Relationships are under a lot of pressure these days and I want to help. There are certain basic guidelines that can benefit any two people trying to build a truly happy and meaningful relationship. Here are 10 of my favorite timeless guidelines for building a better relationship. 10 Timeless relationship guidelines 1. Listen with your ears and your heart. It is…
Numbing Yourself to Life and Over-stimulation
As a whole, Western Society is heading down a very strange path. On the one hand, we have learned how to numb ourselves to pain. We numb ourselves in a variety of ways so that we can't hear thoughts we don't want to hear, feel emotions we don't want to feel, and can't sense physical pain that we don&#…
What is Compassion-Focused Therapy?
Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is a kind of psychotherapy designed to help those who suffer from high levels of self-criticism and shame. It helps you to learn how to feel kinder towards yourself and others, and to feel safe and capable in a world that can seem overwhelming. Founded by British clinical psychologist Paul Raymond Gilbert, CFT is an …
Choose your battles carefully
“Don’t die in the fight.” Stand your ground, but don’t die in the fight. Choose your battles carefully. Know when it makes sense to dig in, when the time and circumstances are right. And if the time’s not right, live to fight another day. The post Choose your battles carefully appeared first on Healthy Mind Heart Body.
Getting Back Out There: Publisher’s Weekly Review
I will be posting some excerpts in the coming weeks. First review for GBOT (the trades get the book about a month before release): Lawyer and grief counselor Elliott (Getting Past Your Breakup) offers readers humble and perceptive advice for … Continue reading →
Quotes of Wisdom: Boris Mouravieff on Material Comfort
Comfort, the prevailing word for Progress, in its many different aspects and to varying degrees, forms a sufficient aim for the majority of civilized men of our era. Under these conditions of our times, man is only open to divine values in carefully measured doses, kept within limits so that they do not trouble his … Related posts: Ancient Egyptian Wisdom: Akhenaten – The Pharaoh of Wisdom Quotes of Wisdom: Thomas Jefferson Quotes of Wisdom: David Hume On Truth, History & Religion Quotes of Wisdom: Manly P. Hall on God and Wisdom Quotes of Wisdom: Thomas Paine on Organised Religion
Why not be promiscuous?
“When was the last time you set out to be promiscuous in your failures?” – Seth Godin Showing up with ideas, innovation, creativity and achievement also means showing up with failures. Lots of failures, because that’s how you learn, that’s how you move forward in the real world. If you’re not ready to fail, not ready to fail often and sometimes massively, you’re not ready for massive achievement, massive success. Embrace failure, and in doing so prepare to embrace success. The post Why not be promiscuous? appeared first on Healthy Mind Heart Body.
Gratitude is Among the Top Advanced Life Skills
We all know that being grateful and appreciative is very beneficial, but have you ever thought of gratitude as one of the top life skills? Actually, it is more than that. Gratitude belongs in the category of advanced life skills because it can completely transform you life. In the face of challenges or mounting demands on your time, do you find it…
A Pebble in the Pond
Sometimes in life, your life starts to completely change itself over without you realizing it. It's a little pebble that got dropped into your pond, and a small ripple ran out from it. In most circumstances, that ripple runs out of energy and dissipates. The pond remains the same. But every now and then and with a little bit of grace, a pebble …
Thanksgiving: Giving Thanks
In the US, Thanksgiving is today. I wanted to touch on gratitude for a bit. If you’ve had a recent breakup or life isn’t exactly where you want it to be, being thankful for what you do have is a … Continue reading →
Chronic Stress Found to Trigger Mental Disorders Like Schizophrenia
Stress has been quite a headline stealer in the last decade, and it hasn’t all been negative press. Recent psychological studies have, for example, questioned the detrimental effects of workplace stress, and others point to the possible positives certain types of stress can offer if managed correctly. But the latest research on chronic stress, coming …
Expect nothing
“Give 110{2879bc8f2cf0c7badc0ba0b91bc88170008fa0b1cee68ceb4afb7fd46d4bfeb9}, expect nothing.” It’s about what you give, not what you get. Because what you give is what ignites passion. What you give gets you in flow; engaged with others, in connection with life. Expect nothing to have everything. The post Expect nothing appeared first on Healthy Mind Heart
7 Life Skills for Making Steady Progress
When it comes to change and growth, with the right life skills you can expect to make slow but steady progress. The idea of all or nothing and overnight success can be very appealing, but one reason so many people never achieve much is that big things take time. We may not want to hear it, but I deal in reality, not sales pitches. Whether you’re building muscle or losing fat, growing a business or developing a relationship, significant achievements are going to come slowly. It’s called growth. We live in …
Getting Back Out There
The new book will be released sometime next month or early January. In anticipation of its release, I’ll be posting some excerpts and blurb but if you have questions about getting back out into the dating/relationship scene…ask away!
