How to Be Alone

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Solitude is not always a imposed state, it can be a conscious and enriching choice if we know how to manage it properly. This is explained by Enrique Rojas, psychiatrist and professor, who, through his social networks and his book Understands emotions, reveals the keys to learning to be alone and to be happy with ourselves. What is the greatest challenge to learn to be alone? Rojas stresses that one of the main challenges in being alone is to fa…

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How to Be Alone

In his new book Aflame: Learning from Silence, Pico Iyer reflects on the more than 100 retreats he has made to a Benedictine monastery in the hills above Big Sur, California. Over the last 30+ years, Iyer, who does not practice any religion, has sought solitude at the hermitage for as little as one night and as long as a month at a time. There, away from cell service and the 24-hour news cycle, he has found that turning away from the noise of th…