Welcome to Meaningful Connection, where I share October resonating ideas, thoughts, and realizations for those who want to grow mindfully in 7 minutes. I will try to answer the following questions: let me know how I do. Meanwhile, see if you can find the answer.

✨Thought-provoking questions

1. How can one differentiate between healthy ambition and greed while expanding?
2. What are some effective strategies for balancing personal growth with relationships?
3. In what ways can mindfulness practices contribute to finding balance while expanding?
4. How can one identify and overcome limiting beliefs that hinder growth and expansion?
5. What role does self-compassion play in balancing personal growth and self-care?

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👓 What’s New?

Thinking about my recent activity, I wrote about CoDA Promise Nine because I’m all about self-care. Meanwhile, I discovered a few new ways to stay balanced while awake. The thought led me to keep an eye on how I want to live my life without telling others how they should live theirs. Ultimately, I’m glad to be back for this month’s meaningful connections as I leave you with a few final wishes to prep for the new month. With that, let’s dive into the resonance!

🔔 What is Resonating?

During October, I had many inputs revolving around studying the 12 CoDA promises. Each set of promises has questions assigned to them. When I go through each, I love to reword the questions to get a better connection with my life and how CoDA relates to it. Of the 12, promise Nine caught my attention because I enjoyed the answers I gave in my notes. For reference, here is promise nine.

“Acknowledge that I am a unique and precious creation.”

Twelve Promises – CoDA.org

What makes me unique?

I want to focus my life on the 📝 Vye 12 Favorite Problems, for example, 🗺 How can I find balance while wanting to expand or 🗺 How can I meditate before acting? I use these questions to gather ideas to lead my life.

How do I treat myself in a way that is paved with loving-kindness?

I meditate in the morning and evening to preview my thoughts. Then, I can ask what is heavy on my soul, which begs me to show self-love. When my energy goes outward, I can catch myself looking at people, places, and objects. Then, I can trigger a new path called manifestation. After that, I try to recall my gratitude and blessings. If I start believing in stinking-thinking/monkey brain and catch myself, smile at the thought, and find a better way forward. It’s like a game, a treasure hunt. When I feel better, I can move to my body because 📝 The body does its best to maintain balance. In the end, I need to tune in.

Why do I believe I was created?

Each time a thought enters my mind, I remember the following question. 🗺 How can I find balance while having a desire to expand? For me, creation is 📝 When my energy goes outward. My 📝 Confidence is flowing, and then I know I exist. I need to be careful and start 📝 Noticing when I’m addicted to overthinking. Sometimes, the thinking is fun, but it can be draining. Therefore, I need to be aware of 📝 The balance of consideration. Meanwhile, 📝 Slowing Down will get me to the Wisdom.

🌻 What’s Growing?

When October rolled over, I had several new experiences that added to my 12 favorite problems. To start, 📝 Like Hugging a Red Balloon, Experience life and let go. I don’t want to hold on to anything in the Fleeting Notes.

Instead, check it against my 📝 Vye 12 Favorite Problems and find a way to Stumble Upon the Idea as an Atomic Note. The idea led me to consider 📝 ZettelKasten’s Depth is the Compass Thinking. In other words, I was making connections between ideas. For example, what is similar to the concept? Another, where can the thought lead to? Finally, that month made me consider 📝 Everything I do tests me to be awake. Knowing that 📝 When the suffering is processed, I can focus on happiness. Happiness is the test of life. Living is a test of being awake.

🥑 Mental Nourishment

Throughout October, I started focusing my thoughts on my 12 favorite problems. For example, 💭 Live my life, don’t tell others how to. I wrote the idea because it connected to 🗺 How can I find balance while wanting to expand? Building on the context, I told 👤 Juliana Jul that I would like her to move and live with me in the United States. During this, I felt sad, strong, and concerned. As a result, I came up with two major focus points. 📝 Don’t tell people what to do. In other words, I have my own life and don’t need to tell people to be part of it. If I want to 📝 I need to build my friends in my interests. I shouldn’t tell them how to live their lives. Since I have common interests, it will be easier to be around them. Going to in-person events in my area or moving to a location where I can find my tribe is a healthy way to live.

Moreover, 📝 I can improve my comfort with people by taking an Improv class. A coworker suggested Toastmasters—a bucket list event.

What did I learn?

• Suffering will come. It will hurt my friend more than me.
• My life would be better if another person lived with me. In a plus one form and not a need to form.

Were there any related CoDA patterns?

• 📥 CoDA Patterns and Characteristics > Control Patterns Codependents often
• I go beyond my boundaries while feeling sadness because the person won’t act as I want.

What is the plan for the future?

The plan for the future when I’m stuck deciding if my thoughts are good in merit, perhaps I can 📝 Focus on my blessings. In any case, I had many views; feel free to comment with your ideas. Otherwise, let’s keep on going to the stream of consciousness.

🎇 AI Assistant

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🚿 Stream of Consciousness

You may have noticed that I skipped a month in the writing. My goal is to provide meaningful connections. I can reach my goal by reducing the effort of creating content. That led me to 📝 stop treating all thoughts as knowledge instead become a 📝 Smart Collector of information. A better way would be to Stumble Upon the Idea as an Atomic Note. Also, the writing process felt boring and annoying. I hate to force myself to write. Writing my thoughts down with greater meaning allowed me to grow as a person and come to the table thrilled to put together an outline.

Well, that’s it for Oct; feel free to share your ideas or if you have something on your soul. If you want to know how I became an artist, subscribe and follow my blog for more.