by Tara Mackey | Blogroll, Happiness, Health, Tara TV, YouTube
Everyone has down days. Everybody has days when feeling better seems impossible. Even people who you consider to be permanently cheery or totally untouchable have moments of despair and sadness. This is totally normal. It’s okay. It’s actually healthy. Feeling is dealing, however, prolonged sadness or letting terrible feelings take over days or weeks of your time is no fun, and it’s an emotion that gets more and more difficult to pull yourself out of the longer it victimizes you.
I’ve felt the desperate feelings. I’ve had the ugly cry. I’ve drowned in the insecurities. I’ve let myself feel all the emotions and have typical (and sometimes a-typical) breakdowns. But then, in just a few minutes, I can take inventory of my emotions when I have let it all out and take myself back to center. I can look up to the sky or at the love I have around me and feel absolute happiness.
How?
The tools I’ll touch on today have worked for me in the last handful of years I’ve been practicing them and for many others for thousands of years before. The beauty of accepting and allowing yourself to feel however you’re feeling in the moment will bless you with the clarity of clear perspective. This week I give you the tools you’ll need to pull yourself out of any icky feeling – from depression to minor annoyance – and feel instantly better!
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I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below! Thanks for tuning in!
With love,
Tara
by Tara Mackey | Blogroll, Happiness, Tara TV, Videos
Happy Motivation Monday!
No matter where we’re at in life, there is almost always something – however small – that is blocking our way. That “thing” normally stems from a fear. A fear of the unknown, a fear of failure, or even a fear of success! Sometimes it comes in the form of resentment, stress, anxiety or sadness. Many of us recognize that we often manifest our fears, but we still don’t know how to stop them!
Today, I talk about releasing your fears. And no – it’s not in a mindful meditation, a mantra or even a sweet little quip! But it is simple, global and highly effective.
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I hope you liked this week’s video. Feel free to participate in the discussion below! I love to hear from you!
With love,
Tara
by Tara Mackey | Blogroll, Tara TV, YouTube
When I started this journey just over four years ago, I admit the big one: I didn’t know diddly squat about health. I mean, it was crazy! I had studied it (majoring in Biology), I had learned it (with a concentration in Genetics and a job at Cornell by the age of 22), and I had glowing reviews in my classes and at work for it. I pridefully took home the best test scores and got every little scientific certificate I could find (Lab Tech? Nurses Aid? Medical Tech? Sure! Why not?!) But I never applied what I had learned about health to real life. I didn’t get it. I didn’t know how to BE healthy. I didn’t know how to truly care about my health, or anyone else’s.
I am only slightly embarrassed to admit that I know waaaayyyy more about the inner and outer workings of the human body now than I did just a few years ago, when I was a working scientist.
I honestly didn’t know anything back then other than what I had learned in school, at work or in a text book. And I knew something else even more deeply: I did not want to rely on prescription medication for any of my pain, depression, moodiness, anxiety or arthritis anymore. It had been too long (over a decade) with tons of pills and no results, and I was so sick and tired of being sick and tired. But I faced one huge roadblock: the one answer every doctor had ever given me was drugs. Period.
No one ever told me to do any of the other amazing, incredible things that have helped shape, change and propel my life so very much in the days and years since. Healthy practices I may not be alive without! The ability to share my answers and ideas on life with you means everything to me. Last week I asked for your beauty, health and wellness questions and you sure came through! I was so happy to answer them this week!
I hope you enjoy this video. It’s unscripted, unrehearsed and completely from the heart.
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With love,
Tara
