True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship. But true listening is a rare skill. Usually, the greater part of a person’s attention is taken up by their thinking. At best, they may be evaluating your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or they may not be listening at all, lost in their own thoughts. Continue reading
Psychology
A grievance is baggage of old thought and emotion
It requires honesty to see whether you still harbor grievances, whether there is someone in your life you have not completely forgiven, an “enemy.” Continue reading
Consider humor the “Vitamin H” of a healing regime
Develop a Sense of Humor
Defined as the ability to laugh with others, laugh at ourselves, and discover humor in everyday life, a sense of humor is essential as an emotional coping tool. Humor provides a greater capacity to forge through the most adverse of situations.
Thought of the week – 17th December 2018
Small Wins
“Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage, Once a small win has been accomplished, forces are set in motion that favour another small win.”
“Small wins fuel transformative changes by leveraging tiny advantages into patterns that convince people that bigger achievements are within reach.”
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
சிறு துளி பெரு வெள்ளம் ( Little Drops Make the Mighty Ocean)
Whatever is inside is what will spill out
I love this analogy!
You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.
Why did you spill the coffee?
Is there scientific proof we can heal ourselves? Lissa Rankin, MD
“Your body hears everything your mind says.” ~ Naomi Judd
( Watch this video till the end to get real value )
To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence, would not be good for business.
“THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more?
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Value of authentic connection
“The human need for psychological contact is strong enough that even moderate increases in psychological contact are of great personal and psychological value to clients. If a client connects with another human being while he or she is making sense in some ways but not others, this in itself is likely to bring a lessening of that client’s existential aloneness and anxiety.
The Real Identity Theft
The philosopher Owen Flanagan puts it this way: “We are born into families and communities with an image of persons already in place. We have no say about the location in space of images into which we are born. The image antedates us, often by centuries. . . . Once we reach an age where we do have some control, we work from the image, from the story that is already deeply absorbed, a story line that is already part of our self-image.” We can become stout defenders of that self-image even as it becomes less and less about ourselves and more and more about an externally imposed image…..
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