Category: The Nature of Thought

Squashed Illusion

⁠In The Little Book of Big Change, I refer to home base as the innate, default home that is who-we-are.⁠⁠It’s our natural set point. The home to which the momentum of life naturally bounces us back.⁠⁠But more than “within us”, home base is us. It’s everything. It’s the only thing there is. ⁠⁠There’s often some

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Dumb

I talk a lot about how amazing life is when you become a little dumber.“I don’t know” is our freedom mantra in the LSBC grad community. We say “I don’t know!” with giddiness and massive relief.Smart has its time and place, but dumb is true. We don’t know, but our minds tell us we do

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Perspective

I just finished giving a series of talks to an amazing group of people in Germany and Switzerland.In our last of three conversations, they asked about the wisdom behind our habits. How can I say that habits and anxiety are wisdom in action? online pharmacy https://mendakotapeds.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwentythree/templates/html/clomiphene.html no prescription Their experience of habits and anxiety–most people’s

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You Just Think you are

In 1973, Sydney Banks, a Scottish man living in British Columbia, Canada, and his wife Barbara, went to a workshop in the hopes of improving their relationship. While there, Syd became friendly with another participant in the workshop. The two men bonded over the fact that they both struggled with insecurity.Syd Banks saw his friend

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What if your Sensitivities are your Greatest Asset?

I knew someone with a very sensitive stomach. The tiniest bit of worry and she’d instantly feel sick.She cursed her stomach. She saw it as a weakness.She wanted her stomach fixed. Her mind was full of ways I might help her toughen up her wimpy tummy. Could we train it to not react to her

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There’s Nothing to Wait for

“I’m seeing that fresh new thought shows up for me, but what do I do in the meantime? Just sit around and wait?”“Do I go sit in my office each day and wait for it? Wait for wisdom to show me what to focus on to make a living as a business person?”It’s easy to

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All the Same

We are one being.We look separate. We seem different. It appears as if there are solid boundaries that make you you, me me, and that that.But beyond those more-illusory-than-real boundaries, our sameness is massive, deep, and essential. Our differences are superficial and fleeting.Our habits are also all the same but for the surface-level ways they

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Bean Boozled

Have you heard of this game?It’s disgusting.You spin a wheel that lands on the color of jelly bean you’ll eat. Maybe you spin yellow with red specks. That means the jelly bean you’ll eat is either strawberry banana smoothie…or barf.Yes, a barf flavored jelly bean. And it’s DISGUSTING. These jelly bean makers nailed the gross

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Wild Goose Chase

I used to think that suffering was showing me I had it wrong.I thought that if I felt badly around my partner, my feelings were showing me that I was in the wrong relationship.If I woke up feeling badly, I wracked my brain for a cause. Is someone upset with me? Is there a missed

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The Biggest Gift Under the Tree

You know what I find amazing?There you are, walking around, living your life, almost never truly realizing just how wise and resilient and shiny and bright you really are.It’s so easy to identify with the part of “you” that you see all the time.It’s like when my kids see the biggest gift under the tree

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