Self-help books tout the need to be proactive. We should know what we want. Stay focused so we don’t drift. Choose, lest we end up with a life we don’t like. That makes a ton of sense when you’re turned around about how life works. (And by the way, we’re all turned around about how
This is my new favorite metaphor for what’s going on within us.There’s a hare. It is quick and sharp but easily distracted. It darts around, seemingly with purpose…and then it stops unexpectedly, forgets where it is, or changes course.If you compare the hare to our inner experience, it’s reminiscent of something like a knee-jerk reaction,
Let’s look at something that’s so absurdly simple it can be hard to see. There’s really just one thing in life. One thing that’s real.People call that one “thing” a lot of names. The names are not the thing, but because we use words to communicate—and because the one thing happens to be invisible—attaching words
Miller is fascinated with my ability to drive a car. How do you keep the car in the middle of your lane? Aren’t you scared pulling onto the highway with all those big trucks? How do you know where to go? You almost never get lost! Why does Daddy stop at yellow lights but you
Tony hadn’t been sleeping well.One night of no sleep was manageable. Two nights in a row felt worrisome.By the third and fourth nights of very little sleep, his mind was hyper focused on how he was feeling and what would (or wouldn’t) happen when he crawled into bed that night.Am I tired? Could I sleep
The publisher of The Little Book of Big Change asked me to write something for their blog about the lower brain.I was a little hesitant.Not because an understanding of the brain isn’t super interesting. It is.And seeing how the brain works in a deeper, more insightful way–beyond the mechanics–can be incredibly freeing. It was for
I’m not typically sad. Of course I experience up and down moods like anyone, but depressed isn’t a feeling that visits very often.Except for this past summer.Off and on, here or there. There was a depth to my moods that I can’t remember experiencing in the past. A flat feeling that I recognized in theory, even
There are several books out there who talk about your habit—and the thoughts and feelings that lead you to engage in your habit—as the enemy.They talk about a monster, saboteur, beast, or pig that (metaphorically, of course) lives within you and leads you to into your habit over and over.There is so much value in
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” –Nelson Mandela I remember giving
Life isn’t really black-or-white…but seeing it that way has been one of the most helpful things I’ve ever done.Here’s the either/or I’d like you to consider:We’re either in life, in the moment, immersed and present…that’s one end of the spectrum.Or we’re in our heads, in our personal thought systems and our subjective realities. That’s the
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