One Thing You Can Do Everyday To Feel Alive

This blog can definitely veer into mystical or weird, which I hope some of you find interesting. But today I would like to focus on a practical thing you can do daily every day. I don’t know what your morning routine is like. Maybe you have children and most of your morning is filled with activity, and you don’t really have a second to breathe. Or maybe you’re a later riser, and you stumble out of bed right into the workday. That can be a taxing way to live. Living this way means to enter the day without any reflection. And before you know it, the days, months, and years pass, and you haven’t done much reflection at all about your life.

As I’ve gotten older, my mornings have become precious to me. I have the luxury of not having children, which makes it immensely easier. And my job affords me flexibility, which lets me have more time in the mornings. All of this is a luxury I realize. But one way of living that I have implemented every day is something I call “self-therapy.” I discovered the concept of “self-therapy” in Erich Fromm’s book, “The Art of Being.”

Self-therapy is what it sounds like: doing a bit of therapy for yourself every morning. You can do this anywhere, but you need to be alone. You can lie in bed, sit on the couch, or use a meditation cushion. The most important thing is to be without distractions, which can be hard. This…