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ARTArticleThe Law of Sobriety: Attracting Positive Enery for a Powerful RecoveryThe law of Sobriety takes the principles of the Law of Attraction and puts them to work for the specific purpose - to help individual’s recover from their addictions, whatever that addiction might be including alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, food, co-dependency, love, and or shopping. However, in order to understand the Law of Sobriety, you need to understand The Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction states your life is related to your thoughts – both conscious and unconsciously – those thoughts we put out into the universe.ARTArticleThe Need To DoAs human beings we have an innate need “to do”. We build, we repare, we create. We use tools, and if we don’t have the appropriate tool at hand, we create one. We use and manipulate all forms of media, including space. We occupy our environment and we change it as our needs require.ARTArticleThe Promise of the New Year for Those Who Know Rage or Destructive AngerOne of the most important tasks for those suffering from rage and/or destructive anger is to free themselves of past frustrations or disappointments. Every 12 step program has as step 4, "we made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." We must be able to confront our past for one very simple reason. Until we release the things of the past we cannot move forward.ARTArticleToo Busy to Meditate? Think Again!The benefits of meditation are many and varied from reducing stress, blood pressure, heart attacks, and strokes to increasing one’s cognition and creativity. As well meditation decreases our need for sleep by heightening our concentration, allowing us to be more productive. Ray Kroc, who took over McDonald’s in its early days and built it into a business of outstanding success, once reported that he’d spontaneously fall into states of meditative reverie during the day and thus didn’t need a lot of sleep.ARTArticleTrust in LoveTake a breath right now, and notice how abundant the air is, full of life-giving oxygen offered freely by trees and other green growing things. You can't see air, but it's always available for you.
Love is a lot like the air. It may be hard to see - but it's in you and all around you.ARTArticleTrust YourselfAs I grew up, at home and school it felt dangerous to be myself - my whole self, including the parts that made mistakes, got rebellious and angry, goofed around too loudly, or were awkward and vulnerable.
Not dangers of violence, as many have faced, but risks of being punished in other ways, or rejected, shunned, and shamed.ARTArticleTry a Softer ToneLinguists like Deborah Tannen have pointed out that most communications have three elements:ARTArticleTune Into OthersImagine a world in which people interacted with each other like ants or fish. Imagine a day at work like this, or in your family, aware of the surface behavior of the people around you but oblivious to their inner life while they remain unmoved by your own.
That's a world without empathy.ARTArticleUnconscious Mind Awareness and Telepathic DreamsAlthough one might not label it is as such, I suspect most people have had a telepathic experience in their life. You think of someone and they call or email minutes later, or start humming a song, turn on the radio, select a station and hear the same song playing. There are many examples of mind to mind communication, and the power of sending and receiving thought, in Amazing Stories about Instincts and Intuitions, my blog site. What is interesting to note, is that the majority of these events occurred during wakened hours.ARTArticleUsing The “Cognitive Therapy for the Holidays” Worksheet To Reduce Your Holiday StressTry a little cognitive therapy to reduce your holiday stress. Cognitive therapy examines the thoughts and beliefs that lead to feelings, and thus to behavior. Everyone has some cognitive distortions which are irrational ideas, thoughts, or beliefs, that get in the way of optimal functioning. People acquire these cognitive distortions in many ways, including family of origin, cultural norms or biases, and personal experiences. Cognitive distortions are often a major symptom of mental health problems such as depression, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders.ARTArticleWelcome JoyPositive emotions – such as feelings of gratitude, love, and confidence – strengthen the immune system, protect the heart against loss and trauma, build relationships, increase resilience, and promote success. Based on studies that have already been done, if a drug company could patent a happiness pill, we’d be seeing ads for it every night on TV.ARTArticleWhy Keywords MatterIf you've had any experience of trying to set up a blog or a website and tried to make money out of it, odds are you have come across the term keywords. Quite often there is a sort of mystique about what keywords are and how important they are.
