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In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized behavior are still geared to an environment of lack. The result? Overwhelm - on an unprecedented scale.
~ Martha Beck
Behavior
Bizarre
Brains
Developed
Developed World
Environment
Face
Geared
Hundreds
Instincts
Lack
Millions
Now
Our
Overwhelm
Problem
Result
Scale
Still
Unprecedented
Us
World
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Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything you can about the pros and cons of each option. You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information.
~ Martha Beck
About
Come
Cons
Continue
Each
Everything
Genuinely
However
Hunch
Indecision
Information
Instinctive
Know
Learn
Long
May
Means
More
Need
New
New Information
Only
Option
Pros
Time
Track
Which
You
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Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.
~ Martha Beck
About
Accept
Alive
Being
Doing
Done
Drop
Engagement
Everything
Fretting
Full
Getting
Go
Having
Instead
Means
Simply
Then
Things
Whatever
Why
Why Not
Worry
You
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It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.
~ Martha Beck
About
Also
Create
Day
Days
Eating
Fitness
Four
Get
Happens
Improve
In Other Words
Less
Little
Living
Loss
Other
Past
Regimen
Required
Takes
Things
Three
Time
Used
Virtuous
Weight
Weight Loss
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You
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Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
~ Martha Beck
Again
Ambivalence
Change
Decisions
Easy
Eventually
Feel
Focus
Full
Just
Level
Life
Makes
Mind
New
New Level
Nothing
Personal
Really
Rising
Sense
Them
Tough
Tough Decisions
Trust
Try
Understanding
Worst
You
Your
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Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail and sometimes even when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive, enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.
~ Martha Beck
About
Accepting
Celebrating
Collaborate
Could
Differences
Effort
Enjoyable
Even
Every
Exciting
Fail
Feeling
Hide
I Think
Lifetime
Lousy
Make
Many
More
Now
Our
Ourselves
Personally
Powerful
Productive
Right
Should
Sometimes
Spent
Start
Succeed
Them
Think
Trying
Us
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Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.
~ Martha Beck
Accepted
Around
Connect
Delusion
Easier
Feel
General
Go
Growing
Growing Up
However
Let Go
Likely
Love
Love You
More
Much
Others
Own
People
Protective
Stems
Still
Tedious
Up
Who
Will
You
Your
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My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to control my behavior through a combination of slavish devotion and incessant howling.
~ Martha Beck
Ability
Assumptions
Based
Behavior
Capacity
Combination
Control
Devotion
Dog
Elaborate
Even
He
His
Howling
Incessant
Intellectual
Lime
Possesses
Set
Slavish
Through
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
~ Martha Beck
Affect
Alike
Anything
Avoid
Bias
Change
Evidence
Hold
Ignore
Jobs
Know
Might
Mind
Nut
Our
Point
Scientists
Think
Too
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Not everyone is equally good-looking.
~ Martha Beck
Equally
Everyone
Good-Looking
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Not having time or energy for weight loss makes no sense. Does it take more time or energy to eat fish than prime rib? No.
~ Martha Beck
Does
Eat
Energy
Fish
Having
Loss
Makes
More
No Sense
Prime
Sense
Take
Than
Time
Weight
Weight Loss
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Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.
~ Martha Beck
About
Attraction
Aversion
Based
Become
Begin
Choices
Confront
Doing
Emotional
Fear
Fun
Instead
Interested
Love
Making
Meaningful
Now
Once
Our
Possibilities
Right
Ripe
Safe
Seems
Suffering
Think
Used
Where
Willing
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One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.
~ Martha Beck
About
Aspects
Avoid
Brooding
Career
Children
Constantly
Contemplating
Continuously
Frenzy
Having
I Can
Issues
Keeps
Like
Little
Lives
Lonely
Mental
Mortality
Most
My Own
Never
Never Stop
Notice
Our
Our Lives
Own
People
Problems
Reason
Say
See
Stop
Thinking
Upsetting
Us
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Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.
~ Martha Beck
Achiever
Almost
Created
Culture
Descriptions
Domestic
First
Goddess
Good
Individual
Our
Second
Two
Woman
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Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you've ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to be deeply hurt, you may see accepting your own body as a setup for severe emotional wounding.
~ Martha Beck
Abandon
About
Accepting
Beliefs
Belonging
Body
Deeply
Emotional
Ever
Favorite
Feel
Hurt
Ideas
Intense
Issues
Loath
Lovable
Love
Lovely
May
Most
Need
Only
Our
Own
Primal
See
Setup
Severe
Us
You
Your
Yourself
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Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.
~ Martha Beck
About
Anything
Avoid
Because
Deal
Developing
Disappointment
Dramatic
Easy
Effect
Effort
Event
Expectations
Go
Good
Good Deal
High
Hopes
How
Itself
Low
Many
Our
Painful
People
Pleasantly
Spend
Surprised
Thoughts
Through
Trying
Vulnerable
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Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'
~ Martha Beck
Baggage
Emotional
Event
Events
Had
Her
Largely
Leave
Losing
Memory
Out
Painful
Scars
Stroke
Taylor
True
Turns
Who
Years
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Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.
~ Martha Beck
Absorb
Accountable
Always
Choosing
Fact
Loss
Mean
Others
Our
Own
Pain
Realizing
Self-Esteem
Self-Worth
Terrifying
Vulnerable
Would
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Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
~ Martha Beck
Anything
Anything Else
Else
Feel
Like
Never
Period
Play
Playing
Rest
Resting
Then
Until
You
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Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from left to the right hemisphere, that sense of expansiveness and everything, can be accomplished through unusual rhythmic action, or any action that requires so much attention away from words that you cannot think in words.
~ Martha Beck
Accomplished
Action
Any
Anything
Attention
Away
Brain
Cannot
Everything
Hemisphere
Left
Move
Much
Much Attention
Out
Play
Requires
Rhythmic
Right
Sacred
Sense
Takes
Think
Through
Turns
Unusual
Words
You
Your
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