So sensitivity is actually lost when you're reactive, and true sensitivity comes when you are absolutely present in a situation and see, "This is how it is," and you totally face the situation as it is.

Every thought is energy, so there's nothing spooky about that. So when I say that the pain-body can be considered almost an entity in its own right that lives in you, some people find that's a little spooky, but all that I'm trying to say here is that it's an energy form.

Every single thought you have is a statement of your desires to the universe. Every single thought you have generates a physiological change in your body. You are a product of all of the thoughts you have thought, feelings you have felt, and actions you have taken up until now.

By Dianne Albin -- [From the book: The Van Gogh Blues] - As a woman and an artist, and also having reached my 50th year, I find I have many questions about the life I have chosen. Having searched the literature on what it means to be an artist, on what it means to be creative, I am no less puzzled. As with art, there is no all-embracing answer or point of view.

Since where you are in the developmental process has a huge affect on the way you make sense of the world, and to a great degree determines your ability to successfully navigate your life, understanding development can greatly help you take charge of your life.

By Sonia Choquette - "Being aware of, honoring and following the guiding wisdom of our intuition is the most reliable way to create lives that fulfill our deepest dreams and desires."

Understanding how the developmental process works will accelerate your mental, emotional, and spiritual growth. It will expand your awareness of who you are, where you’ve been, and where you’re going (or at least, could be going).

Unless you can be aware of something (which is what cognition is all about) you can’t be moral about it, feel something about it, create art about it, develop faith around it, organize a self around it, or develop in any other way regarding it.

Though you’re probably not aware of them, certain internal thinking processes (what I call your Internal Map of Reality) generate several key aspects of your life: 1) nearly all of your internal feeling experiences, 2) your behaviors, and 3) the people and situations you attract into your life, or become attracted to.

Many us of are addicted to thinking. We believe if we can just figure things out we can control others and the outcome of things. We want to control how people feel about us and treat us by saying just the right thing - so we have to think about it over and over to discover the right thing to say.