A reminder to take care of yourself

As fun and exciting bitcoin can be I know I have found myself obsessively researching and reading about it sometimes for 6 hours a day.

But I think we should remember to give ourselves some time to relax and to forget about the markets and about money. Our brains need space to recuperate and relax.

Remember when you were young, playing outside and you were fully in the present moment. You weren't thinking about things constantly, grasping and clinging to mental concepts and thoughts, you didnt derive your reality from mental projections of how you think the future should be, you were free from those concepts, so the present moment was all there was. I think we can find relief in the present moment. The markets are so future oriented but if we live our lives only thinking about the future, living through a construct in our minds, our imagination of the future, we really miss what is already here.

If we can't appreciate and enjoy the present moment right now, we probably never will because there will always be a next thing that we think will liberate us, or make us happy. But the future is only experienced through the present moment.

So give yourself some mental space, go on a walk [without music] so your brain has some space to unwind and refocus from obsessing to just being.

Like all things, balance is important. It's okay to consider the future and plan accordingly but it can sometimes be painful if we are too emotionally attached to it.

Submitted May 17, 2019 at 06:40AM by Zek256 http://bit.ly/2JJ652l