A keyword is very simply any term that anyone enters into a search engine box when they are looking for something.The search engine then delivers a number of results back to you based on their searching web pages based on that term.ARTArticleWork Anxiety And Taking Control: 4 StepsAnxiety, according to dictionary.com, is “distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune.” Fear is defined at the same site as “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined.” So anxiety can be defined as “distress or uneasiness of mind caused by a real or imagined threat.” When you see work anxiety in that way, the 4 steps to deal with it practically write themselves.
The four steps to taking control of work anxiety are:rARTArticleWoundsWords hurt. Words can cause a wound. A deep wound. That wound can cause a scar. A scar that can cause difficulty in life from that point on.
Sometimes when we fight, we throw out hurtful words. Words that we do not actually mean but in the heat of the moment, we use to hurt someone. And that hurt is profound because we do not forget those words and the wound deepens.rARTArticleAccept DependenceWant to try a little experiment?
Stop breathing. Really. For a few seconds, maybe a few dozen seconds, and see how it feels.
For me, this experiment is an intimate way to experience a deep truth that we live dependently, relying on 10,000 things for physical survival, happiness, love, and success.ARTArticleAccept DifficultySometimes things are difficult. Your legs are tired and you still have to stay on your feet another hour at work. You love a child who's finding her independence through emotional distance from you. A long-term relationship could be losing its spark. It's finals week in college. You're trying to start a business and it's struggling. You've got a chronic health problem or a disability. Sometimes people don't appreciate your work. You're being discriminated against or otherwise treated unjustly. The body ages, sags, and grows weary.ARTArticleAccept ItAs general clusters that each include a number of specific methods, my Top 5 types of practices (all tied for first place) are:ARTArticleAccept Them as They AreI admit it: whether close to home or far away, I wish some people were different. Depending on who they are, I wish they'd stop doing things like leaving cabinet doors open in our kitchen, sending me spam emails, or turning a blind eye to global warming. And I wish they'd start doing things like being friendlier toward me or spending more money on public education. Even if it doesn't affect me directly, for their own sake, I do wish that various people I care about were more energetic, less anxious, or less self-critical.ARTArticleBe HelpfulWhy?ARTArticleBe HomeThroughout history, people have wondered about human nature. Deep down, are we basically good or bad?ARTArticleBlessLately, I've been wondering what would be on my personal list of top five practices (all tied for first place). You might ask yourself the same question, knowing that you can cluster related practices under a single umbrella, your list may differ from mine, and your practices may change over time.
In these JOTs, so far I've written about two of my top practices:ARTArticleChange the Channel<!-- wp:paragraph -->ARTArticleChoose to LoveMany years ago, I was in a significant relationship in which the other person started doing things that surprised and hurt me. I'll preserve the privacy here so I won't be concrete, but it was pretty intense. After going through the first wave of reactions - What?! How could you? Are you kidding me?! - I settled down a bit. I had a choice.ARTArticleCome to CenterI’m old enough to remember a time when people usually answered “good” when you asked them the standard, “How are you?” (often said “harya?”). These days the answer is commonly “busy.”
I know what it feels like to get very busy and start to feel dispersed: juggling a dozen priorities at any moment, attention skittering from one thing to another, body revved up, feeling stretched thin and spread out like being squished between two sheets of glass.ARTArticleCultivate Goodwill<!-- wp:paragraph -->ARTArticleDo Freely<!-- wp:paragraph -->ARTArticleDrop The "Shoulds"<!-- wp:paragraph -->ARTArticleDrop the LoadYou may have seen the old Mickey Mouse movie in which he is working at a conveyor belt in a factory. More and more widgets come at him that he must handle, and he gets increasingly frazzled as he struggles to keep up.ARTArticleEat RightThe easiest and usually most effective way to replenish your body is through good nutrition.ARTArticleEnjoy Four Kinds of Peace“Peace” can sound merely sentimental or clichéd (“visualize whirled peas”). But deep down, it’s what most of us long for. Consider the proverb: The highest happiness is peace.