Personal Growth – Page 13

Are You Emotionally Unavailable?

emotionally unavailable

Emotional availability is defined as “the ability of a person to reach out and make an emotional connection with another person” (Collins, Emotional Unavailability). If you find yourself not being able to understand the feelings of the people around you, you may be emotionally unavailable. Even more serious is you may not be in touch with your own feelings, at least not the important ones. We are not talking about maintaining a healthy level of confidence and appropriate boundaries. One of the hallmarks of emotional unavailability is keeping people who are supposed to be close in too far away. This can play itself out in many ways. Below are a few questions you can ask yourself to figure out if you may be emotionally unavailable. [Read more…] about Are You Emotionally Unavailable?

Originally posted on March 18, 2014 @ 9:00 am

What Can We Learn From The Zombie Apocalypse?

Inspiration, Mind, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Spirit

There are parts of all of us that need to be developed. We are no greater than the thoughts we think. We get up every day. Go to work. Walk the dogs. Cook the food. Mind the children. But do we move as a result of who we really are or who we want to project ourselves to be. We have to bring our outside lives, the things we do daily, in alignment with our real selves. Like many others I watch The Walking Dead. What fascinates me so much about the show is who we turn into when we lose the things we think make us who we are. [Read more…] about What Can We Learn From The Zombie Apocalypse?

Originally posted on March 11, 2014 @ 9:00 am

Romance with the Unknown

Mind, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Spirit

Why do we spend so much of our precious time trying to know the unknowable? All the energy we use to plan and prepare for what is going to happen next and with whom. To identify all of the ways life will disappoint us and best it. The truth of the matter is our attempt to figure out, name, and categorize our experiences provides a false sense of hope. We purposefully limit ourselves and the scope of our ability around how much risk we can handle.

Originally posted on February 25, 2014 @ 8:29 am

7 Questions to Unplug from The Matrix

Mind, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Spirit

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So, you’ve taken the red pill. There is so much to unpack. How do we begin to unplug from the matrix? It could take a lifetime to undo all of our false beliefs. As I began this process a few years ago, so much of what was inside me started to surface. It is hard to handle at times. But I know that if I do not deal with these things head on, life will continue to be a bad romance with the unknown.

Originally posted on February 18, 2014 @ 8:34 am

What ‘The Matrix’ Is and What We Can Learn From It

Mind, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Spirit

Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life … you don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind…

I am sure readers have noticed by now that I have an affinity for The Matrix movie (part 1). My friends and family will confirm I’ve been going on about the underlying philosophy in the movie since it first came out. There are many ways to go about unpacking it: our political system is a matrix, capitalism, religion, or even a computer generated universe named The Lattice (I did not make that up. Scientists have measured cosmic rays to test it). For me though, even if all of that is true – then what would be the source? Where would it all have come from? [Read more…] about What ‘The Matrix’ Is and What We Can Learn From It

Originally posted on February 12, 2014 @ 7:30 am

13 Quotes to Help You Deal With Expectations

Inspiration, Personal Growth, Spirit

When it comes to expectations, we seem to encounter all sorts of issues.

Sometimes, we think that we should lower our expectations so we don’t get disappointed. Other times, we set them really high because we want to attract positive things in our lives.