Using Friendly Mind When Your Feel the Worst
Robert Strock and Shelley Pearce discuss how “friendly mind” can steer you in a neutral — and sometimes playful — way to find the thoughts that are most helpful to you.
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Inquiring from the Heart – Part 3
Inquiry can go on intermittently for days in the background of your mind and heart when you are really interested in exploring a specific part of your life. When this happens, you want to be sure that you keep the same positive focus of questioning where it is clear that you are looking to support …
Inquiring from the Heart – Part 2
Inquiry from the heart is essential because, if we make this practice part of our lives, it is one of the key ways to focus our awareness in the direction of our own healing and fulfillment. It can also alert us when we are not heading in a healing direction. When we develop awareness that …
Inquiring from the Heart – Part 1
Although most of us already ask ourselves questions about how we might make positive changes in our lives, those questions are often asked in ways that do not support us and do not bring healing. They can be expressed with a negative edge like, “Why aren’t you making more progress?” or “Why are you stuck …
Tuning into Tone of Voice
When we look closely, we’ll discover that the tone of voice of ourselves and those that are closest to us is the source of our greatest suffering and our greatest intimacy.
Communicating More Effectively With Your Teen
Psychotherapist Robert Strock discusses the importance of awareness of tone of voice when dealing with your teenager, connecting with their heart, and setting firm boundaries.
Increasing the minimum wage by $1 could reduce US suicide rates, study finds
This is a good article as far as it goes. Of course, how we handle our distribution of money and the work opportunities throughout our population is going to have an immeasurable impact on quality of life and homicides as well. Besides the denial of death, the denial of income inequality is a disease throughout …
Opinion: It’s Time To End The Colonial Mindset In Global Health
This is a great article with a long-term world perspective. How long will it take for America to see that it has built its brilliance on the backs of the American Indians and slaves? Unfortunately, this is how it’s been throughout history. This beginning insight is, for some, the inspiration to commit to a life …
Humility
This guided meditation crystallizes a healing path when we are feeling righteous, victimized, impatient and aggressive. Where are you most righteous, moralistic, antagonistic, or feeling like a victim in your life?
How to Take Care of Yourself During a Serious Illness
Psychotherapist Robert Strock discusses how to adapt to the new normal of a longterm illness, be the quarterback of your team of caretakers, and focus on the possible rather than dwell on the impossible.