There are definitely times we shouldn’t trust our feelings or our thoughts. I got rear ended today on the way to pick my daughter up from school. (I’m okay.) Once I got home and was able to just sit still for a minute, I immediately felt a huge wave of sadness. If I hadn’t been […]
Chores
Personal growth gone awry
Some of the ideas in personal growth have been taken far too far and consequently produce some negative consequences ~ specifically: the rule that we have to always be positive, and the idea that negative emotions are wrong and we shouldn’t have them. The all-out commitment to positivity often results in denial. And, there is […]
It is okay for me to get rich while doing good???
It is okay for me to get rich while doing good. What happened when you read that sentence? For a lot of people, that sentence pressed some buttons – total head trash buttons. Which means that things are totally backwards. That is the way we should become rich – by doing good, contributing to others, […]
At What Point Does Your Head Explode?
Why Make It So Complicated???
Something weird just started happening with my email. A handful of email addresses trigger “Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender” because I’m somehow on the spamhouse zen list. (So, I get blocked while trying to email some info to another computer in my own house.) The return emails have a link that is supposed […]
The Other Side of the Coin
Using Emotions To Grow Yourself
Emotions mean that something is important to us. By simply getting curious about “what here is important to me” when we are experiencing a negative emotion, we can already begin to diffuse a negative emotion. We move out of reactive consciousness and into witness or observer consciousness. We can then also learn about ourselves and […]
The Wisdom of Life
Life sends us the experiences we need – not always the experiences that we want. A friend told me about a recent experience that pushed just about every one of her major buttons. I said, “Wow! Isn’t life just perfect – sending you exactly what you need to grow and develop!” She laughed and said, […]