Heading to the gym this afternoon, I noticed I brought my water bottle and phone but forgot my earbuds. Initially annoyed, I considered turning around to get them, but I had to wonder why. It's not like I couldn't workout without them. I just wouldn't be plugged in to my playlist or the gym's TVs. My attention would have to be fixed on what I was doing. No big deal right?
While working with a client recently, I was reminded how easy it is to forget who we are as an individual. Anxiety is very good at hijacking our identity and forcing us to believe that we become something other than ourselves - that we become anxiety itself.
All of us have projected our own thoughts, feelings, motivations and desires onto others, and have been at the other end of projection. Many of us learned to project onto others as we were growing up, when our parents, siblings or caregivers projected their unconscious feelings, thoughts and motivations onto us.
Every woman I know is concerned about osteoporosis. Frightening stories equate it with broken hips, bent spines, wheelchairs, and death--things we all want to avoid. What can we do? Should we take calcium supplements? hormones? Fosamax? Can we rely on our green allies?
The way most people deal with pain, whether its physical sickness, emotional, financial or relationship pain, is to try to override it, avoid it, or make it go away. This causes a state of holding on and tension. Tension causes more pain.
Are you living under the delusion that when you meet your soul mate you will finally be happy - that your misery is because you are not in a relationship or not in the right relationship?
It's that time of year again! The time when millions of people all around the world make a New Year Resolution! But, should you even bother?
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