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How to Recover the Plot
On a regular basis, as often as every few days, we are prone to lose the plot of our lives.…
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Questioning Our Conscience
Once we realise we have a conscience and that it speaks to us in a very partial manner, we are in a better position to reflect on the issue of origins.
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Overcoming Manic Moods
In our manic moods, we are in flight from emotional truths that terrify and sadden us. We are running to make sure we do not meet ourselves.
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Learning to Feel What We Really Feel
A so-called ‘well-adjusted mind’ is one that can minimise the distance between what it feels and what it knows it feels: between the emotions that flood it and those that consciousness can register.
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The Usefulness Of Speaking Your Feelings To An Empty Chair
One of the simplest and most useful exercises that psychotherapy has gifted to us is known as the Empty Chair…
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What Goes With What
When it comes to design and clothing, almost without noticing, we tend to operate with a strong background sense of…
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Questions To Ask Ourselves About Someone We Are Thinking Of Committing Ourselves To
Imagine that we are wondering whether someone is right for us or not. Certain feelings pull us towards them; others…
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The Beauty of Komorebi
It is one of the most charming aspects of Japanese culture that it offers up a specific word for what…
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On Those Ruined by Success
For many of us, there is something (or many things) that we seem to really, really want. And then there…
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Why We Have Trouble Getting Back To Sleep
For those of us who have a lot to run away from – and that frightens us – in our…
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We Are All Lonely – Now Can We Be Friends?
However appalling it may feel, loneliness is – in the end – always an illusion; an unfortunate consequence of not…
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On Flying Too Close to the Sun – And Not Flying Close Enough
We are – most of us – likely at some point in childhood to have been told the story of…
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Leisure
The Usefulness Of Speaking Your Feelings To An Empty Chair
One of the simplest and most useful exercises that psychotherapy has gifted to us is known as the Empty Chair…
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Leisure
What Goes With What
When it comes to design and clothing, almost without noticing, we tend to operate with a strong background sense of…
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Relationships
Questions To Ask Ourselves About Someone We Are Thinking Of Committing Ourselves To
Imagine that we are wondering whether someone is right for us or not. Certain feelings pull us towards them; others…
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Leisure
The Beauty of Komorebi
It is one of the most charming aspects of Japanese culture that it offers up a specific word for what…
View
Self-Knowledge
On Those Ruined by Success
For many of us, there is something (or many things) that we seem to really, really want. And then there…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Have Trouble Getting Back To Sleep
For those of us who have a lot to run away from – and that frightens us – in our…
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Self-Knowledge
We Are All Lonely – Now Can We Be Friends?
However appalling it may feel, loneliness is – in the end – always an illusion; an unfortunate consequence of not…
View
Leisure
On Flying Too Close to the Sun – And Not Flying Close Enough
We are – most of us – likely at some point in childhood to have been told the story of…
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