Shadow Dancing: Integrating The Shadow In Our Personal And Collective Psyche
Deep beneath the social masks and happy faces we present to the outer world, lurks a hidden shadow: an angry, wounded, fragmented or isolated part of us that we tend to bury or ignore. Integrating the shadow is essential for a balanced life. The shadow compounds all...
Seven Ways To Overcome Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort of self-image colliding with reality. Such collisions are inevitable, as self-image tends to be based on values - what is most important to you - while reality tends to be created around behavioral choices, expectations and...
Seven Lies We Tell Ourselves
The power of our minds can be harnessed to empower us. It can also sabotage our best intentions. Here are seven lies we commonly tell ourselves to indulge or to hide the truth from ourselves. To live our best lives, it is essential to recognize these self-sabotage...
Time Flies, Right! Letting Go Of The Struggle To Control Time
We measure time, stretch time, lose time, kill time, and still never have enough time! In the process, we actually lose touch with the events of life that hold true meaning. There is a way to uncouple from the struggle to control time, and to start living in the wonder of each moment. Here’s how…
Individuation: Its Cost and Benefits
Human beings are strange and miraculous creatures. From our first moment in life we hurtle toward uniqueness and individuation. We seek it out individuation at all cost, yet this sense of individuation comes at a price: for every door we step through, any number of...
Chronic Worry? How To Be Happy Instead
Worry happens to all of us, but there's a kind of worry that not threatens your success; it is downright dangerous to your health. This is chronic worry, and it makes you ruminate endlessly about anything that might go wrong. Chronic worry about life’s events won’t...
The Four Phases of Emotional Healing
Emotional healing is an organized process which goes through four distinct, orderly phases similar to physical wound healing where missing cellular structures and layers of tissue are replaced. The four, often overlapping, phases of physical and emotional wound...
Developing Emotional Resilience
Even though most of us resist change, it offers unique opportunities to develop physical, mental and emotional resilience. People respond to change in two major ways: those who avoid change at all cost, and those who look for constructive ways to navigate through the...
Befriending Problems
When we look out at the world, we see situations everywhere that appear to be broken and need fixing. What would happen if we could befriend problems and life crises as opportunities for growth instead? There is an active intersection between our own...
Freedom From Emotional Pain
Emotional pain can traumatize us long after the event that trigger it, but it does not need to! We can learn to let to and refocus on the present moment…
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