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8 Ways Your Wasting Your Life by Mark Schernoff of MarkAndAngel.com

One of the hardest challenges we face in life is to simply live in our own skin. To just

be right here, right now, regardless of where we are. Too often, we needlessly distract ourselves

with anything and everything. Food, booze, shopping, television, tabloid news, online

social networks, video games, cell phones, iPods, etc. Basically anything to keep us from

being fully present in the current moment. We use compulsive work, compulsive exercise,

compulsive love affairs and the like to escape from ourselves in the realities of living.

In fact, many of us will go to great lengths to avoid the feeling of being alone in an

undistracted environment. So we succumb to hanging out with just about anybody to avoid the

feeling of solitude. For being alone means dealing with our true feelings, fear, anxiety,

happiness, anger, joy, resentment, disappointment, anticipation, sadness, excitement, despair,

and so on and so forth. It doesn't really matter if our feelings are positive or negative.

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