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The triune brain and why you should keep an eye on your mate
Have you ever had the situation where your spouse or partner tells you that a former ex has resurfaced and wants to be “just friends?” Your partner tells you there is nothing to worry about because...
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Do Dreams Have Meaning?
One day a client reported she’d had a powerful dream. Powerful in the sense that the imagery was very vivid and that it had stimulated strong feelings of sadness and yearning.Her dream:I was walking in...
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Paranoia and Power
The talk of healthcare reform has really become a rallying point for paranoia. I blogged about projection, which is the psychological act of seeing out in the world or in other people something that is...
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Peter Pan and Tinker Bell
Over the weekend I had a conversation with someone who told me about two people. Her ex-husband and her son’s girlfriend.The ex was an only child and came from a wealthy family. He, being used to...
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How to have an unhappy relationship in 15 not all inclusive easy steps
1. Ignore or tune out your partner when he/she says something you disagree with.2. Instead of ignoring your partner as in #1, you “attack” with your reasons as to why he/she is wrong because your...
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The Shadow erupts again
Another mass shooting dominates the newscape these days and everyone wonders why. Sometimes all we are left are guesses because the shooter will often kill himself as well. But in this case the shooter...
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And so it goes again...
And so we witness the demise, or apparent setback in popularity, of Tiger Woods, iconic golf master with the handsome looks and mastery of the game all mixed in with that squeaky clean persona, the...
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New Year's Resolutions. I'm gonna do it!
Well maybe you will...As the new year gets rolling there are many among us who want to turn a new page in certain areas of our lives. Maybe we finally want to make this diet work. Or we want to stop...
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The Fear Factor
The big flap in the news now is the disclosure of the Republican National Committee's plan to oust the Prez by utilizing the fear factor among the conservative base. Invoking images of the "Evil...
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The Church and its Shadow
Carl Jung argued that within us, metaphorically speaking, there is something called the Shadow. It is that part of us which contains emotions, memories, old emotional scars that we would prefer not to...
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Who's on your side?
In the theoretical underpinnings of Feng Shui, a big deal is made of one's ancestry. Respecting one's elders and ancestors is important in asian cultures. Those who came before us allowed us to be here...
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Feeding the Flames of Desire
In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and in many others as well, there is the notion that the root cause of evil is desire. In Christian terms this would be temptation.I’ve always imaged desire as a...
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Is jealousy a good thing?
Judy notices her boyfriend Dave is annoyed after he saw her talk to another man he did not know. So she asks him with a smile "are you jealous?" After all, if he is, it means she's really important to...
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The Royals
I'm told the most watched event in the world is World Cup soccer every four year--1 billion viewers.Now I'm told the number of viewers of the royal wedding--2 billion.Why?Who are these people? Why does...
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There he goes...
And there he goes, perhaps everyone's favorite punching bag for corrupt politicians, Rod Blagojevich, to the Big House. Maybe. We all know different rules apply to white collar crimes. He's always had...
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The strange case of Mr. Warren Jeffs
He’s the leader of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, who are an offshoot of the mainstream Mormons and also not acknowledged by the official Mormon church. They practice polygamy that includes...
View ArticleHow is your Yi today?
In Chinese medicine a distinction is made between two parts of our mind that we know well. "Yi" (yee) represents our "wisdom mind." It is that part of us that "knows better," our wise guide that keeps...
View ArticleDenial of death
We live in a culture that denies death. We acknowledge it as a fact of life but only theoretically. We don't live as if we emotionally integrate that reality down to the level of our souls.Ours is a...
View ArticleBut it feels right
Someone told me about how stressed she was at work. There was a lot of work to be done and she was worried she would be judged for not completing her work on time though she had no real deadlines."Then...
View ArticleWhen it rains...
"As the monsoon rain pierces through the roof of an ill-thatched house, so lust enters the undisciplined mind."This is a quote from the Dhammapada, a collection of sayings of Buddha that most Buddhists...
View ArticleOne of me
In his book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" Daniel Kahneman argues that our brains have two primary modes of processing experience. Each mode, he calls them System 1 and System 2, comprise various...
View ArticleTwo of me
If you are like me, then sometimes you find yourself having a contradictory experience within yourself. One voice says this, the other says that. Why do I keep doing things I know are not good for me?...
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Let's stay warm
When I first saw this picture of a painting by Paul Kuczynski something about it struck me as poignant. Here is a man who is burning the rungs of a ladder that could set him free. Why would he self...
View ArticleHypocrisy and the King
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. Andre GideThe hypocrises keep piling up you can build a wall so high it could stretch to, hmm, the...
View ArticleGollum and Donald Trump
There’s a line from Michael Wolfs “Fire and Fury” that goes “Bannon described Trump as a simple machine. The On switch was full of flattery, the Off switch full of calumny. The flattery was dripping,...
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