Monthly Archives: November 2009

The Moments That Define Us

Now, from a title like that, you may be think­ing I'm talk­ing about those life­time events that mark our place in his­tory — ala Bill Gates sell­ing DOS to IBM, or Lawn Chair Larry. No, I'm talk­ing about the moments that define our char­ac­ter, and as a result, ulti­mately us as human beings. It breaks …

November 26, 2009 – 00:04 | By Si | Posted in life, self-improvement | View Comments

Healing the Subconscious

One of the tough­est things about heal­ing is this. Half the time we know some­thing is wrong, but can't put our fin­ger on exactly what the hell is going on. Why? Because our mind/ego has a delight­ful trait of try­ing to pro­tect us by hid­ing things from our con­scious­ness. This is why peo­ple get selec­tive amne­sia …

November 20, 2009 – 02:37 | By Si | Posted in healing | View Comments

Anger is Stupid

Two inter­est­ing things hap­pened to me this week. The first, let's call "Event X", was that some­one made me very, very angry. There's no value in get­ting into the specifics, but I've wracked my brain & been unable to come up with a worse thing that any­one has ever done to me. There prob­a­bly is, I …

November 2, 2009 – 14:02 | By Si | Posted in health, self-improvement | View Comments