Meditation Instructions: Who’s Guiding Whom?
Guided meditations have never been my thing. I’ve generally found them cringey, annoying, or simply superfluous to requirements — the very antithesis of the experience I was having, or wanted to have.
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Guided meditations have never been my thing. I’ve generally found them cringey, annoying, or simply superfluous to requirements — the very antithesis of the experience I was having, or wanted to have.
Healthy interpersonal functioning is largely about getting the balance right on a number of important dimensions. That’s especially true when it comes to issues of emotional dependence versus independence.
In many cultures, the biological family reigns supreme. However, as the television show ‘Friday Night Lights’ points out, there is a lot of power and importance in community and in ‘families by choice’.
Although ‘enabling’ and ‘enablers’ are well-known concepts, I still see plenty of this destructive behavior in my office, even by people who know what they are doing. What’s going on here?
“How do you deal with stress?” This staple of the job interview question bank made me ask myself “where does stress come from, anyway?” The answers I found mostly pointed to dishonesty of one kind or another. Get honest with yourself and your boss and you might kiss much of your stress goodbye.
For all the talk of ‘boundaries’ in therapy, clients often miss the nuances that make boundaries an essential element of healthy living.
Buying into a particular life script — a sequence of life stages that define what we do and when we do it — is easy to do without full consideration. Are we living old, inadequate scripts or are we adapting to new times and circumstances?
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