This is an article that I copied over to my blog… so I can talk about some of the differences between how main stream handles alcoholism and how I handle it. In my work, alcohol is an avoidance strategy: the person with the drinking would rather feel positive emotions, than deal with what there is … Continue reading “”
Life Is Like a Bruce Lee Movie – Create Positive Outcomes and Adventure With Your Mind
The gist of this article is to go within. Within really means: go to the vertical, instead of staying and living on the horizontal plane with all the drama, all the conflicts, all the bumping into this and that. Being fluid like water is only possible when you approach life from your vertical being… the … Continue reading “”
Why Knowing Yourself Is The Foundation Of Personal Growth
Know thyself… said the Greeks, and I can’t agree more. Unless you are clear about where you are, what are your limitations, what are your inner pulls (conation), your results in life will be puny, in every area of life. Know Thyself If men would search diligently their own minds, and examine minutely their thoughts … Continue reading “”
Spirituality and Personality: The Psycho-Spiritual Controversy
If you have been involved in either therapy or counselling, or spirituality and meditation, in recent years you have probably encountered two basic, polarized viewpoints concerning personality. Essentially it amounts to this: therapists are pro-personality (and its improvement through healing neurosis etc.) while spiritual teachers proclaim personality a big waste of time, since neurotic or … Continue reading “”
Maintaining Almost Daily Habits and Commitments
This article has a good idea… it suggests consistency as the way of establishing any new habit and making sure it will happen. Anything worth doing is worth doing every day… day in, day out. Meditation, spiritual work, being active, reading, learning… as a campaign they are all doomed to fail… but as a daily … Continue reading “”
How To Play An Active Part In Your Organization
In a Landmark Education Course I took back in 1987, I learned that it is possible to live life from a new conversation, a new context: “Life is a conversation” It is quite simple if you can wrap your mind around it, incredibly difficult if you are attached to the way you see the world.
Affirmations to Keep You on Track in Life
If you know me, you know that the misery I experienced in my life for 50 years drove me to many modalities of relief, including affirmations. Affirmations don’t work for me. Never did and never will. Why? Because affirmations are spoken from the mind: and the mind says so many things, a nice word here … Continue reading “”
Coming Out Of Grief – The Process And the Problem
This article deals with the stages of healing, healing your grief. Denial, anger, fear, and so on. The most important distinction I can add is: check your cone of vision. If your cone of vision is narrow, everything is colored or filled with your grief: the context of life becomes your grief, independent of the … Continue reading “”
What Is Sleep Hypnosis And How Does It Work?
Hypnosis is mysterious and peculiar. It is not fully understood. Some therapists are taught a very diluted version of hypnosis and they market themselves with statements about hypnosis that are not true. They are true to the techniques they use, but not to hypnosis. Here are six common misconceptions about hypnosis and their relevance to … Continue reading “”
Are You Committed to Happiness?
Commitments are powerful. They are life transforming. When you commit to doing something, doors open and paths appear. When you commit in word and action, people appear to support you in your quest. Commitment leads to change. Decide what you are committed to and your life will change in that direction. What is a commitment? … Continue reading “”