“If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, in Eat, Pray, Love The way you live starts in your head. Gain control over your life by gaining control over your thoughts. Why not choose the right thoughts? Why not direct your thoughts in the direction of what you truly desire? Why not develop the discipline to be selective, to get your thoughts focused like a laser rather than scattered in many directions? The focused mind leads to a focused life; a life where things get done, where goals are achieved, where your mission is accomplished. – We’ve been working on a new website! …
How to Resolve Power and Authority Issues
Power and authority issues are about as common as cockroaches in New York City (or bed bugs during those occasional outbreaks). They're unwelcome cohabitants in your life, and they're best eliminated as soon as possible.Putting aside the sacred right of all beings to live for the sake of the metaphor, you get the point. Power and authority issues are nothing but trouble, and actually, they cause more than just a bad night's sleep. They corrupt our relationships, our societies, and our governments. The greater the issues people have around power, the more likely they are to abuse power, act…
A Postnatal Depression Case Study – What is it Really Like?
by Natalie Trice It’s not uncommon to experience ‘baby blues’ after giving birth. For some women this goes away as quickly as it arrived. For others, it develops into full-blown postnatal depression (PND), a condition that is often hidden but can have a significant impact on you and your
Take the gig
“So often when we say we’re unqualified for something, what we’re really saying is that we’re scared to try it, not that we can’t do it.” – Jen Sincero You were drawn to the opportunity for a reason. Maybe, today, you just don’t understand all aspects of that reason. But you recognized the opportunity, you responded to it. And today fear is kicking in. You’re feeding yourself all sorts of self-…
The “Turn”
Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can’t prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you’re presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in … Continue reading →
Poems of Wisdom: Rabindranath Tagore on Why One Should Have a Fearless Mind
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not … Related posts: Learn a Wise Frightful Lesson from Halloween’s Children Poem of Wisdom by James Allen: Knowledge Poetic Wisdom: ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling
It’s not your ego
“Watch your swagger.” There’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. Be confident, and manage the ego. Don’t let your ego be more obvious than your expertise. Ego, unchecked, gets in the way of ideas. It limits creativity, it constricts connection to your world. Your attractor factor is your creativity, your confidence, your ability to connect. It’s not your ego. – We’ve been working on a new website! Whenever we read these posts, we’re inspired to write our own private thoughts. Now you can write your own private thoughts at 130words.com. It’s easy. It’s
11 Ways to Decrease Relationship Stress
Stress has an insidious way of undermining every aspect of our health and happiness. Nowhere is this more obvious then in our closest and most valued relationships. Have the anxieties and pressures of daily life or a constricting economy begun to seep into your home life? When we are feeling the effects of stress, we need to feel that our home is a safe haven where we can find relief and comfort. A happy relationship can make all…
5 Motivational Tips To Keep You Going Through Tough Issues
Dealing with many internal issues can take us into some tough stuff. It can feel like grinding our way through an iceberg, and whenever we get into these old pains, this is when we hear the ego screaming the loudest. It shouts, "I never should have done this spiritual healing thing," or "Why did a spiritual awakening have to happen to me?"And it has many other shouts, threats, fears, and additional issues that it piles on top of whatever issue you may be working…
Female, Over 30, and Anxious? It Could Be “Menopause Anxiety”
For decades, anxiety in middle-aged women was dismissed as female temperament, or despair over loss of youth. It was finally conceded that women, too, could have a midlife crisis. Yet modern studies show that women become happier as they age, while men do don’t. So then why the discrepancy? It turns out the cause is often the …
Wisdom Books: Rediscovering Plato by Norman D. Livergood
The Greek thinker Plato (428-348 BCE) speaks trenchantly to us today about twenty-first century barbarism,” writes author Norman D. Livergood in the introduction to Rediscovering Plato and the Mystical Science of Dialectic. “No other single thinker offers us the weapons to defeat contemporary oppression and ignorance.”A demonic cabal has seized power and imposed a fascistic … Related posts: Wisdom Books: The Complete Works of Plato What is Wisdom but the Vanquishing of Ignorance? Wisdom Books: The Awakening of Intelligence by J. Krishnamurti Practice & Apply the Wise Old Art of Alchemy From Within Wisdom Books: “Cutting Through” Volumes 1, 2, 3 by Alan Watt
Think abundance