Webinar: Spiritual Awakening and Letting Go of Your Old Life
Between a Rock and an Awakened PlaceMany people have a great deal of fear and anxiety around letting go of their old lives. It is the way most humans are conditioned socially and instinctually–to see the unknown as a threat. Letting go of the familiar ways of living takes us straight and unequivocally into the unknown. But then again, we have already been there. It is only through our illusions and delusions do we think that we can keep everything the same and that we know how anything will go in life. And holding on brings about no small amount of stress and upset, so once again, spiritual…
Is Low Self-Esteem Causing Your Depression?
Low self-esteem and depression come together so often the question becomes, which one causes the other? Two psychological views developed on this matter. On the one side is the ‘scar’ model, where depression is seen as eroding self-esteem. On the other side is the ‘vulnerability’ model, which believes low self-esteem brings on depression. Recent research …
Wisdom Books: Theosophy – A Modern Revival of Ancient Wisdom by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
This work deals with the great renaissance of ancient Oriental Esotericism in the Western world in modern times. This book is an attempt to present a unified picture of the Theosophic movement in its larger aspects. Contents: Theosophy, An Ancient Tradition; The American Background of Theosophy; Helena P. Blavatsky: Her Life and Psychic Career; From … Related posts: Wisdom Books: The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky Wisdom Books: The Emerald Tablets of Thoth Wisdom Books: The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception by Max Heindel Wisdom Books: “Cutting Through” Volumes 1, 2, 3 by Alan Watt Wisdom Books: Wisdom of the Knowing Ones by Manly P. Hall
Look up!
“How will you know how high to aim if you’ve never looked up?” You wouldn’t, and maybe you don’t. Too many don’t look up; they aim too low and pick the obvious, the easy targets. Too many fail to push themselves to their greater capabilities and capacities. And they fall short of what they could become; they settle for less. Why fall short of what you’re capable of achieving? Why not look up? Why not recalibrate your aim? The post Look up! appeared first on Healthy Mind Heart Body.
Enlightening Articles: ‘Money’ the perfect tool for Enslavement
Governments have been using money as a form of control ever since it ever existed. They have achieved this through their centrally controlled banks which they manipulate the flow and availability of money available to the public via interest rates. As today’s medium of exchange for goods and services, “Money” is what everyone is striving […
Tomorrow starts today
“People who are grateful see abundance everywhere.” – Hugh MacLeod Wealth is a state of mind, a way of experiencing your world. Gratitude triggers it. Economic cycles rise and fall, but you’re never poor when you’re grateful. Regardless of what’s in your bank account today, the truest wealth is measured by the size of your spirit, by the capacity of your heart to embrace all the
Medically Unexplained Symptoms – Can Counselling Really Help?
What are Medically Unexplained Symptoms? If you go to a doctor over an ongoing physical complaint and they cannot find an obvious physiological cause or detect the presence of a disease, you will be described as having ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ (MUS). Don’t feel alone in your diagnosis. 25{2879bc8f2cf0c7badc0ba0b91bc88170008fa0b1cee68ceb4afb7fd46d4bfeb9} of all visits to the GP in …
Amaze yourself
“Take back your power.” You have it. Maybe deep inside. And while you may have denied, feared, ignored, or somehow lost track of it, it’s waiting to be reclaimed and unleashed. You know it’s there; it never left.. Take it back. Work with it. Improve it. Leverage it in all you do. It’s a gift to be used. A gift to add value to your life and all you do. A gift to share with the lives of those you touch. It’s there waiting for you to reclaim it, to flip
Does Your Perception of You Match What Others Think?
Have you ever wondered how other people really feel about you? If one of your friends, business acquaintances, or family members were to be completely honest about the way they view you, what do you think their perception of you would be? The reason I bring this up is that many people are inclined to see themselves very differently than others see them. It is a natural tendency to just assume that the perception of others is similar to our own. But in reality this is seldom the case because we all see life through our own unique emotional filters. It can be very enlightening to step back and try to analyze yourself from a …
The Many Levels of Ego
You did it! You let go of something that had plagued you for years. You feel like you've come a long way, and you feel like so much ego crap that has kept you tied up in unhealthy patterns is gone. But no sooner than this release comes does a new perspective and deeper perception arise that thrusts the next level of ego crap right in your face. To the unskillful, this is demoralizing, and there is a sense that you have failed somehow. But quite the contrary, if you can see new levels of ego, this is because you have successfully let go of some old blockages that kept …