your mind: the one thing you can control yet cannot escape
Mindset, breathwork, meditation Abby Maroko Mindset, breathwork, meditation Abby Maroko

your mind: the one thing you can control yet cannot escape

OSHO, the great meditation teacher and philosopher, once said: “the mind can be a beautiful servant or a dangerous master.”

I believe there is a middle path: hence, being both the observer and director…both the observer and alchemist, of your thoughts and emotions, byproducts of the mind.

Ultimately, you GET to witness what you think and choose to drop it by dropping into your heart. Breathe in and out of your heart. Think less, feel more. Become greater than your mind.

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A 3-Step Formula To Breakthrough These 5  Fitness Phobias Today (The 3 E's of Overcoming Fears)

A 3-Step Formula To Breakthrough These 5 Fitness Phobias Today (The 3 E's of Overcoming Fears)

5 of the biggest fitness phobias I see across the board in women include: carbs, body image (usually getting bulky), succeeding/failing (outcome of trying a plan), and injuring oneself. Follow the 3 step process over and over again I reveal in this post (the 3 E’s) to overcome those fears—which are much smaller than you and very manageable. Overcoming fear can send an endorphin rush just as get as a PR in the gym.

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How To Gratitude Journal Beyond The Vanilla Way (Flavors Are Abound)

How To Gratitude Journal Beyond The Vanilla Way (Flavors Are Abound)

I feel like when I was first introduced to the “Gratitude Journaling World,” there was just the simple, vanilla, bland option of “write down 5 things that you are grateful for.” I am a person who: craves new flavors and experiences; I like to mix-and-match; paint the world as I need to see it, etc. if you catch my drift. I felt like there was a void of formats for expressing my gratitude through writing.

That’s why I’ve produced this article: for your optionality of expression.

Below I have offered four different gratitude journaling options for you—going from least to most time-consuming, heart-expanding, elaborate, cerebral, and illustrative. Some like it vanilla and some like it Baskin Robbins. Now you can pick your flavor and make it a playful practice of going deep.

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The SAME FUCKING SOURCE: Your Energetic Instinct To Keep Going, Is Right Here

There is an infinite, immortal, unwavering, and untouchable source of “continuation” within each of us. A mixture of instinct, will, drive, and amour for more…more connection, more exploration, more accomplishment, more discovery of what we are made of and what the world has to share/offer. This intelligence— much bigger than our brains, much more powerful than our minds, knows “we got the sauce” to not just survive, but thrive. This is the SAME FUCKING SOURCE. You got it!

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