How I did it: I did it slowly. It's not an overnight thing, it'll be more like weeks of you working on being better and then one day you realize how much progress you've made.
I had a lot of self-loathing issues, and now I'm a lot better because I realized that sitting around hating myself doesn't fix anything.

Lessons & tips: You're here now. Do whatever you can to be happy right now or else it's one more thing you'll regret. Stop living in the past or thinking the future will be better.

Resources: Zen Buddhism got me through, but I strongly recommend Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now. If I had found it before I was this much better, I can't even imagine the changes it would have made.

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Jan 08, 2009, 08:44AM PST | 0 comments | 1 cheer