The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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I do believe in God, now. Not exactly the Christian God necessarily, although I do think that the Christian conception of God tries to point at the type of God I believe in.
I see God as basically the ground of reality, the ultimate Source, First Mover, all that jazz. Basically the cause of the universe instead of like some dude in the sky who's all powerful.
For a long time I tried to believe, and acted as I did. It was difficult and painful, and I did a lot of soul searching and had some pretty intense/weird experiences, but eventually I did start to believe. Now I do have a kind of firm "faith," grounded in the felt sense of love in my body. To me, whatever the source of that feeling of love is, which feels vast and boundless in the right mental state, is God.
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