Posts Tagged ‘challenges’

Why Are You Doing This to Me?

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

So long as we’re stuck in the ‘me-centered’ universe of adulthood, challenges and adversity will continue to appear to us to be focused on us (because that’s where our unconscious focus lies, and that’s the perspective from which we view everything that happens around us).

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When They Stop Listening

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Apart from outright physical and emotional abuse, I believe that many (if not all) relationships “on the rocks” could be healed under the right circumstances. From my perspective, the fact that this healing so often fails to take place could be an indication that one or both of the partners have stopped listening. Additionally, ceasing to listen indicates a spiritual problem.

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The Great Responsibility Escape

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

The dirty little secret that we all pretend that nobody knows about comes down to this: transitioning through middle age brings with it all kinds of convenient excuses for not doing whatever it is that we’d rather not do.

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It’s Always Something — If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Yes, there are strategies that you can adopt to manage life’s frequent unpleasant surprises. Like most life strategies that empower you to handle the issues that midlife throws at you, almost all of these strategies involve simply changing your mind to see the reality that life presents you in a different light.

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The Courage to Change

Monday, June 15th, 2009

The truth is that, when it comes to change, together we can do what we cannot do alone.

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