How to dodge the ninja stars: an example

How have you been? How are you feeling?

For the past few months, I've been working on improving habits such as remembering to have a few mindful moments every day. I think these habits are good for mending the mental "wounds" I acquire throughout the day from negative emotions, i.e. ninja stars (if you do not know what I mean by the ninja stars analogy, check out the "Kittens and Ninja Stars" post or even better yet, go to the source and watch the video). About a month ago, I decided that it is the appropriate time for me to figure out if there is a way to dodge some of the ninja stars so that I don't get wounded in the first place. In stress management I think they call them "triggering events" or something but I'm using the ninja stars terminology because I don't get to use the word ninja star that often, and I personally feel like the word "trigger" is a word that is too strong for me to use in this context.

This post is LONG, and will cover the following:

• WHO throws the ninja stars?
• WHAT is a ninja star? WHY does it hurt?
• WHERE do the ninja stars come from?
• WHEN do you get hit by ninja stars?
• Based on the above, are there any ninja stars that can be dodged or blocked? How can they be dodged?

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