

BY: T. Franklin Murphy | September 2018

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We prepare for unknown challenges by actively engaging in knowledge and skill building activities. We exchange wasteful avoidances and rejuvenate with healthy enjoyments.

Life grinds us down, dulling our sharpness. Routine and boredom invade our tidy spaces, frighten our sensibilities, and warn of impending doom. If unprepared, these shifts of psychic strength can spook us into addictions and unhealthy escapes. We must replenish our minds and refuel our spirits.
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To build resilience, we must actively use the present. A future of richness and opportunity is invited not stumbled upon. We don’t know which challenges the future holds; but we can reasonably ascertain that future holds challenges.

We must prepare for these unknown challenges through activity. We create a wider base of knowledge and expertise by being actively engaged in learning, not waiting to see what will happen first. We prepare by reading books on new subjects; taking college course to expand our knowledge; visiting new and fascinating places; getting involved in social activities to meet new people; practicing new hobbies; exercising a little more; or eating a little healthier. The list of constructive work available is endless. One choice may not provide the meaning you sought; that is okay, try something else.

"We must prepare for these unknown challenges through activity. We create a wider base of knowledge and expertise by being actively engaged in learning, not waiting to see what will happen first."

We achieve wellness and soundness of character on many plains. Our health, our knowledge, our competencies, our relationships, our spirituality, and our financial security. Each sector of human wellness becomes pillar that we can (and should) constructively work on, utilizing the precious time in between the many demands that pull energy from our being.

We should enjoy our practices of constructive rejuvenation, not forceful engagements but enjoyable growth-promoting endeavors that add richness. A constructive life wards off the intrusion of unplanned amusements that do little but distract. Through active engagement, we find new goals that give life meaning. Through active engagement, we learn as we are exposed to a much wider universe, and through our exposures, we grow. The routineness of life dissipates as we adventure into new corners of living we have missed.

Until we explore, we will not know. Unexpected, we may stumble on new purpose, discovering a new calling, awakened to passions previously unrecognized. The dullness once overwhelming gives way to something better—an aliveness full of vigor and strength.

These exciting blessings do not materialize from nothing. They don’t jump to life from mind numbing television watching, or robotic clicks of the mouse. We must constructively reach beyond routine to escape the habits of thoughtless distractions, and purposely invite newness and opportunity into your soon to be expanding lives.

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FLS Link. Burnout: We can deplete energy through emotions, mental and physical exertions. When we push too hard, for too long, we burn out. Recovery requires a lifestyle change.

FLS link. Posttraumatic Growth: Significant traumatizing events destroy our stable view of the world. From these ashes, growth is possible. We get back up, re-examine our world, adjust our expectations and move forward, a little wiser and stronger. We grow in response to the trauma.

We worry about our standing with others, creating insecurities. We protect against the feelings through blind spots where we overlook reality and miss opportunities to grow.

Our environments dictate our beginnings; but our choices shape our lives.

The ache of co-dependency and the fear of emotions all hinge on our capacity to process discomforting emotions. True connections share emotions. Each partner willing to receive the other partner's experience and patiently work through the emotion together.

Life has its challenges. Often the weight of demands drags us down. We need healthy escapes to rejuvenate and lighten our load.

We protect our lives from the showering of unpleasant experience through our minds and action.

We, like the acorn, have great potential. We, unlike the acorn, are empowered beyond our environments. We can create environments that gives more of the nutrients and protection that we need.

Five life changing discoveries I stumbled upon during a long search for flourishing.

External Links:

External Link: Four Techniques For Managing Your Emotions And Staying In Control

External Link: New study highlights the destructive link between perfectionism and depressive symptoms

External Link: Awaken to Your Body's Wisdom in Flow

External Link: Don’t Work on Vacation. Seriously.

The flourishing life is not stress free. It is stress resilient. The flourishing life minimizes stress through healthy action and properly copes with the stress inherent to living.

Before change is possible, we must have a realistic view of the self that is in need of changing. Change requires self-examination; but gentle, compassionate examination.

FLS link. Namaste: The Hindu origins of the word namaste sparks concerns about state-religion separation. The underlying meaning, however, is unifying.

We are engaged in a constant work of becoming, satisfying needs, entertaining wants, and creating meaning. We can do this purposely or haphazardly.

The ancient practice of yoga is much more than an exercise routine. Yoga brings together the mind, body and spirit in a whole body cleansing experience.

Wellness on the Web

External Link: Feeling stressed? ‘Safety signals’ might help your brain better cope in the moment

External Link: A Mindful Approach to Depressive Thought Patterns

External Link: If we want Real Growth, we better Embrace the Discomfort of the Unknown.

External Link: Make Peace with Your Unlived Life

We prepare for unknown challenges by actively engaging in knowledge and skill building activities. We exchange wasteful avoidances and rejuvenate with healthy enjoyments.

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