Are you running from your authentic self? Are you denying or avoiding truth about yourself that you have a sense of but haven’t yet been willing to face and embrace? Running from authentic self and truth is what leaves so many out of balance and suffering in life.
Is size acceptance important? Is it important only to those of size? Why must it also be important to those who are not bigger or heavier or fat but to those who are of average weight or who are thin? Size acceptance in a fat phobic culture is a challenge for those who are fat.
A.J. Mahari, in her lastest, Touchstone To Awareness Audio Podcast, talks about the empowerment of choice in living the questions of your life through Radical Acceptance.
We live in a world that values sameness. We live in a world where wars are waged and violent hate and discrimination flourish as the result of the intolerance that exists in the face of difference. It takes courage to be who you really are. Are you ready to be who you really are? Do you know who you really are? Or are you still lost, to some degree or other in groupthink?
In the process of our own self growth and personal development we are all at varying stages of awakening to our evolutionary enlightenment. Do you seem to be going through the motions in your life? Do you feel like you need and want much more out of life? Do you find yourself wondering – Is this all there is? Do you feel like you are truly awake, aware, and involved in each here-and-now moment of your life as it unfolds or do feel like your life is passing you by?
In the latest (Nov-Dec) issue of Psychology Today Scott Barry Kaufman critically examined the development of ability and the components of success with a focus on the late bloomer. Citing the inspiring example of Joshua Waitzkin, chess champion and an accomplished martial arts world champion in Tai Chi Chaun, Kaufman interviews Waitzkin about his experience and success. – A.J. Mahari
Do you need change? Do you know you need something to change but you are not sure what exactly needs to change. Have you identified and area in your life that this need for change is challenging you in and you aren’t sure how to answer the question as to how to create that change?
Hockey player on a Senior AAA hockey team suffers potentially fatal head injury resulting from a hockey fight. Those who play the game may not worry about these kinds of injuries thinking them to be very rare and highly unlikely. It’s high time that this issue really gets some reasoned consideration. Change is needed in aspects of Canadian hockey-mentality.
Transformation is a process of change in nature or character. The type of transformation that unfolds in the process of personal growth, healing, and recovery. Transformation by its very nature produces pain and/or discomfort.
What is on your mind, that is to say, what you focus on, is what will shape and justify your experience of yourself, of others, and of life. More people are becoming increasingly aware that how and what they think creates their experience. However, for many who are in great emotional pain the connection might not be so apparent.
