Tag: feelings
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Body Image Issues: How to Live in Our Own Skin
Body image issues are inherent in our culture. Women, as well as men, are healing this problem by waking up to what it is and how it operates insidiously within our culture and within individuals. Body image definition: ‘Body image refers to how people see themselves. Distorted body image (also called negative body image) refers to…
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Emotional Intelligence Coupled with Thinking
We can develop intelligent emotionality or feeling just as we can develop intelligent thinking. Emotions range from the most ecstatic love and appreciation to the most negative and painful. They are as significant to our inner nature as water is to our outer nature. When our inner water/emotion dries up or freezes over, our spirit…
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Holiday Stress
How we interact with Holiday Stress is where the relief happens. How we relate with overwhelming situations, feelings and time constraints is the skill that we are learning. Healthy stress and Unhealthy stress Healthy stress is the challenge we give ourselves to mature and grow in our life. Unhealthy stress makes us sick and depressed.…
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How to Make Use of Dark Feelings and Dixon White’s Example
There is an unexpected freedom that arises as we acknowledge the dark parts of ourselves; defensiveness, judgement of others, exaggerated entitlement, and participation with the “isms” racism, sexism, etc. This freedom comes about because it is exhausting and poisonous to defend a belief that is not true. It is poisonous to others and poisonous to…
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The Purpose of Hair Pulling Disorder
“I’m so frustrated, I could pull my hair out!!!” Feeling unbearable frustration and anger. Feeling so overwhelmed that pulling hair feels satisfying and grounding. Hair pulling creates a distraction until there is a better understanding and experience of the under-lying feelings. When feeling angry or frustrated, having stability or a sense of control can seem…
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God, A Useful Definition
Jung’s definition of God: “all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans, and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.” There are so many assumptions when the word God is tossed around. It is difficult to even say or read…
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Time for a Little Help
In a 2001 World Health Organization mental health report, it was estimated that, in the year 2000, obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD was among the top 20 causes of illness-related disability, worldwide, for individuals between 15 and 44 years of age. http://www.ocdeducationstation.org/ocd-facts/incidence-of-ocd The Mayo Clinic describes Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in the following: Obsession symptoms OCD obsessions…
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The Art of Suffering Emotional Pain
Everyone has emotional pain, some have less, some have more. Emotional pain is something we all share. What we do with it and what it does with us is the art and the work. Therefore, we are able to relate with emotional experiences to benefit our life. We are moving our life toward a conscious…
