16 min

Do you prefer unhealthy familiar to healthy unfamiliar‪?‬ Lights On with Mitra Manesh

    • Mental Health

When we live in fear, we see changes as unlucky, unfortunate, and destructive. This is why people stay in unhealthy relationships and unhealthy jobs, because they prefer the unhealthy familiar over the healthy unfamiliar. When we live in choice, we accept change as part of life. If life was unchanging, it wouldn't be life. If we are afraid of change, we are afraid of life. 

Join Mitra as she offers three suggestions to help you embrace life's changes. First, right before you fully wake up in the morning, remind yourself that you have a choice to walk the streets of today with awareness and knowingness. Second, pick one area of your life and start living it with choice You can start small, like taking three breaths before making a decision of adding a few steps to your daily movement. And finally, if you are suffering in any area, ask yourself what choices do I have at my end to end my suffering? Oftentimes, there is a decision to be made that we have put off while waiting for somebody else to change. 

When we live in fear, we see changes as unlucky, unfortunate, and destructive. This is why people stay in unhealthy relationships and unhealthy jobs, because they prefer the unhealthy familiar over the healthy unfamiliar. When we live in choice, we accept change as part of life. If life was unchanging, it wouldn't be life. If we are afraid of change, we are afraid of life. 

Join Mitra as she offers three suggestions to help you embrace life's changes. First, right before you fully wake up in the morning, remind yourself that you have a choice to walk the streets of today with awareness and knowingness. Second, pick one area of your life and start living it with choice You can start small, like taking three breaths before making a decision of adding a few steps to your daily movement. And finally, if you are suffering in any area, ask yourself what choices do I have at my end to end my suffering? Oftentimes, there is a decision to be made that we have put off while waiting for somebody else to change. 

16 min