Category: The Nature of Thought

Drama

As much as minds love to solve problems, compare and contrast, pro and con, and create “someday” carrots to dangle in front of us with the promise of lasting fulfillment, perhaps the thing they do most naturally and most often is dramatize.buy cenforce online buy cenforce no prescription no prescriptionIronically, the drama can be hard

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Morning Dread

 Of all the questions people send to Ask Amy, a good number of them are loosely around what I call “morning dread”.People saying they wake up with a feeling of dread that dissipates throughout the day, but is immediate and strong in the morning and they want to know why.They want a reason. They want

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That’s Thought Too

I listen to a lot of recorded coaching sessions during the Change Coach Training. The coaches send me their sessions so that I can provide feedback.I often listen to their clients say things like, “I’ve listened to so many podcasts, why do I still feel bad?” Or, “I’ve been around this understanding for X months/years,

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I Can’t Handle it

Minds love dramatic statements. They also love ceilings, boxes, and limits.So, your brain will spit out all sorts of sensational statements that, if you don’t know better, you might be very tempted to take seriously.It’ll say things like “I can’t handle this”.“I don’t know how I’ll make it through.”“I’m lost. I’m floundering. I don’t know

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Regain Your Bearings

We had a nest of 6 baby bunnies in the bush outside our front door. I can’t even begin to express in words how adorable they were. Checking on these baby bunnies (from a safe distance, of course), discussing where their mother was, making bets on their birthday, provided hours of entertainment.We knew their time

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The Dinner Plate

In the LSBC curriculum, I ask students to imagine their psyche as a dinner plate. It used to look to me like all people were born with a clean, perfectly clear dinner plate. But little by little, life takes a toll on our plate. You get teased or left out–there’s a scratch on your plate.Some traumatic event

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More than Meets the Eye

It appears as if the experience we’re in–what we see, think, and feel–is the truth, reality, all there is. Our psychology–thoughts, feelings, and behavior–not only appear to be all there is, they also look personal and meaningful, like they are ‘us’ or ‘ours’.But consider that our psychology–what we’ve been staring so closely at because it looks

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Falling Away

Our Possibility Call in The Little School of Big Change this month was about habits, anxiety, and old patterns “falling away”.I use that phrase–falling away–often. And I get that it can be easily misunderstood. A mind will add a lot of assumptions and meaning to it. If a habit or issue “falls away”,  it must happen

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People like me

If you ask your mind to tell you what’s likely in your future, I bet it will. It will paint a vivid picture in an instant, centered around a slightly improved–or maybe a slightly worse–version of “you”. “You” is in quotes because it’s not really you, of course. It’s the “you” your mind sees. The “you” your

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Doubt

My kids tested for their yellow belts in TaeKwonDo last weekend. They were nervous. I was nervous for them. The test is two hours long, with a lot of spectators and a lot of moves to remember. The Grand Master thought Willow was ready to break a board with her side kick. When they suggested it, Willow’s

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