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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You've discovered what the luckiest and unluckiest people discover - life is inherently unsatisfactory, and nothing you chase in the world can give an ultimate sense of meaning, or fully take away the pain or ennui, or fill the black hole. Your mind is shaped by evolution to keep dangling carrots in front of your face. Never letting you have satisfaction for long, because if you did, you'd stop chasing. The way to break free from the prison the mind constantly builds is to look inward. More and more I'm seeing the truths in the Buddha's four truths of the noble ones. 1: there is unsatisfactoriness inherent to life. Birth, aging, sickness, death, bring the untrained mind into suffering. Even in great conditions like you currently have, there can be unsatisfactoriness. 2: the cause of unsatisfactoriness is craving, leading to clinging. 3: there is a way to stop craving. 4: that way is the eightfold path of the noble ones. :)
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