Going at Your Own Pace
When it feels like everything is speeding up around us, working against the tide and putting pressure on ourselves to force our own pace to match rarely offers the best way forward.
Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life Articles in 2017
Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life published the following articles in 2017.
Tips for Living the Fully Conscious Life
Often, we’re only half-listening or half-awake when we do things. That’s the essence of life on autopilot. But there have been some truly remarkable souls among us who lived with greater than typical awareness.
Not Moving the Place Where it Hurts
Instead of tackling a problem ‘head on’, what if we just avoid it? This sounds counter-intuitive, but I don’t mean pretending the problem doesn’t exist; quite the contrary.
The Inner Abuser
Why do we tolerate comments from ourselves, which we would not tolerate from anyone else? Indeed, why do we sometimes allow whole running commentaries on our way of being to take up every second of the day and a significant amount of our mental and emotional space?
The Sudden Desire to End Therapy: Resistance or Wisdom?
Often when clients suddenly decide they want to end therapy, therapists are encouraged by the ‘therapy culture’ to think of it as some kind of resistance to the process. I wonder, is this necessarily the case?
Dealing With ‘Old’ Feelings, and the ‘Inner Child’ Cringe
When you realise that overwhelming feelings can belong to you but not belong to you now or as the person you are today, it really is possible to soothe them in real time. Often these feelings belong to childhood, and turning to those child-feelings with gentleness is of huge benefit. So why does the term ‘inner child’ make me cringe?
Terrealuma: Finding the Natural State
As a child, playing in the garden, the blissful absence of having to think or to worry seemed to me like my natural state. But now as an adult, all the conditions seem to be against finding something like that natural state.