Do You Allow Your Thoughts to Torture You?
When your thoughts are allowed to do as they wish, wandering about, flitting from subject to subject, or remaining stagnant in one single place while you ruminate over and over about whatever it is...
View ArticleDo You Really Have to Blame Someone?
All those things that happen to you in life that in some way don't entirely depend on you with regards to their outcome, are things you may often decide to blame on others. Is this of benefit? Take a...
View ArticleWhere Am I Now?
Asking yourself where am I now at intervals throughout your day in order to discover not so much where you are physically, but where you have gone in your mind will begin to show you how frequently...
View ArticleInner Peace Equals Knowing What to Ignore
Today is an unusually hot day for this time of year. Close to 40 degrees. We're having a heatwave. And it's a working day for many of us. It's made me rather uncomfortable, and caused me to think....
View ArticleThe Transforming Power of Anger
Anger may have a strong hold over you, gripping you in its acid-bathed tentacles. Perhaps it is related to things that happened to you when you were young, or maybe you just never learned to control...
View ArticleCompassion & Emotional Pain
A close friend recently shared her profound emotional pain regarding her relationship with her adult child. Suffice it to say that it was not so much a conversation in which she blamed her offspring,...
View ArticleShaking the Wrinkles Out of Your Soul
Compare how you feel when you are enthusiastic to when you are not. The differences make themselves felt not only in your emotions, but also in the vibrational or energetic frequency of your body....
View ArticleCompanions That Shape Your Life
John (not his real name, all names in this post have been changed) was recently told he has a tumor. Malignant or benign, he will not know for about three weeks, after a series of tests and the...
View Article10 Reasons to Incorporate Gratitude Into Your Daily Routine
A multitude of scientific studies all give the same results: feeling and focusing on gratitude is highly beneficial for your physiological, psychological, emotional and spiritual health. More and more...
View ArticleWhy Giving Up Is Not An Option
Many people consider giving up at some point in their lives. They think they can’t go on – wherever they are going – and so they’re on the verge of throwing in the towel. They’ve given it their best –...
View ArticlePeople Who Drive You Crazy
People who drive you crazy may appear in many guises in your life. You may think that if only you could get rid of them, your life would be so much easier; so much less annoying; so much more...
View ArticleRelationship Pain
Who hasn’t been through relationship pain? Who hasn’t curled up into a ball (even if it’s inside your head) with the pain that some element of a relationship has caused? Who hasn’t wished that a...
View ArticleThe Games Your Ego Plays
I've always found the ego a fascinating subject. It keeps tripping us up and before we know it, it - the ego - is making decisions for us, instead of those decisions being made by us. For me - as well...
View ArticleJudging Others - Judging Yourself
Have you ever noticed how many people are inconsiderate? How often others just don't seem to be aware of anyone but themselves? How about the people that think they are worth more than others because...
View ArticleDo Your Relationship Boundaries Contribute to Your Well-Being?
Having healthy boundaries means that an individual has established visibly defined limits to the types of behavior by others (partners, children, colleagues, friends, etc.), which he/she considers...
View ArticleNature's Role in the State of My Spirit
When did you start appreciating beauty? When did you start noticing what it does to you on an inner level? When did you look at something out there in nature, and feel as though your heart had just...
View ArticleDealing With Illness - On All Levels
Being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness yourself, or having it happen to a person you are close to can be devastating. Adding more negativity to the picture, it is also very frightening and...
View ArticleBuild Even When Your Last Building Burned Down
I've often heard people say - especially those who have been burned once or twice - that they are unwilling to invest time in building up a new relationship unless they get some guarantees that it...
View ArticleThe Transforming Power of Anger
Anger may have a strong hold over you. Perhaps it is related to things that happened to you when you were small, or maybe you just never learned to control it well. You might have an explosive temper...
View ArticleImagine Life with no Bitterness or Resentment
I've often wondered if those people whose lives are filled with bitterness and resentment could just see for a moment in time what their lives would - could - be like without the bitterness and the...
View ArticleNot Minding What Happens
For a very large portion of my life, I've been intent on - and very conscious of - the desire to improve myself. Oh, I don't mean studying or learning more, or taking tennis or piano lessons, although...
View ArticleDo This Instead of Reliving Your Pain & Making it Worse
What can you say after a bad divorce, cancer diagnosis or any difficult news? When life gets really hard, when things happen that could throw you off your course, and when your mind keeps going over...
View ArticleNostalgia: The Aroma of Coffee
Emptying the grains of a packet of aromatic dark Costa Rican coffee into an airtight container earlier today, in my mind's eye I suddenly saw my maternal grandmother standing in front of me making the...
View ArticleProblems & Their Gifts
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. Richard Bach Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to...
View ArticleGiving Birth to Yourself
See sculpture credit below article Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author of The Art of Loving among many other books, wrote: A person's main task in life is to give birth to oneself. Giving birth to...
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