Little Disturbances

When you spend time with friends, family or colleagues, do you focus on what you like about them? Or does that one annoying little thing they do dominate your awareness? Do you ever wonder why your attention lingers for so long on the negative stuff? Maybe it’s...

Chronic Pain

Chronic pain can often be traced to a physical trauma. But when it comes and goes or arises out of the blue, it could be the result of unexplored emotions percolating up from your unconscious mind. When you repress or ignore anger and frustration, your body still...

Dramas

If you often feel victimized by challenging situations or difficult people, take a moment to pause and ask yourself if you might be attracting them in order to distract yourself from unexplored feelings you have. It doesn’t matter whose problems they are, drama...

Hurt Feelings?

When someone’s behavior hurts our feelings, we can’t know for sure if they intended to hurt us, unless they tell us so. And even if they say they didn’t, they could be spinning the truth to save face. Whether or not they intended to hurt us is far...

Don’t Skip the Step

Everyone occasionally deals with hardships. Some are minor inconveniences, while others might be extremely painful. Trying to avoid feeling the pain could cause us to miss the richness and purpose of the experience. When we earnestly feel our feelings first, then drop...

Fact Or Fiction?

Because feelings are created by our perceptions and interpretations, we can experience something as fact that is in fact, fiction. When we begin to experience life as the witness, we learn how to separate outer circumstances from inner peace. No situation obliges us...