Learning, focus, and aliveness built through practice 馃珌 Journey The Breath 馃摎 Bestselling Author 馃嚠馃嚜 Irish in Bali 馃 BJJ Brown Belt

Bali, Indonesia
Joined October 2011
The advice that changes you is rarely the advice that feels good to hear.
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A held breath is a held belief. Usually the belief is that something bad happens if you relax.
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Healing isn't linear, but it is directional. Most weeks that's enough.
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Some seasons aren't for building. They're for repairing what building already cost you.
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A body in constant fight or flight will burn through motivation faster than any bad habit will.
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The relationships that last aren't the ones without resentment. They're the ones where resentment gets said out loud early.
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You're not too sensitive. You just learned to notice things that other people were trained to ignore.
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What are you calling "not ready" that's actually just "scared"?
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Your body already knows the answer. Most people just breathe too fast to hear it.
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You're not behind. You're just measuring your life against a timeline nobody actually agreed to.
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You don't have to understand why you feel something before you're allowed to feel it.
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You don't need a better morning routine. You need a nervous system that isn't in survival mode by 9am.
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A lot of couples aren't fighting about the present. They're replaying an old argument with a new face.
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The thing you overexplain the most is usually the thing a parent once made you feel guilty for.
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Most personal growth isn't dramatic. It's just doing the boring thing consistently until it stops being boring.
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You can't breathe your way out of a life that never lets you exhale.
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You don't need a new identity. You need permission to stop defending the old one.
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Most freedom doesn't feel dramatic. It feels like finally not caring about something that used to run your whole week.
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You can't meditate your way out of a schedule that never lets you stop.
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The distance in most relationships doesn't start with a fight. It starts with a small thing nobody mentioned.
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