Category: Psychology and Relationships
These are very personal questions: What is spiritual to you? When and where do you feel spiritual? How do these spiritual feelings get blocked or expanded?
We can carry these questions throughout our lives. Spiritual practice aims to refine and deepen our understanding of them.
I will focus on three specific spiritual practices: psychological relationships, meditation, and psychedelic plant medicines, including cannabis.
Spiritual practice is about psychological relationships because if our spiritual practice doesn’t improve our relationships with others, what’s the point?
The practice of psychological relationships with others and with one’s inner life is a personal experience with spiritual meaning. This involves experiences of vulnerability, hurt, and confusion that teach us the depth of human love and kindness.
Spiritual practice is not only personal but also universal and objective. We need to look at our minds as they are, our human instincts as they are, and our relationship with the natural world. We are born, go through all the developmental stages, and then die. Life is both precious and painful. We cannot change most of life, but we can learn to connect with it gracefully, little by little.
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How to Help a Hoarder: A Basic Guide
When you think of hoarding, you might recall a television show called Hoarding: Buried Alive. If you’re one of those who haven’t seen this show, you should try to see it. Each episode details what it is like to be a hoarder and how interventions are staged. There is so much more work to de-cluttering…
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How to Deal with an Alcoholic and Help Them Recover
Alcoholism (otherwise known as Alcohol Use Disorder or AUD for short) is estimated to impact 15.1 million Americans over the age of 18 and 623,000 youths. Alcohol consumption is the third leading cause of death in the US, and studies indicate that almost half of those aged 12 and older who died from liver disease…
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How to Deal with a Sociopath: A Basic Guide
Chances are that you have heard the word “sociopath” used in conversation to describe a person who seems to have an exaggerated sense of self-importance and lacks any empathy for others. If so, you probably have working knowledge of what a sociopath is. But how do you know if you are dealing with someone who…
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Learning How to Overcome Jealousy and Avoid Bad Thoughts
Jealousy is an emotion that is complex and, therefore, pretty difficult to deal with. It is something that we all experience at different points in our lives and, for the most part, are able to cope with. However, there are certain situations that can cause us to not process our jealousy in a way that…
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How to Trust Again? Learning How to Keep Your Hopes Up
Trust is a key component in any type of relationship, including the relationship that you have with yourself. When that trust gets violated (which tends to happen multiple times from multiple people throughout our life), it is difficult to find out how to trust again. For some of us, when we feel that our trust…
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How to Let Go of Someone You Love?
Letting go of someone you love is one of life’s greatest challenges. It is something that we all end up going through at some point, but each one of us is impacted a little bit differently. For some of us, letting go means having to exit a toxic relationship. For others, it means moving forward…
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Transform Self Loathing
Self-loathing occurs when we harshly and brutally attack ourselves with our thoughts. These thoughts of not being good enough in some way are often rooted in previous experiences. And possibly childhood trauma. So overcoming them takes work. We’ve found some tips you can try the next time you experience self-loathing so that you can transform…
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Parental Alienation Syndrome – Causes, Symptoms, Treatments
Children are often far more perceptive than the adults in their lives are aware, and this is especially true in cases of parental separations and the ensuing child custody disputes. Blame, guilt, and other hostilities sometimes get broadcast in front of – or even directly toward – children. These events can take a physical and…
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Online Shopping Addiction – How It Happens, Symptoms, Treatments
In the Digital Era, it is almost impossible to avoid doing some shopping online, as many online stores carry things you might want or need that are not easy to find in regular brick-and-mortar shops. Online shopping provides many individuals the ease and comfort of finding what they need without having to make the trek…
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Inferiority Complex
There’s nothing nice about feeling less than, but it’s something that we all experience from time to time. Whether we’re just feeling down about ourselves or have been comparing ourselves to someone else and their achievements, the feeling of inferiority isn’t a nice one but it’s often fleeting. Some people never have this feeling pass through,…
