There’s a psychological technique called gaslighting which is incredibly potent especially in persuasive situations.
A few nights ago I was watching TV, just flipping around aimlessly, and came upon an old episode of M*A*S*H. In this episode, BJ is bored and to entertain himself he...
New Age Spirituality Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 70 )
Here I was, concerned about the major problems I faced in life, and there was Theo telling me about trees. Yet, what he said truly made sense. Sometimes we are so busy with the things that seem important that we forget...
Success and happiness are not often thought to co-exist in todayfs society. As people work harder to accomplish more successful careers and more expensive toys, they find themselves unhappy with their lives. This is largely due to imbalance. People are spending entirely too much time working to...
My oldest son and I watched a movie from his great collection Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. There is a great quote in the movie which I was eager to use this week where Kevin Costner playing Robin Hood says, Nobility is not a birth-right; it is defined by ones actions.
The term Nobility...
New Age Spirituality Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 66)
Then how come you knew what I was thinking? I asked. Our thoughts became one for a little while, so I was aware of the essence of what was in your mind. You do that all the time, you know. How often in the past few years...
This new time in the history of planet Earth is creating a transformation of spiritual consciousness that is a quantum evolutionary leap for all of humanity. In times past, spiritual pursuits, spiritual awareness and spiritual growth we largely separate from the pursuits of ordinary life. In...
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” Scott Hamilton
Attitude is so important. It is probably the most important thing worth talking about in all the self -help material you will come across. Why; because attitude controls your mind which controls everything....
Have you ever wondered why you procrastinate? Procrastination is indeed a very strange behaviour and is a trap that all of us tend to fall into from time to time. On a conscious level you might want to do something or achieve something and although you know what you have to do, you still cant...
Let’s face it: not many of us like getting up in the morning to face the long day of work ahead. However, every working person still does this for his or her own personal reasons. These reasons make up a theory of motivation for going to work.
Most people do not work merely for the...
New Age Spirituality Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 65)
Yes, I remember now. Help is always there for us. We were not thrown into the cosmos as biological accidents. Were children of our Creator with the power to alter creation itself. Yes, I know all these things, but...
Bet you were hoping that I was going to offer some magic pill that you could take to make it all better, well sorry, it doesnt work like that. The thing is, there is nothing that can stop you from suffering from depression, except you. You might not like this much, but its the truth, and thats...
Each of us has an inner critic. There is no way to grow up in our society without having developed this inner critical voice which comes from parents, teachers, peers, the media, and from our own conclusions.
The problem is that this inner critic sounds like a voice of authority when in...