Category: Beginners’ Mind!
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How Living In The Past Fractures Your Relationships + 5 Ways To Heal
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in ” Time “, Addictions, Anger, Beginners’ Mind!, Boundary Work!, Brain Science, Career, Challenges!, Consciousness, Depression, Embracing Change, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, Gratitude, Law of Attraction, loving and encouraging words for the day!, Mental and Emotional Health, Mindfulness, Relationships, skills for our tool kits, Stress management, Trauma, Wellness and PreventionBy Aletheia Luna When you reflect on your past, what do you think of and how do you feel? If you are like most people you are invigorated with distant memories of love and joy – perhaps you reflect on past romances, distant lands, old friends or small successes. But there is a flip…
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Intrusive thoughts? Try Focusing On Your Breath
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in Addictions, Beginners’ Mind!, Boundary Work!, Brain Science, Career, Challenges!, Consciousness, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, From my own teachers, Law of Attraction, Mental and Emotional Health, Mind-Body Healing, Relationships, skills for our tool kits, Stress management, Wellness and PreventionOur minds are not entirely under our control. Fyodor Dostoevsky noted as much in 1863, when he penned his famous white bear observation. “Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.” Over a century later,…
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Four things you think about too often*
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You do know you talk to yourself in your mind all the time, right? Pretty much every one of us has a non-stop stream of thoughts – a mental monologue – that has a powerful impact on how we feel, how we behave, and how we live our lives. Too often, this mental monologue consists…
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What to do when we’ve run out of hope?
Stop thinking. Get up out of bed. Take a shower. Get dressed. Drink a glass of water. Eat breakfast. Go for a walk towards somewhere pleasant. Pay attention to what is around you. Get immersed in the scenery. Appreciate the beauty around you.
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You are not your Story
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in Addictions, Beginners’ Mind!, Boundary Work!, Challenges!, Depression, Embracing Change, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, loving and encouraging words for the day!, Mental and Emotional Health, Mind-Body Healing, Relationships, skills for our tool kits, Stress management, The Drama Triangle, Trauma, Wellness and PreventionOn this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know… …that you are not your ‘story.’ Who You Are is so much bigger than that. It’s okay to give up your past now. Most of us have a story about how we got to be the way we are, about what it’s…
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Be Like Water…
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves…. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes…
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Opportunity !
To Take Advantage of Opportunity Now, at the New Year … or whenever you wish to start anew… 1. Begin. – Remember the feeling you get from taking the first step is far better than the feeling you get from sitting around thinking about it. So get up and get moving. Take the first step…
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7 Real Jedi Mind Tricks
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in Anger, Beginners’ Mind!, Boundary Work!, Brain Science, Career, Challenges!, Consciousness, Depression, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, Gratitude, Intuition, Law of Attraction, loving and encouraging words for the day!, Meditation, Mental and Emotional Health, Mind-Body Healing, Mindfulness, Quantum “Fun and Games”, Relationships, skills for our tool kits, Stress management, Wellness and Prevention7 Real Jedi Mind Tricks by Christopher Cordry Image by Gonzalo Martín “The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.” — Obi-Wan Kenobi I suppose there are some people who, when they first saw Star Wars,…
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Freeing Ourselves From Fear
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in Aging Beautifully!, Beginners’ Mind!, Boundary Work!, Career, Challenges!, Compassion, Consciousness, Dreams, Dreams & Dreaming, Embracing Change, Empowerment, Intuition, loving and encouraging words for the day!, Mental and Emotional Health, Relationships, skills for our tool kits, Stress management, Wellness and Preventionby Kate Eckman If you ask most people what they want from life, they will probably tell you they want to be happy—they want to be loved. Success, fame and fortune might come up, too. But I think what we ultimately yearn for is freedom. The freedom to be ourselves, especially in a world…