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Protect and maintain your empathy, and our shared presence.
Fear doesn’t necessarily take you out of mutual presence and empathy with the rest of the universe, but anger does. Anger is a pushing away, an effort to resist, to distance, and to separate. Anger is an emotionally energetic effort to push away fear, and pushes all...
The magical effect of allowing the release and flow-through of all the energy you’ve been expending to try to stop what you need to process
In processing the energies of any painful feelings, it is hugely advantageous to allow the flow of all the energy you’ve been putting into trying to stop or resist the painful feeling. Once you open up to release through you the energy flow of your trying to resist,...
“There can be no greater self-sabotage…”
You should never let fear be a deterrent to pursuing, accepting, feeling or expressing love. There can be no greater self-sabotage than to deny love. And yes, of course, this includes letting yourself love yourself, and letting go of any and all attitudes that get in...
About that little feeling of vindication when you are exhibiting, displaying, explaining or complaining to someone about what you have been going through.
Feeling a need to deny that all your circumstances and experiences manifest from your own desires for them? See if you can’t notice that little feeling of vindication when you are exhibiting, displaying, explaining or complaining to someone about what you have been...
The most dangerous of all illusions.
What traps you in shock and anxiety is the feeling that there are things that you must hold onto, that you must not lose, the idea that there is something that you cannot be without, that is not readily available. It is the most dangerous of all illusions. Your...
Life is what is, not what was.
Analyzing things, “intellectualizing“ experience, rationalizing what occurs, these are all superficial substitutes for simply being present, having, accepting and feeling what is present. Rather than resorting to “thinking“, be present, so as not to miss the moment....
All that seriousness!
The more seriousness you attach to or pump into any part of life, the sillier you are being. There is no fuller resolution of anything with troubling feelings attached to it than to arrive at laughter about how seriously you have been creating it as being.
What doesn’t kill you…
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is something people say to make a person feel better when they are going through something very challenging to experience. However, it is a misleading statement. That which does not kill you can leave you crippled if that is...
The philosophy of gratitude is really all about knowing and appreciating that all that you desire is actually already here…
You think that everything is a matter of “making it happen”. A million types of life coaches are based in “make it happen”. “Work harder”, “shoulder to the wheel”, “make plans”, “use the right system”. Well, I’m not saying there isn’t any place for that in the world,...
If you will let it be their game and not yours, It will remain so.
You never, ever, want to allow yourself to be baited into the gameplaying of a malevolent person, you never want to allow yourself to have thoughts of vengeance. But in truth, when you encounter someone who expresses an ugly attitude, there is nothing worse that you...