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WePause Weekly #6: Love or Fear?
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Spreadsheet: Love or Fear
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Welcome to our 6th WePause Weekly, where I, Ali Eslamifar, hosted this session. In this session, I had the honor of hosting and building an experience around my favorite topic in mental health: Love. Over the past year, discovering key answers to my questions about love has been life-changing for my mental health. During my experience at Burning Man, I learned for the first time that love is about both giving and receiving and that we don't have to try hard to be loving or to receive love.
This Thursday, I wrote a loving-kindness meditation to practice with those who joined our WePause session on Friday. This type of meditation is something I first learned from my mentor, Dr. Wil Heywood, and then expanded using techniques I learned from Sam Harris, Tara Brach, and Jack Kornfield, thanks to all the content they freely publish. Tune in to the recording to vibe with us during this meditation if you're interested, and if not, try it once — it will expand your heart, and you'll see what I mean :)
In the second half of the call, I shared a simple practice I learned through experience to notice the motive behind my decisions. During my frustratingly busy times, I often noticed that I made decisions based on fear, so I challenged myself to replace that fear with love. We discussed this technique with the team, and they all made amazing observations that further expanded our thinking on this concept. Today, notice if you're making a decision or doing something out of fear; notice it and see if you can step back and do it differently.
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