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Shadow Work to Heal Your Anxiety

I'm in the process of healing my mind, body, and soul. My goal is to transform into a Jon who has more inner peace. I realize my anxiety has compromised my career performance at times. Also, I have to stop my past trauma with bad people from destabilizing my emotions. These are my weaknesses, or as psychiatrist Carl Jung would say, my shadow in my unconscious. I am facing my shadow and hugging it, therefore, bringing it into my consciousness and healing it. I will increase my mindset practices and physical fitness. I will take a day or two off from work every week. The constant hustle is not healthy. This new healthier Jon will rise in 2024. 

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Creativity makes your soul happier.

I recently watched The Florida Project on Netflix, a movie by Sean Baker about the innocence of kids making the most of their lives despite being poor. I cried. No matter what problems you have, there's so many other people facing tougher challenges. What an amazing movie, with both playful humor and heart-wrenching drama! The link to the preview of the The Florida Project is below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwQ-NH1rRT4 My heart melts for the children going through so many difficulties. Resiliently, many of these kids are still able to find ways to have fun. In my second novel, I wrote about the adversities the children in Iraq faced after the invasion by the U.S. I'm still pitching this story to the literary industry. I...

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Try tweaking your personal life and business to make a pivot.

Try tweaking your personal life and business to make a pivot. A couple of days ago, I walked around my neighborhood with my friend Claire Ann Niibu @bizcoachclaire who I've known since our time as students at Pearl City High School. She's a business coach who consults in person and offers online courses such as accounting at www.bizcoachclaire.com. We shared our latest happenings in our lives. "I feel like I reached my limits," I explained. Throughout 2020, I've been feeling so overwhelmed and worn down with my business projects and personal challenges. To top it off, like many of you, the Coronavirus has made things worse. How can I feel like this when I apply so many psychology, philosophy, and mindset...

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Happiness comes to those who want it.

Happiness comes to those who want it. - +positive masters+, Jon Riki Karamatsu, 2/26/2020 - How badly do you want to be happy? If you want it badly, you'll work at it every single day until your last day alive in this realm. You are your own hero. You can save yourself from yourself to get out of the depths of darkness, which we fall into from time to time. Scroll through our social media posts and our blog here at www.positivemasters.com to see practices, quotes, poems, and writings that may be helpful for you to be happy a great majority of your life. You got this! Pictured is our Dream Cloud Mantra Dark Unisex Hoodie to motivate you to...

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Play the ultimate game, in which you can go anywhere.

They say, "Go to college, get a job.""Be clean cut, don't be a slob."So many people showing off what they've got.Some of it's real, some of it's not.Why not be who you are?Work from your heart and follow your own chart. Long hair or short hair, who cares.Play the ultimate game, in which you can go anywhere.- poem, +positive masters+, Jon Riki Karamatsu, 2/27/2020 - Are you feeling pressured to do what you think society expects you to do? What do you want to do? You've got one life. Before you know it, you'll be dead.  Enjoy the +positive masters+ universe here at www.positivemasters.com for mindset practices, motivational writing, and apparel with inspirational mantras and designs to boost your happiness and counter...

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