Having spent the majority of my life battling with myself and my painful emotions, I have recently discovered why loving myself is crucial to my personal experiences. I took on the negativity that I had experienced throughout my life and turned it inward. Somewhere I believed that turning it inward equaled responsibility to those that I loved, but the truth is that love does not create pain. As a result, the more I harbored this pain the more miserable I became. I showed a smiling face to the world, and looked like I had it all together. In reality, I was silently struggling with how to release the abuse from my life including my self-inflicted emotional abuse from holding on to the pain. Read More→
Archive for March 2009
by Dr. Arlene Taveroff and Daniel K Foisy…
How many projects have you started and not finished? Do you reach a goal and find the thrill is short lived? And maybe not worth all that effort you put in?
It’s understandable. The pressure to achieve is so much a part of our culture today. The motivation for what we do invariably focuses on the outcome, the achievement, the money, or future happiness – usually something external to ourselves that we really want. Reaching our goal concentrates on perseverance, determination and discipline. Reminding ourselves of the goal and why we want it keeps us going; but too often, the journey is bittersweet.
Sound familiar? Here’s a quote that changed everything for us! Read More→
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Categories : Personal Growth
The seed of Success dwells in every man, but just like every seed it does not grow until it’s cutivated. Success is like the crude oil which does not give its maximum value until it is refined. It is like a plant in a garden. It is not beautiful and shapely until it becomes pruned. So then how do you cultivate, refine and prune yourself success?
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Categories : Spirituality
by Daniel K Foisy
Surrender is often misunderstood as “giving up”. In fact, it is only the giving up of the positionality of the ego. The dictionary defines surrender as “above giving a position, transcending a position, letting things unfold by itself”. It comes from the French word “to give back”.
Surrender enables me to start fresh and new. When I surrender to God, I surrender all outcomes. I surrender control. I surrender expectations. Whether I understand the situation or not is unimportant. Whatever is for the greater good is what will come out of it.
When I surrender at great depths, I transcend all conditioning. A new found awareness emerges. I experience the perfection Read More→
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by Trevor Hill…
It is tempting to make the case that the problem is ‘other people’. If it wasn’t for them we would be more organized, more productive and more satisfied. We would get all the important things done and avoid all the silly distractions that surround us.
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