Thoughts Create the Experience, Events Don’t
I have come to believe that if I am having a negative experience, it’s because of my thoughts. I don’t always realize this during the experience, but sometimes I do. In that moment, I have a choice: I can continue down the path I’m going, blaming someone else for my...
Unspoken Expectations
In the past, I’ve written about unspoken expectations. My friend, Brooke Castillo, calls this The Manual. Just like your dishwasher comes with a manual all about how to make it work properly, we tend to have unspoken rules about how the people in our lives should...Becoming Conscious and Aware
Last week I gave a presentation titled: Becoming Conscious and Aware. During the presentation I talked about Wordlessness, which is when you drop out of language and enter a state of being. The participants and I did a number of exercises together and I thought the...Developing Awareness
My husband and I got home from camping one day a couple of weeks ago and we were exhausted. We got a little snippy with each other as we were unpacking the car, and then I realized we were just tired. It had poured rain the night before and our tent leaked, so my...Dealing with Difficult People
In the last couple of months, I’ve been talking to a lot of people about dealing with the difficult people in our lives.
The biggest problem, in my opinion, is we continue to think things like: