Feelings
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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I would like to introduce you to Ian Peatey. He writes his blog about one of the most hopeful, and I think one of the more important, movements on our little planet – Nonviolent Communication. I will let him fill you in on the details in this post. He tells the story through his own [...]
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Our culture values control – and the favoured way to do this is rationally. I don’t mean to suggest that being irrationally out of control is preferable. In my experience if I try to control myself too much I rebel – so that too much control is likely to lead to an irrational lack of [...]
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Overemphasis on Thinking Our western culture I think overestimates the importance of thinking. For instance, our schooling (which I refuse to call education) is almost entirely focused on thinking. In Australia of late there is a push of the ‘back to basics’ variety – the basics being reading, writing and ‘rithmatic. The basics are not [...]
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Just a quick link to a great post by Chris Edgar. It’s about taking back your self-control from habits (you know when you’ve found yourself doing the habit before you realise – the cigarette is already alight and in your mouth, or you’re already in the middle of that argument again.) Good, practical advice and [...]
Image by Brian Hillegas A reader asked me to write on the connection between our feelings and our illnesses and disorders. Here is what I have to say. I’ve actually written about it as part of a bigger subject – how our feelings affect other aspects of our experience and how the other dimensions of [...]
Image by whiskymac People are social beings. In modern society I find it impossible to imagine how a person could lead an entirely separate existence – even if someone wanted to. And not many of us want to. For most of us our treasured moments are about connecting with others. We want to connect with [...]
