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“You have a companion. One that never, ever leaves you. It sticks with you, staying even closer than your shadow. It is like a leech sucking your blood, and you cannot shake it loose.
“This constant companion is your mental chatter.
“Another name for it is your internal monologue. It begins the moment you open your eyes [...]
Our beliefs can have a profound impact on our health, personal development and how well we live consciously and creatively.
A PsyBlog post summarizes a social psychology experiment* demonstrating how potent and self-limiting beliefs can be.
his project involved a group of students who were told they were taking part in a study about the “psychological and [...]
In this excerpt from the article Eleven Ways to Be Your Own Therapist, from his website, Essays for the Enlightenment Seeker – Healing from Childhood Trauma, Psychotherapist Daniel Mackler speaks about nurturing our ability to know and take care of ourselves by journaling:
“1. KEEP A JOURNAL: Journaling – that is, writing down the truth of [...]
Actor Vera Farmiga chose Pilgrim at Tinker Creek By Annie Dillard as one of the books she most appreciates. She comments about it:
When life goes bonkers, and I start to feel skittery-jittery, I find nature medicinal. I’m happiest when I stumble upon dense, cool patches of moist green moss. So this book—about Dillard’s year observing [...]
Musician Alanis Morissette has sold over 60 million albums worldwide, including Jagged Little Pill.
She is also an actor, with credits for the series Weeds, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Sex and the City, and The Vagina Monologues on Broadway. And she played God in the film Dogma.
In a High Times interview, she talks about using pot [...]
“I believe I can fly; I believe I can touch the sky; I think about it every night and day; Spread my wings and fly away; I believe I can soar…”
Dick (Jim Carrey) from a scene in Fun with Dick and Jane. Feeling exuberantly self-assured after getting a promotion, he sings the R. Kelly song [...]
In his article Changing Beliefs, Douglas Cartwright writes about “a biggie – changing toxic and unhealthy beliefs we may have about ourselves.”
He notes that in the book Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, “Avy Joseph talks about unhealthy beliefs often being constructed with terms such as ‘must, should’ and ‘have to’.
“[Joseph] gives an example of a woman called [...]
“Saying what you want while holding energy against it doesn’t work. That is what most of us are doing with the Universe. We’re giving it conflicting directions.
“It’s like a director saying to me ‘cross stage left but don’t move.’ I’m stuck. I can’t complete both directions because they cancel each other out.”
Dee Wallace in our [...]
In his article Getting Rid of the Fear of Public Speaking Has to be Difficult – Are You Sure?, Morty Lefkoe writes, “After helping hundreds of people with a fear of public speaking totally eradicate that fear, we discovered that there are only a few beliefs that cause the fear.”
Here are some of those beliefs [...]
From article No-Thinking Zone, By Derrick Carpenter, Positive Psychology News Daily
I over-think. A lot. And I bet many of you can relate.
My over-analysis rarely takes me to a higher state of being. In many cases, I get caught in spirals of “What if…?” and “If it wasn’t for…” that spin me around until I’m exhausted [...]
Also see articles by Morty Lefkoe.
A profile by the Institute of Noetic Sciences notes that Lefkoe “made a series of discoveries that allowed him to help people make permanent changes in their emotions and behavior.” He is founder of The Lefkoe Method, available in the programs Undo Public Speaking Fear and ReCreate Your Life.
Eliminate one [...]
In her article How to Tell the Difference Between Fear and Intuition, Judith Orloff, M.D. writes, “True intuitions will never put you down or support destructive attitudes or behavior. Here are some guidelines for distinguishing legitimate fears from irrational ones:
Signs of a Reliable Intuition
* Conveys information neutrally, unemotionally
* Feels right in your gut
* Has a [...]
From article: Awakening the Inner Sense – Some Methods and Meditation Objects, By Floco Tausin.
What we know as our weekday is a tide of miscellaneous information which we receive with our five senses and put together to an integral picture in the brain.
The sense organs are the gates of our body – they connect the [...]
The image is food critic Anton Ego from the movie Ratatouille [video clip].
I was reminded of the stuffy and dour character while reading Laura Berman Fortgang’s The Little Book on Meaning, and her reference below to “high analytical ability.. often black-and-white thinkers.. Quick to decide what is good and what is bad..” I know I [...]
Morty Lefkoe, creator of the Lefkoe Belief Process, notes that by changing or eliminating limiting beliefs, “You not only change your behavior and feelings, you actually change the reality you live in.”
He points out, “Even the environment in which an organization operates is largely a function of its beliefs.
“When I do workshops for CEOs I [...]
In this sample clip from his audiobook Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits Wayne Dyer says “Just because people know what to think, doesn’t mean they know how to think, or how to change what they’ve been thinking for a lifetime.”
“The equipment used in connection with this operation will consist of the following items: 1 unopened newspaper; 1 sterile can opener; 1 large sterile plate; 1 sterile fork; 1 sterile spoon; 2 sterile brushes; 2 bars of soap; sterile paper towels.”
That is part of a long memo from Howard Hughes on how to open a [...]
Video: Terence Mckenna – Nobody is Smarter Than You Are
Summary by video poster Gaia1986: “This is a little self-empowering bit which is about believing in nothing else than yourself. About rejecting all ‘isms’ and going for direct experience.”
One of many books: The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination and Spirit, by Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, [...]
One of the characters in Marge Piercy’s novel He, She and It is Malkah, an older woman who writes chimeras, decoy code used to hide sensitive corporate information on the Net.
Malkah says, “I cannot always distinguish between myth and reality, because myth forms reality and we act out of what we think we are; we [...]
Divergent thinking is one of the defining qualities of creative and high ability people. While it may be a prominent trait of children and many gifted adults, encouraging out of the ordinary ideas can be suppressed as we “grow up” and learn to fit in. But it can also be actively nurtured.
Some examples of what [...]
Morty Lefkoe notes how much power beliefs have to affect our actions, identity and esteem. He describes his therapeutic approach to eliminate the beliefs that cause our behavioral and emotional patterns.
“All meaning is in our minds. All beliefs are merely the meaning we assign to what we observe. Before I explain how this axiom and [...]
Our shadow side is the multitude of personality qualities, instincts, urges and thoughts we may be offended by and actively ignore, deny or try to cover up. But this secret or unexplored inner landscape can be a source of personal growth and creative expression.
It isn’t a matter of freely acting on our urges or fantasies, [...]
What we choose to be, the dreams we invest time and energy in pursuing, the ways we relate to other people and the world, how passionately we develop our talents, how we identify and esteem ourselves – all are impacted by our beliefs.
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into [...]
“Your thoughts are powerful. They are real, they are measurable, they are energy.
“The conscious mind has: – Limited processing capacity. – Short term memory (about 20 seconds) – The ability to manage 1 to 3 events at a time -Impulses that travel at 120 to 140 mph – The ability to process an average of [...]
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“For years I thought we shared a secret… that we would be wonderful in the world. I didn’t exactly know how, but just the possibility… kept me hoping.”
That is from one of many powerful scenes in [...]
Brigid O’Shaughnessy [Mary Astor]: Help me.
Sam Spade [Humphrey Bogart]: You won’t need much of anybody’s help. You’re good. Chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get in your voice when you say things like ‘Be generous, Mr. Spade.’
Brigid O’Shaughnessy: I deserve that. But the lie was in the way I said it, not [...]
