Personal Baggage

by | Jan 15, 2020 | Conditioning, Perception

We’re all born into specific circumstances, with particular family histories, genetic tendencies, talents, temperaments and tolerances. So much of what we take from granted comes from our invisible past. Many world traditions view ancestry as being important...

Be Kind

by | Jan 24, 2019 | Conditioning, Self-Awareness

No matter how tired, judgmental, frustrated or angry you might feel, lashing out in anger makes you feel worse in the long run. There’s always a split second opportunity after something happens when you can become present and choose a conscious response rather...

Anger Is Misguided

by | Jul 28, 2017 | Conditioning

Our conditioning causes us to interpret everything the way we do. The unspoken rules we live by vary so much that we’re all living in different worlds. What bothers one person, rolls easily off another’s back. Even our words aren’t always heard the...

Dreamworld

by | Mar 31, 2017 | Conditioning, Self-Awareness

We live in a dreamworld defined by our programming, most of which is the accidental combination of circumstances and factors that have governed our existence since we were children. Other people, with a different set of accidental factors live in an alternate dream....

We’re Making It Up

by | Jun 30, 2016 | Conditioning

Our experience of life is created by the way we interpret what we see. Our filter determines what we do and don’t perceive as well as how we perceive it. If something is outside the framework of our experience, we might miss it even when it’s right in...

Innocence

by | Mar 17, 2016 | Conditioning

In the big scheme of things, right and wrong are never absolute. What we perceive as wrong is just someone acting to the best of their ability in a particular moment. In the future, they might reconsider their actions if they understood the effects of their decisions...