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Being More than an Accident of Birth
I am grateful that my daughter was brought into this world, for who she is and who she has become. But I am also grateful for the role she plays in my life, for how she interacts with me as my daughter. I pointed out to her that she could choose to not be my daughter anymore. She can’t change the biological fact of her DNA that leads to me, however ( Read more... ) -
I present the present of your present - the only time is now
We can all make changes to our future by making changes in our present. What is hard is keeping those changes going and not sliding back into the habits of who we have been.
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I present the present of your present - the only time is now
We can all make changes to our future by making changes in our present. What is hard is keeping those changes going and not sliding back into the habits of who we have been.
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Anger, what is it good for?
Posted by Joshua Davidson on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 ( Read more... ) -
If you want to make changes in your life...
Having a few plans for making changes that are not important is just as foolish as all of the other strategies. To be effective requires understanding the problem, coming up with a plan and believing in ones self worth and ability to achieve.
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Securing Insecurity
The first thing to remember, if you do not have clear and present evidence that you are in danger, then you probably do not need to panic right now. It is important to calm down and think rationally. The way that blood tends to flow in the brain, when emotions are heightened, blood flows into the areas of your brain that process emotion and ( Read more... ) -
Power
Power is a deceptive beast. People avoid telling you what your power really is, in case you exercise it. By the same token, if you reach too far, people are very happy to chop your limb off. When you find yourself in a situation where you are expected to responsible for things, but not informed of the rules governing that responsibility, you can ( Read more... ) -
Who am I?
I am finding myself wondering about the space between working out who I am and acting upon that being. We test who we think we are by acting, by doing. Yet we are not defined by what we do, since that is malleable. Yet if we can not act, we are doing nothing, so how do we know who we are ( Read more... ) -
Emotional Numbness
We humans perceive the world in a construct made up from basic information captured by our senses. We perceive this constructed world in various ways - colour, music, temperature, odour… none of which is objectively real. One perception of the world we often overlook is emotion. Like all our perceptions, there is no objective reality to them, but ( Read more... ) -
Free Will and Action
The idea of free will is something close and dear to my heart. With free will, my choices are mine, my actions are mine, and I have ownership over my life. Ironically, I have no real proof of my free will. Too much freedom of how I exercise my will leads to repercussions, stagnation and meaninglessness. Too little freedom leads to freedom from ( Read more... )