Some of us carry a so-called “stress-buster” in our pockets every day. In fact some of us would NEVER think of leaving home without them. Most of them come in a handy pack of 20 – some with a flip-top box! In order to use these alleged reducers of stress, one generally needs to light […]
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When I’m in the car – especially for a long time – at some point I’ll start thinking about junk food. My thoughts about food are not usually related to being bodily hungry, but tend to related to feelings. Negative feelings (anxiety, anger, etc.) can certainly provoke me to want to do something to soothe
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Flu season arrives every year, evidenced by people wearing masks over their mouths and noses. The signs go up and people get flu shots. Nearly every year, there’s an a surge in flu cases right after Thanksgiving, attributed to the fact that people travel from different places and see different faces! It is well a
No, this post is not about extraterrestrials. That may be a conversation for another day. But in a very healthy way, most of us are better when we’re connected to others – especially others who understand our situations. And I don’t mean someone who can whine with us and be miserable with us and complain
The things I THINKdetermine how I FEELwhich influences how I ACTwhat I will or won’t DOand ultimately determine who I am. Download the worksheet here: LawOfTheFunnel The order is easy to remember; it starts with a 5 letter word, followed by a 4 letter word, a 3 letter word, a 2 letter word and a 1
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I guess this may be a continuation of an idea I wrote about recently. Sometimes it seems like the woods woos us to come, to look, to listen, to wander and ponder. So does it seem to you that sometimes hope is hiding? Requiring you to move, to go, to stoop, to kneel, to stretch?
As we continue to talk and think about how we come to know who we are, I thought it might be good to weigh in with the world of psychology. According to Carl Rogers, the self-concept has three different components. (Sources cited below) The view you have of yourself (Self-image) How much value you place
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It’s out there. It’s always out there. It’s always out there even when we don’t take time to see it, to appreciate it, or to let it move us. Every season has its inherent beauty and even in the midst of a vast urban cityscape, there is natural beauty. Snowfall has a way of making
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Today Holds Gifts Today holds gifts for those with hearts to see. Capture one of the beautiful moments in this gift of a day. Allow that beautiful moment to sink into your head and your heart. Savor it, relish it, feel it, smell it breathe it in, hold that moment… Recall it with gratitude throughout
Remember that cigarettes are just like squirrels! Until you put one in your mouth and try to set them on fire, they’re both perfectly harmless! =) Keeping it light on a Friday, folks! Let’s go make some folks laugh. Good, clean, fun and laughter are #GoodMedicine (without those pesky child-proof lids!) So let’s find a
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If you asked people if they’d like to live in a kinder world, you could safely predict a nearly unanimous response. Who wouldn’t want to live in a world where people were kind? And if you asked if such a world would ever exist, lots of folks would shrug and reply, “Maybe SOMEday.” And some
This weather usually makes me think of the birds. In the winter I am usually quite dutiful about making sure there is food for them. It occurred to me that I enjoy feeding them. The birds don’t text me and remind me to pick up seed while I’m shopping. I usually remember without a prompt.
There will never be a lack of darkness in the world. It may even be part of the essential balance in the universe. But if, in that moment when the darkness begins to sap our energy, we can focus our light on others, we will likely find we become less troubled by the darkness. What
You will never speak to anyone more than you speak to yourself in your mind. If you had a friend, and every day you called them mean names, how long would they remain your friend? And if you daily expressed doubt about their ideas and reminded them often of all of their past failures, how
Some unhappiness is caused by real loss, and such unhappiness tends to become more bearable as time passes. If you feel unhappiness of this sort today, my hope is that you will find solace as time passes. There is another type of unhappiness or distress which is caused by aspects of our lives being out
