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,…..
Fear only requires one thing – and enemy to focus upon. The man who shot a congressman and others focused his fear on Republicans. The cop who shot a man reaching for his wallet in his car focused his fear upon black men. The man who knifed and killed people in Portland focused his fear upon Muslims. The group of young men who beat and tied to a fence a young gay man focused their fear upon gays. The people who…..
Too often we look outside of ourselves for proof of our value or worth. Do you look to others to offer you the appreciation for a job well done? Do you dissect the words offered or sometimes withheld as evidence to whether you are good enough? Do you constantly look to others to make you feel good about yourself? And are you disappointed or outraged when they do not? You may demand that others recognize your value or…..
The Heart of the Matter offers a lifelong process for learning and acting from self-love. Joffre McClung’s The Heart of the Matter is a thoughtful, thought-provoking book that challenges individuals to live their lives anchored in the truth of self-love. Through interesting discussions, challenging questions, and daily meditations and affirmations, the book offers a course that anyone can take to find self-acceptance. This work is clearly and simply organized. There are three parts. The first part consists of…..
