Psychology

Run your own Race

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I was jogging this morning and I noticed a person about half a mile ahead. I could guess he was running a little slower than me and I felt good, I said to myself I will try catch up with him.

I had about a km before I needed to turn off. So I started running faster and faster. Every block, I was gaining on him just a little bit. After just a few minutes I was only about 100 feet behind him, so I really picked up the pace and pushed myself. I was determined to catch up with him.Image result for jogging Continue reading →

Focus on what is holding you together

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Image result for Tearing ThoughtsI often refer to tearing thoughts. These are thoughts that attack us, like “I am weak. I am worthless. I am no good. That-other person is better than I am”. Tearing thoughts are an extraordinary psychological phenomenon. When cells take the wrong path and start to attack the organ they live in, we call it cancer. Tearing thoughts are a kind of autoimmune failure of the mental body. Continue reading →

Pressure is a force applied from the outside. Intensity is a power that comes from within you…

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The only thing that thrives on pressure is a tire. Now, you might be one of those people who says, “but wait, I use pressure all the time in order to produce results.” Notice that I used the word “thrive”. Yes, you might be producing the results but not in a way that takes care of you.Image result for intensity Continue reading →

The fear of ‘what might happen’

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Related imageNothing, Jung said, can be changed unless it is first accepted. Until then, a condition remains un-approachable and ominous. The same wisdom is found in an ancient fable. Continue reading →

The Only Thing I can Change is Myself

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The greatest reason for our need to know ourselves is that we may become greater channels for the expression of the living spirit in helpfulness to others.

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Self Discovery and then Self Healing

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Image result for self discoveryWhether we are dealing with a student who is maladjusted, or a marriage which is skidding toward failure, or a war neurosis, the essentials of a therapeutic experience seem to be the same. Continue reading →

Book Recommendation : On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers

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On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by [Rogers, Carl]

“I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of this process I have called the good life, even though the person in this process would experience each one of these at the appropriate times. Continue reading →

getting what you want…

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Related imageContrary to most people’s opinion, getting what you want has very little to do with being worthy, deserving or even earning it. Getting what you want is a matter of you vibrating at the same frequency as that which you wish to attract into your life….. Continue reading →

I must create in order to know myself

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Image result for aaron copland quotesWhy is it so important to my psyche that I compose music ?….And why is the creative impulse never satisfied; why must one always begin anew ? Continue reading →

The larva does not change into a butterfly but instead becomes the fulfillment of its potential

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Q: how does a spiritual practice actually result in change? What are the psychological mechanisms? How can one change from a ‘this’ to a ‘that’? Continue reading →