Book: Planet nervous

The popularity of mindfulness, meditation, and a minimalist approach to life is a visible response to a culture of overwhelm.

No matter how much we are surrounded by modern life, our psyche is still vulnerable. The number of mental disorders is constantly growing, and if we believe in the importance of our mental health, then we need - we really need - to understand what could have caused such changes.

If in the modern world we have cats scratching our souls, then what difference does it make how many advantages are around;

Often, people who are more than financially wealthy live in fear, feel inferior and even prone to suicide.

... the irony is that we read about things that provoke anxiety and depression, and we become even more anxious;

The news is designed to make us feel energized.

One ophthalmologist told me that my eye infection and obstruction of the tear duct are the result of working on a computer. It turns out, looking at the screen, we blink less often.

Minimalist Fumio Sasaki said: "Happiness is in owning little."

I used to think that social networks are harmless. Thought was sitting there because I liked it. But I kept on, even when I like it stopped. I remembered that feeling. It is akin to what it feels to be sitting in a bar at three in the morning, when all my friends already went home.

Don't play ranked play. The Internet loves the ratings, whether it's reviews on Amazon, TripAdvisor and Rotten Tomatoes, ratings or photos, updates and tweets, likes, favorites, retweets. Ignore it. Ratings are not a sign of value. Never judge yourself by them. All loved you need to be a king of flatterers. William Shakespeare, perhaps the greatest writer of all time. Its rating on Goodreads - 3,7 mediocre.

By 1600, England produced about 400 different publications a year - ten times more than in the previous century. They say that the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the last person who read all the books. However, this is impossible, since he died in 1834, when there were already millions of books. But very curious what people of that time really believed that it was possible to read everything. Now this will not convince anyone.

If you feel that the time is not enough, it does not mean that it is not enough.
If you feel ugly, it doesn't mean you're ugly.
Anxiety does not mean that you need to worry.
If you think you're little I've accomplished in this life, it does not mean that you have reached small.
The feeling that you lack something doesn't make you less full.

The future is unrealistic. The future in the abstract. The present is all we have. One now replaces another. We must live in the present. There are billions of different versions of the future. But the version of "I" this is just one. Focus on it.

Aging is something we can't do anything. You can eat right, exercise and live consciously, but we'll still grow old. Date of our eightieth birthday is known to us. We can of course make every effort to live up to it, but to stop the race of time is impossible. Certainty is encouraging. When we can't change anything, the anxiety starts to decrease.