We have been told who the enemies are for the past few years loud and clear. It’s the left. It’s the right. It is the press which is the enemy of the people because they are all bad. It’s the traditional government officials because they are useless. It’s the Whites. It’s the Blacks. It’s the Hispanics or the Immigrants who can’t be trusted. These are the enemies, and we must fight them at all cost. Hurricane Harvey mirrored…..
Time to quit shaming people for not waking up on your schedule. It is hard not to lose your way with all the heated rhetoric. Yes, you must stand up for what you feel is morally good and loving. But what happens to that good and loving stance when you meet someone who was slow to come around? I watched different panels on TV berate a young man who had had the courage to admit he had made a mistake…..
FEELS LIKE OLD TIMES A young man writes a “memo” attacking women engineers as being not as bright as men because biology makes them “less”. A candidate running for Congress attacks a man from the press for asking a question he doesn’t like. The white house has close advisors who believe in conspiracies, white nationalism (racism), and that “might makes right.” Certain religious leaders embrace a president who pits Americans against each other for the chance to turn back the…..
How well do you really know yourself? “Living authentically” or “living my best version” has become a catch phrase in our culture. These ideas are no longer relegated to those of us in the new age or new spiritual- thought movements. The concept has gone mainstream. I can’t tell you how many ads I see playing on this idea. Live your best self, BUY this and it will get you there. I hear it often used by people on TV…..
How good are you at imagining the worst-case scenarios? How good are you at using your emotions to build up fear or anger or despair? How good are you are at reinforcing the very beliefs that keep you and your dreams in a small box? There is nothing magical about how we create our lives. When we combine imagination with intense emotion backed by a supporting belief, we naturally draw the experiences into our lives that match that vibration. So whether…..
Does your ability to have compassion come with conditions? I will have compassion for those caught in the Opioid crisis but not for those who struggle with Crack or Alcohol addiction after all no one made them into addicts. It is their fault. I will have compassion for my neighbor who lost her job and do all I can to help her out but not for those who are on welfare or who panhandle for money. They just need to…..
To have your head in harmony with your heart you must have your emotions in balance. To maintain emotional balance, you can’t decide some emotions are more important than others or that some emotions are deserving of your attention and others are not. You can’t let your mind tell you which ones matter. It is easy to own the big emotionally eruptions that happen inside of us. When that happens, most of us will go within and do the work……
Most of us have heard the saying: Love your neighbors as you love yourself. If we look around, it is pretty clear with all that is going on in the world, that we don’t love our neighbors. So does that mean we don’t love ourselves? I would say YES. When you get down to what it actually means to love yourself, there can be no reasonable answer other than we don’t love ourselves and it is being mirrored…..
“America the Beautiful – Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.” Land of the Free We know by heart many of the freedoms listed in our Bill of Rights –the freedom of religion, the freedom to bear arms, the freedom of assembly, the freedom of the press, the right to vote for all, and more. We may fight over their meaning or how to always implement them, but we take these freedoms very seriously. However, let’s take…..
“In this self-help guide, McClung (How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live, 2015) encourages readers to do “inner work” through meditation in order to facilitate spiritual healing. This short, intimate, and interactive guide In this self-help guide, McClung (How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live, 2015) encourages readers to do “inner work” through meditation in order to facilitate spiritual healing. This short, intimate, and interactive guide aims to help the reader explore,…..
