Category: Happiness and other emotion

There are No Problems in Reality

The fact that all is well in the outside world—that there are conditions and circumstances but not problems, per se, out there—is something I’m continually discussing with people. It’s quite simple, actually. And when people are already in a nice feeling, they see it right away.buy viagra capsules online https://www.mabvi.org/wp-content/themes/mabvi/images/new/viagra-capsules.html no prescription There’s something that

The Truth about Thinking About Yourself

“The day you cease to travel, you will have arrived”—Japanese saying I heard somewhere The more you think about yourself, the less content you tend to be. You intuitively know this to be true, don’t you? It works in reverse as well: the more content you are, the less you tend to think about yourself.Just look

Acceptance is not the Consolation Prize

I’ve never met anyone who wouldn’t want something about themselves to be a bit different. Whether it’s being a few inches taller, or being a little more focused or driven or relaxed, we can all point to something we’d change if we could. It’s only human.It’s not a problem that we can all point to

Why It Might Look Like People Don’t Change

It can look like people don’t change. Or at the very least, like they don’t change easily. That’s not true though.We are capable of gigantic jumps in understanding; enormous leaps in consciousness that leave us feeling as if we’re living a completely different life even when nothing externally has changed.Of course, these leaps don’t happen

Why I Don’t Feel Proud for Ending my Habit?

I am unbelievably grateful that I am no longer caught up in my former binge eating habit. But when someone asked me last week if I was proud of myself for leaving it behind, the question caught me off guard. I don’t feel proud at all. Pride isn’t the right word.Pride puts me in the picture

Clearing the Internal Slate: Feelings Aren’t Permanent

One of my favorite experiments to suggest is for people to watch their internal slate clear. So Mary notices herself nervous about her job interview. In the thick of her nerves, they are all she can feel. Then, she notices at some point mid-interview…or maybe it’s after the interview…that she feels different. Calmer. A bit later

The Mental Calming Effect of Commitment

Meet Dave. When Dave was dating his girlfriend Debbie, he had a lot of complaints about her.Dave said Debbie was negative. She never saw possibilities, only problems. She expected too much of him.Dave said Debbie was hard to live with at times. And yet, something kept Dave hanging on.In time, Dave asked Debbie to marry him.

How to Share the Truth (with Wisdom by Willow)

I get a lot of questions about how we can teach the things I write about to young children. Raising children who see the truth about their nature, who are comfortable with emotion, and who know how their experience is created, is a big deal. It’s no exaggeration to say that this understanding could

When we Fear Emotion

A woman was recently telling me how emotions were not okay in the family in which she grew up. Feeling bad—and being honest about it—w as not an option.So she learned to pretend that she was feeling okay when she was not. She began to carry on as if everything were wonderful when she felt

Your Problems are not About You

I have a friend whose husband just walked out on her and her three young children. She is barely getting by financially, she has some mounting health issues due to the stress she’s experiencing, and she is caring for an elderly parent. Her circumstances are tough in a way that I can’t pretend to understand.We