Maybe you've heard the term "grounding" or "groundedness" before. If you watch Elliott Hulse on Youtube, he's always talking about grounding and being grounded. They also talk about grounding in yoga classes. But there is curiously little about grounding to be found online. If you Google "grounding" or "groundedness", all you find is some new age sites from the 90's or … [Read more...] about Is “Grounding” Real?
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How to Deal with Social Anxiety
How to deal with social anxiety is a massive topic that can't be covered in one post, even one as long as this. This will probably be the first of many posts on this topic. Here I'm going to give a brief background of my own experience with social anxiety, and then discuss a few things that I currently do to minimize it. Background (Social Anxiety & Me) As a kid I had bad … [Read more...] about How to Deal with Social Anxiety
The Value of Drug Experience in Personal Development
There's a Catch-22 when you try to talk about drugs. You run into cliches and start to sound like a spaced out hippie. "We're all, like, one with the Universe, man." Because of their preconceptions about drugs, people don't take you seriously. The Catch-22 is that the more you try to explain this to them, the less seriously they take you. It's hard to get away from this, at … [Read more...] about The Value of Drug Experience in Personal Development
My Awful Deadlift Mistake (and What You Can Learn from it)
Updated June 23, 2017: For exercises and information on what I did to help with lower back pain from the injury, see the video at the end of this post The deadlift was always my strongest lift, both in absolute terms and relative to everything else. Lifting a lot of weight - if only on one exercise - fed my ego as a guy who looks good but isn't actually that … [Read more...] about My Awful Deadlift Mistake (and What You Can Learn from it)
6 Tips for an Effective Gratitude Journal
I've written before about why you should start a gratitude journal. It's going to be beneficial no matter how you do it, but here are some extra ways to increase the value you get from the practice. 1. Journal 1-2 times a week If you write in a gratitude journal too frequently, then it will become routine. If you don't do it often enough, then it won't have any effect. … [Read more...] about 6 Tips for an Effective Gratitude Journal