Everything is a tool. — Mark Manson
Or: every practice, lens, philosophy is a tool in the toolbox of life.
This perspective has been helpful for me because it keeps me from falling into the thinking that that I need to find the “one thing” will make all my problems go away. This is the sort of thinking that gets people into following culty cult leaders.
I can pick up tools, play with them, and put them down as I need to. I’ve created this running list to remind myself that I have lots of tools to draw from:
- body scans
- letters from love
- tea ceremonies
- juggling
- clowning
- medicine learning
- seeing patients
- cooking delicious food
- walking
- running
- swimming
- climbing
- slacklining
- talking to friends
- community (WUH, men’s group)
- shabbat
- volunteering
- doodling
- living life as art
- dance and freeform body movement
- sunsets
- hugging trees
- noticing colors
- psychotherapy
- journalling
- blogging
- spirituality
It’s a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at. — Elizabeth Gilbert
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