Releasing is a pretty straight forward concept: simply "let go" of any thoughts/feelings/problems you might have — just like dropping a handful of dirt to the floor. There are many releasing techniques available. They're relatively similar though, so I'll discuss the two key ones I've found so far. If you're interested, both of these stem from discoveries …
I'm finding that when I get the same thing occurring in many areas of my life within a very short period of time it's time for me to learn a very specific lesson. Recently I found myself feeling rejected, in various ways, in 6 or 7 different situations over the span of a week or so. …
I was watching an episode of United States of Tara the other day when I had something of a realisation. In case you don't know the show, here's the back story. Tara is a woman with dissociative identity disorder (aka multiple personalities). For the sake of TV, they are 5 (or 6) very distinct & …
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 …
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 …
Confidence is a funny thing. It comes in two flavours. How confident other people believe you are, & how confident you feel internally. The two are related, but not necessarily linked. E.g., it's quite common that other people see us as more confident than we may actually feel. So how do you go about becoming more …
Why do we feel bad? It's a good question. An easy answer would be "because bad stuff happens to us", but what for one person would be a disaster, someone else might barely notice. So what's actually going on here? In a nutshell? We beat ourselves up. That little voice in our heads giving us shit. Yep, …
So let's rock this up a notch. We've already discussed that we are not our thoughts or emotions. We've checked out not verbalising negative thoughts. What's the next logical thing to do? Take it back a step, of course. If we're not our thoughts or emotions, well, who controls them? We do! We're the damn boss, & …
How often do you complain? No, I don't mean half hour long soliloquies at the barista because your coffee is cold, I mean just everyday complaints. Anytime you verbally express a negative thought, that's a complaint. Why do we do this? Habit, typically. Sometimes boredom, But deeper than that — oftentimes it's a social thing …
I'm going to start a little geeky, but be patient, I'll keep it super short & it's totally relevant. What's interesting about TCP (heard of TCP/IP? Yeah, it's part of that) is how the initial communication, the 'handshaking' bit goes. Very roughly, it's goes like this: Hello? [SYN] I can hear you! [SYN-ACK] Me too! [ACK] …
