Filter Out Resistance

The amygdala's role is to process stimuli and respond with emotion. Just as I began scraping together the courage to once more suggest to Steven that he and I go into couples counseling, I got pregnant for the third time. It seems that forgiving ourselves for procrastinating helps us move …

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Let Yourself Be

But especially, it calls back home to yourself all of the parts of you that have been scattered - parts you have given away to those who did not appreciate or deserve them. The most common injuries in the shoulder happen when the head does not stay centered in the socket …

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Building An Emotional Elevator

and if ourselves refers to John and me, the sentence is incoherent because it does not end that we couldn View the personal space intruder's insensitivity with compassion. We are hardwired for fight or flight--remember, we're the descendants of the ones who didn't stop to think when the lion was …

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I Can Get Into Better Shape

Red Stuff Red keeps this area heated up--not what metal likes. The most common type of insurance is group coverage through your employer. You don't have to worry that you will miss something important because there will be plenty of people around you to tell you about all the gloom …

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Make Time For Attachment Today

They were there to observe the circumstances under which people would offer to help pick up the dropped things. Obviously, I would be more likely to be able to hear constructive criticism if it was delivered calmly and respectfully. Over the course of centuries, they had devised a chart comprising …

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Appreciating Our World

The more aggressive person pushes all of his buttons, and his refusal to deal with it pushes hers. It's because, again, your mind is constantly consuming and programming itself with whatever you're feeding it. You're possibly familiar with the pre-frontal cortex - the 'thinking part' of the brain. While seating, the …

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Recharge And Nourish Your Body

Regardless of the way that our lifestyle has a couple of employments for the red hot properties of valuable stones, we have neglected to systematize their usage in exuberant mending. People often think of "the kindness part" as a side note or something nice to have; or worse, they mistakenly …

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Quit Focusing On Your Setbacks

Life is like riding a bicycle--in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. I just needed my story heard, my story felt and understood by individuals with minds of their own. ) has ever brought up how my tummy has a bit of loose skin. I stood at the …

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Major Holidays

It wouldn't have occurred to them to ask me first', then you were mind reading. Another clinical hypothesis may be formulated in slightly different terms. It's not the slippery nature of what I'm trying to say, it's the fact that almost nobody ever tries to figure it out. It's about …

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The Winter Of 1986

The trouble was that we grown-ups went immediately into d-mode, trying to figure it out, and, in the case of the Rubik cube, this was not the right mode to be in. Traffic police and teachers are exposed to car fumes and chalk dust every day. But it goes both …

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Energy-Zapping Imbalances

You may begin to see that certain people do not want you to make it because they believe that you will never amount to anything themselves. When we experience the less-charged state of sorrow, we can rationally face the perpetrator to calmly work towards resolving the conflict. Facing why I …

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I Have Gifts

Copy and paste the information into a file and highlight all of the parts of the descriptions that apply to you. After conducting a survey of people's thoughts about romantic love that she administered in the United States and Japan, the anthropologist Helen Fisher (2004) noted some recurring themes. One …

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Maybe It's Good

You need to find some sort of intermediary that allows for this process to happen without you feeling like you cannot control it. When our two-year-old plays with the pink tower of ten wooden stacking blocks, they offer him proprioceptive and visual exploration of comparative quantities. Each of these themes …

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How To Help And Live To Tell About It

Empathy on its own (like self-awareness, for example) can sometimes be problematic, as the example mentioned earlier with the empath illustrated. Most responses are normal in that they affect most survivors and are socially acceptable, psychologically effective, and self-limited. We shall endeavor to present some of the experiences out of …

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Better Is Something You Become

Rather than the harshness of self-aggression, ambition, and powering through--the voice that had always led me straight back to the needle--the voice of tenderness suggested that I really could do what I wanted to do, and that the way to do it was one step at a time. Every yes …

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This Is Your Brain On Trauma

Neuroimaging shows that our brains empathize with, relate to, and even mimic characters in a story (or advertisement), as if we actually undergo what the character experiences. The more you know about these ingredients of emotions, the more they'll increase consciousness and a connection to your heart. Wouldn't it be …

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Take Pitstop Naps

Premade gingerbread houses allow you to focus on decorating instead of baking and building If you don't know the answer to this one, ask your friends, family members or colleagues. You may find it weird talking about grieving when someone hasn't died yet, but psychologists say that grieving doesn't require …

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