Awareness is being conscious of what is going on around you and within you. You are primarily aware of the present moment. Whenever you feel lost or out of balance, just focus on this moment. Breathe, notice where you are and what is going on. Observe the moment and be part of it.
Key Concepts: actualization, affectation, blind spot, common sense, ignorance, modesty, narcissism, openness, pride, vanity
Awareness Archetypes: The Bluebird, The Eagle, The Know-It-All. The Meerkat, The Mouse, The Narcissist, The Rabbit, The Ribbons, The Trillium, The Valerian, The Vampire, The Werewolf, The Woods
Awareness is being conscious of what is going on around you and within yourself. You know your strengths, and weaknesses. You don’t hide from the truth. Big ideas Growth is nothing more than expanding your awareness. What you seek is right in front of you. You just need to notice it. Trust that you know […]
Awareness universal theme Read More »
Self-Awareness quotes to banish ignorance, discover the patterns of your thoughts and revel in all the possibities of your life. Behold awareness!
Self-Awareness Quotes: journey towards enlightenment Read More »
As my Positive Focus moved into its second week, I felt really good. I thought I had made some good progress last week, and had figured out what was most needed to improve. But I hit some road blocks this week. I should have expected this, because whenever I make a statement of intention to
Positive Focus: challenges staying positive (Week 2) Read More »
On November 1 I started a month long positive focus, where I wanted to really see how much habitual negativity I could banish from my daily routine. The first full week of my formal positive focus went smoother than I thought. Things that came easy In casual situations, like talking with a cashier, I found
Positive Focus: a positive week (Week 1 Review) Read More »
Negativity vs Positivity I have always thought of myself as a happy person. Always consider myself to be an optimist. I believe in the basic good of people, and of myself. But at times I have been confronted with evidence to the contrary: parents growing up, spousal arguments and good friends risking our friendship to
Positive Focus: Positivity as a purpose Read More »
These questions are for meditation in this sense of “to think about, ponder, contemplate.” They are not questions with immediate, easy answers. But they are worth thinking about. Let me know how you use them, and what kind of answers you come up with. You could just sit and think about these things, write them
Creativity Meditation Questions: ponder the process Read More »
Sharp, John M.D. The Emotional Calendar: understanding seasonal influences and milestones to become happier, more fulfilled, and in control of your life. Holt, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-8050-9130-4 Summary: Emotional Calendar The Emotional Calendar was written by a psychiatrist and gives us a deeper look at the cycles of the year and of our lives. He
Emotional Calendar: how the cycle of the year affects you Read More »
Political Apathy by Example When I was growing up, most of the adults around me seemed bitter about politics. They had lived through the Vietnam War, inflation and a great period of social change and upheaval. By the time I was aware of things, many of the adults around me had given up hope of
Why Vote: duty, apathy and my civic evolution Read More »
One of the most thrilling things as a serious reader is to come across a work, fiction or nonfiction, that feels kindred to yourself. It is as if you could have written the book, or at least a flimsy facsimile. James Wood’s The Nearest Thing to Life is such a book for me. He writes
Nearest thing: reading as spiritual practice Read More »
I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking/meditating on how we are all connected. The most basic and obvious is that we are all connected simply by being alive on the same planet. I remind myself of this whenever I start to feel judgmental or start feeling a little superior or inferior to someone else. It
Connections are everywhere: the universal, natural language Read More »
