Discover how it contributes to your well-being and how to cultivate more love. Go to the Source: Why Love Is Good for Well-Being
Why Love Is Good for Well-Being
5 Reasons Why Insecure (or anxious attachment style) People Are The Best People To Date
Just because someone is insecure doesn’t mean they can’t give you all the love you need. Source: 5 Reasons Why Insecure People Are The Best People To Date
10 Tips to Combat Loneliness
If you feel lonely, you’re not alone. Source: 10 Tips to Combat Loneliness
What We Resist Persists
Richard Rohr writes: “When I entered the Franciscan novitiate in 1961, part of our training was learning to avoid, resist, and oppose all distractions. It was such poor teaching, but it was the only way they thought back then. It was all about willpower: celibacy through willpower, poverty through willpower, community through willpower. But what we need isn’t willpower; we need the power to surrender the will and to trust what is. That’s heroic! It was a fruitless and futile effort because if we start with negative energy, a “don’t,” we won’t get very far (see Romans 7:7–11). That was the extent of the teaching, and it’s really no teaching at all—it’s just “Don’t! Don’t do anything!” When we hear that, the ego immediately pushes back. Somedays we have strong willpower and we succeed, but most days we barely succeed.” Go to the Source: What We Resist Persists
Not a straight line
A friend once said that god draws straight with crooked lines. Perhaps there’s a connection to this thought there…
The way to the goal seems chaotic and interminable at first and only gradually do the signs increase that it is leading anywhere. The way is not straight but appears to go around in circles. More accurate knowledge has proved it to go in spirals: the dream-motifs alway return after certain intervals to definite forms, whose characteristic it is to define a center. And as a matter of fact the whole process revolves about a central point or some arrangement round a centre.
Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Finding the Calm Inside: How to Cultivate Self-Awareness to Create Inner Peace
Sarah Chauncey writes “In 2010, I decided I would try to rewire my wildly anxious brain for inner peace. Here are some of the key lessons I learned.” Source: Finding the Calm Inside: How to Cultivate Self-Awareness to Create Inner Peace – Tiny Buddha
And I did rise…
How can I not reblog this? Hesse’s Siddhartha literally changed the trajectory of my life. My master’s thesis was on the connection between Hesse’s Siddhartha and Hegel’s Dialectic. Had I continued on with my doctoral degree my goal would have been to become a world famous Hermann Hesse scholar. Search this brightshinyobjects.net for the words Hesse and/or Siddhartha and/or dialectic and you’ll see that my passion for this topic still smolders beneath the surface. If you haven’t read Siddhartha you owe it to yourself. It’s a book I have read every year for the past 45 years…
(He) handed me a copy of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha. “In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up.” Reading that sentence for the first time in the small bedroom I shared with Charlie, it was as if I were reading about myself: In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the highway near the droning automobiles, in the shade of the pine trees, in the shade of the dead-end street is where Tom Lowe Jr. grew up. Siddhartha and his search for who he was meant to be, it was me on that river, it was me on those banks, and it was me who began to see books as doorways to worlds that could only help me rise in this…
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Why Vacations Are So Good for the Brain
The power of a “brain-cation” in unleashing creativity. Source: Why Vacations Are So Good for the Brain
11 Things to Do When You Feel Lonely
Many of us are feeling a bit lonelier these days. These tips may help—some involving other people, and some you can follow all by yourself. Source: Greater Good
3 ways to create community and counter loneliness
“Loneliness is complicated. You can feel lonely when you lack friends and miss companionship, or when you’re surrounded by people — even friends and family.
Either way, loneliness can have devastating health effects. It boosts risk for coronary artery disease, stroke, depression, high blood pressure, declining thinking skills, inability to perform daily living tasks, and even an early death. The remedy? Below we offer three ways to ease loneliness and add happiness by helping you expand your social network.” Go to the Source: 3 ways to create community and counter loneliness – Harvard Health
4 Mistakes to Avoid when You’re Lonely
Misconceptions can stop us from getting close to others. But we can take steps to counter these beliefs. Source: Advice | 4 mistakes to avoid when you’re lonely
Surrendering to the Present Moment
Father Richard Rohr says “If we watch our minds, we will see that we live most of our life in the past or in the future. The present always seems boring and not enough. To get ourselves engaged, we will often “create a problem” to resolve, and then another, and another. The only way many of us know how to motivate ourselves is to create problems or to need to “fix” something, someone else, or ourselves.” Source: Surrendering to the Present Moment
PS I find repeating the phrase I learned from Tara Brach and Dorothy Hunt to be very powerful for staying in this present moment: “Peace is this moment without judgement“.
The legacy of the one and only Tony Bennett
You haven’t accomplished much until Mo Rocca does your Obit on CBS Sunday Morning…
Why Doesn’t My Spouse Listen?
When stressed, people are physically incapable of hearing each other. Source: Why Doesn’t My Spouse Listen?
The Brilliant Psychological Rawness of The Bear
This streaming show draws emotional truth out of food and family pain. Source: The Brilliant Psychological Rawness of The Bear
Draw Me Like One of Your French Girls
I asked my kitty Sadie to do her best Kate Winslet in Titanic and this is what I got…
3 Golden Rules For Finding Love Without Compromising Who You Are
There are men who love your strength and resilience. Embrace them — literally and figuratively! Source: 3 Golden Rules For Finding Love Without Compromising Who You Are
9 Men Reveal The Truth About Whether Successful Women Intimidate Them
Are smart, successful women intimidating? We asked men what they think. Source: 9 Men Reveal The Truth About Whether Successful Women Intimidate Them
Volunteering may protect older adults against dementia
“Volunteering… could serve as a simple intervention in all older adults to protect against risk for Alzheimer’s disease,” says Yi Lor. Source: Volunteering may protect older adults against dementia
How to Enjoy Solitude Without Feeling Lonely
Make a plan for your alone time. Source: How to Enjoy Solitude Without Feeling Lonely
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