“Think abundance.” If you decide there’s not enough to go around, you’ll find you’re right. If you decide there is more than enough to go around, you’ll find that’s true too. Which will you choose? Which will you pursue? A world of fear, hoarding and scarcity? Or a world of confidence, sharing and abundance? Which you choose is what you get. – We’ve been working on a new website! Whenever we read these posts, we’re inspired to write our own private thoughts. Now you can write your own private
Focusing on Reality
A great spiritual tool for growing in consciousness after a spiritual awakening is simply this: focus on reality.What is real right now?What is actually happening in your current physical experience?So often our triggers lead to inner threats about our future or repeats of past pains, and they have no bearing on what is actually happening in the moment. When the mind is this out-of-sync with reality, this shines a big bright light on problems with the ego. Along with that, seeing that we aren't in any actual danger allows us to let go more deeply to process whatever pain that may be surfacing. Remember that a past event we are feeling …
Observations From The Unplugged
My commute runs along the Hudson River. I stand on the platform every morning and look at the birds, the boats, the river, the opposite shore. I look at my fellow commuters and they are all looking down. At their … Continue reading →
5 Mindfulness Apps to Help You Stay Centred
Approved by the NHS and even trialled in Parliament, mindfulness is everywhere lately. The buzz around it makes it seem like a revolutionary new concept. Based on ancient Eastern meditation practices, mindfulness simply refers to the ageless idea of being fully aware of the now moment instead of fretting about the past or the future. Sound …
How Do You Feel When You Wake Up? Can Determine How Your Day Will Be
HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN YOU WAKE UP? When you first wake up in the morning what do you think to yourself? Are you a positive person who believes its going to be a good day or are you a negative person that thinks only of all the responsibilities you have to do. You dislike having to go to work or you worry about all of the bills to pay? No doubt it can be stressful and uncertain. But our thoughts can make it either better for ourselves…
Never a day
“Nulla dies sine linea.” – Horace, 65 BC Never a day without a line. Take the time to write. To capture on paper what you learned today. To capture ideas and quotes and experiences. To capture your critical thinking. Whether a dollar store composition book, or an expensive, leather-bound journal – commit to write in it and increase its value. In the process, you increase your value. Make it priceless. – We’ve been working on a new website! Whenever we read these posts, we’re inspired to write our own private thoughts. Now you can write your own private …
Finding and Embracing the Real You
The honeymoon is overAnd we find that dining by candlelight makes us squint,And that all the timeI was letting him borrow my comb and hang up his wet raincoat in my closet,I was really waitingTo stop letting him. – Judith … Continue reading →
Quotes of Wisdom: Proverb on Seeking Truth Over Ignorance
He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool – shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple – teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep – wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is … Related
Beyond the self-murdering lies
“Stop the self-murdering lies.” You’re killing yourself, dying daily, when you dismiss your worth, when you underplay your value, when you engage in undue self-criticism that feeds self-hate. Stop it. If you won’t love you, how can you expect others to love you? How can you thrive? How can you discover and then share with the world your wonderful talents and passions and creative impulses if you smother your soul with the vocabulary of self-derision, the burden of perfectionism, the fear that you’re just not good enough. Stop it. You are…
Who Needs Approval?
There are certain core needs shared by every person on the planet. Some of these needs are physical such as food, water, and air. We also have emotional needs. Once our physical needs are met, filling our core emotional needs becomes our number one priority in life. The need for approval fits into this category. Whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, the desire for validation is one of the strongest motivating forces known to man. Whose validation do we want? Well, it all depends on whose opinion we value most. A child wants …
Webinar: Spiritual Awakening Stages and Cycles
I recently wrote a blog post about different spiritual awakening stages and cycles, but I wanted to take time in a webinar to answer some of your questions on this topic. If you haven't read the blog post, you can do so on the link below:Spiritual Awakening StagesOne of the things I like to emphasize is that awakening is not linear. So the idea that you go from spiritual awakening stage 1 to spiritual awakening stage 2 to spiritual awakening stage 3 is generally speaking incorrect, although there are some shifts from which you generally do not go backwards. In speaking about spiritual awakening stages, we should not be harboring the idea that we'll get to …