Look for the Benefit

If you’re inexplicably feeling down, you may be spending too much time listening to the media (fear is their business). Or, maybe you’ve unconsciously developed the habit of looking for what’s wrong. Because your thoughts create your feelings, you...

Your Thoughts Create Your Experience

Notice how many times a day you have a judgment, criticism or an imaginary conversation expressing your anger or resentment toward someone else. How much time do you spend engaged in this kind of negative thinking? If you’re like most people, it’s probably...

Emotions Need to Be Felt

Sometimes we repress intense emotions because we fear facing them. But stuffing feelings or going numb has far more destructive consequences. Distancing ourselves from our honest reactions to what’s happening is like going through life wrapped in a wet blanket....

Pain as Portal

Each of us has a well of accumulated disappointment and hurt inside of us that is waiting to be healed. When part of it rises to the surface of our awareness, it’s an opportunity to heal it. Because it’s uncomfortable, we often repress it, seek distraction...

Don’t Protect Yourself

Every attempt to protect yourself emotionally from fear, sadness, loneliness, anger or any other feeling that you don’t like just keeps you from experiencing life fully. It causes you to close your heart and prevents you from feeling true joy. Distracting...

Please Don’t Feed the Misery

When you experience disappointment, fear or anger, do you immediately want to tell others about it? It’s normal to seek support by sharing negative experiences, but it only results in deepening discontentment. Repeating stories of heartache, misfortune or...