Psychological Health
Awareness We are aware of one thing at a time. This ‘one thing’ can be complicated – say a car or rail timetable. It will have different parts and qualities. But usually we are aware of one aspect of the thing at a time. The shape of the car, then its colour, fuel economy, environmental [...]
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This post was prompted by a comment in the box in the sidebar asking you about your greatest difficulty living an authentic life. The comment was, Figuring out what I’m really thinking and then acting on it. It seems to me that this difficulty has two stages: confusion (“figuring out what I’m really thinking”), and; [...]
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In the last post I suggested that everybody is sane – that is (usually) our behaviour makes sense to us and we have good reason for doing what we do. To another person it may seem futile or unnecessarily difficult – but usually not to us. The question that arises from this is: How do [...]
A rule of thumb I have is that “everybody is sane”. I don’t mean this literally exactly. But I want to put it starkly like this to emphasise the importance of the point, which is that: I Make Sense (to me) The point is that almost always a person’s way of behaving makes sense [...]
This year I plan to do some longer posts that go into a subject in more detail and depth. This is the first one of this style. If you would let me know whether you like this style of post or not (or what you like and dislike about it) I’d be very grateful, thanks, [...]
It is that time of year where bloggers write about resolutions and goals and starting anew and such. I thought I would add my (slightly unusual) take on such things. We Never Start (Entirely) Fresh We grow from where we are. We are a combination of our parents genes with a little random luck [...]
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When we are healthy we have a sense of what is enough. We don’t eat until we are sick, we spend enough by ourselves and enough with others, we know when our muscles are tired from exercise, we know when we have done enough of a particular activity. Which makes greed interesting. I think greed [...]
I think “controlling” your emotions is a rotten idea, here’s why. Living Whole When we are acting with all of us this experience has depth and satisfaction. This is true even if we are dealing with something awful – like mourning the death of someone we loved. If we bring all of us to [...]
What I Don’t Know Who will make the changes that they want to make is mysterious. It is not the degree of trauma. Some people with horrific trauma make the changes. Some of those who grew up in very good circumstances don’t. It is not degree of education. Some of those with little education make [...]
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There is usually an issue at the core of our lives. Sometimes we don’t know what it is. Sometimes we do. In my case I didn’t. I had spent my life trying to be good at stuff. I had investigated a couple of areas I loved and learned stuff about them. I was an OK [...]
