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Depression, Anxiety, and the Mismanagement of Aliveness

Depression, Anxiety, and the Mismanagement of Aliveness

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Depression, Anxiety, and the Mismanagement of Aliveness

The armies of the anxious, and the droves of the depressed, continue to swell in number. Their members yearn to unlock the mysteries of anxiety and depression, but the keys are lost. We’ve searched for them in every corner of the paradigm of...

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Decolonize Your Mind

Your thoughts are not your own. Many of your most private, most personal thoughts are not actually yours at all.

Think about it: you are no more the creator of your mind than you are of your body. Though you can influence your body’s shape...

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How to Live to 300

How to Live to 300

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How to Live to 300

No one knows how long they’re going to live for. Nonetheless, when I ask almost anyone what age they think they’re going to live to, they give me a number. We act as if we’re going to live to 65, or 85, or 100, and this belief changes...

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Why Men Are So Obsessed With Sex

Why Men Are So Obsessed With Sex

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Why Men Are So Obsessed With Sex

(Originally published in K. Kay, J. Nagle & B. Gould (Eds.) Male lust: Pleasure, power, and transformation (pp. 215-222). New York: Harrington Park Press, 2000.)

Have you ever encountered a baby whose gender is unknown to you? Not knowing can...

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Follow the Absurd

Some things about you set you apart. There are ways you don’t fit in, beliefs and behaviors of yours that are outrageous, ways the world is that have never made sense to you. If you pay attention to these parts, let them lead the way, they will...

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5 Ways to Make Your Life More Like Burning Man

5 Ways to Make Your Life More Like Burning Man

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5 Ways to Make Your Life More Like Burning Man

by Steve Bearman & Troy Dayton (co-posted with Burner Love)

So you’ve been to the playa, and you’ve seen the promised land – the promise of freedom, of self-expression, of immediacy and creativity and community. The playa fed you,...

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Living an Off-Trail Life

Do you live your life on-trail, or off-trail? Trails, roads, and paths make it easier to get from place to place, but only if you want to limit the places you go to the places the trail goes. To gain access to the rest of the world, however, you need...

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Unconditional Beauty

You are beautiful. You are already completely beautiful. There’s nothing that needs to change about your appearance or your body for you to be just right. This is the nature of unconditional beauty.

We have been brainwashed into believing...

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How To Be Attractive

You are more attractive than you think you are! All of us could use to rethink just what “attractive” means. Did you grow up learning that some people are just attractive and others just aren’t? That’s the first idea that...

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