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Questioning Our Conscience
Once we realise we have a conscience and that it speaks to us in a very partial manner, we are in a better position to reflect on the issue of origins.
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Overcoming Manic Moods
In our manic moods, we are in flight from emotional truths that terrify and sadden us. We are running to make sure we do not meet ourselves.
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Learning to Feel What We Really Feel
A so-called ‘well-adjusted mind’ is one that can minimise the distance between what it feels and what it knows it feels: between the emotions that flood it and those that consciousness can register.
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For some of us, our lives are guided – and hemmed in – by one overwhelming imperative: we must never…
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Yes, Maybe They Are Just Envious…
There’s a particular flaw to which modest, kind, self-punishing people are especially prone: an inability to believe that other people…
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How to Recover the Plot
On a regular basis, as often as every few days, we are prone to lose the plot of our lives.…
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The Usefulness Of Speaking Your Feelings To An Empty Chair
One of the simplest and most useful exercises that psychotherapy has gifted to us is known as the Empty Chair…
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What Goes With What
When it comes to design and clothing, almost without noticing, we tend to operate with a strong background sense of…
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Questions To Ask About Someone We Are Thinking Of Committing To
Imagine that we are wondering whether someone is right for us or not. Certain feelings pull us towards them; others…
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The Beauty of Komorebi
It is one of the most charming aspects of Japanese culture that it offers up a specific word for what…
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On Those Ruined by Success
For many of us, there is something (or many things) that we seem to really, really want. And then there…
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Why We Have Trouble Getting Back To Sleep
For those of us who have a lot to run away from – and that frightens us – in our…
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Yes, Maybe They Are Just Envious…
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How to Recover the Plot
Leisure
The Usefulness Of Speaking Your Feelings To An Empty Chair
Leisure
What Goes With What
Relationships
Questions To Ask About Someone We Are Thinking Of Committing To
Leisure
The Beauty of Komorebi
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On Those Ruined by Success
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