Posted in Change & Growth on Apr 9th, 2008
In February I wrote a post about depression where I mentioned how self-limiting thoughts become stuck in the subconscious mind from childhood, thoughts such as “Don’t get close to anyone, or they will die and leave me like my dad and sister.” NLP (Neuro-Linguistics Programming) helped me uncover many of my “stuck” thoughts and deal […]
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The Depression Monster visited me again the last few days. It seems as I get rid of some negative thoughts and patterns of self-limiting talk, more pop up. Like the many headed and mythical Hydra whose heads kept growing back when cut off, my Monster jumps from one attack to another. This time the thoughts […]
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Posted in Change & Growth, Internal wisdom on Feb 29th, 2008
Within each of us lie very controlling subconscious messages such as: “I am not worth other people’s time,” or “Rich people are nasty. I don’t want to be nasty, therefore I shouldn’t have wealth,” or “I get more attention when I am sick, when I’m making mistakes, when I act out,” or “People hurt me […]
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Posted in Change & Growth on Feb 29th, 2008
I have been randomly reading a number of posts since starting my blog a week ago, and it seems many people are journaling the hurts of their inner and outer world on the pages of WordPress.com. I wrote the short poem below today — 2-29-08 — in response to what I have read here at […]
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Posted in Change & Growth, Internal wisdom on Feb 28th, 2008
He escaped from behind the Iron Curtain before the Berlin Wall fell, and he was the oddest karate student I ever had. Zoltan Koos was one of a kind. Clueless in the funniest ways about American pop culture — like how to hold a mock handgun in self defense exercises — he nevertheless taught me […]
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