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#OccupyXmas — Buy Nothing Day
More thoughts on being grateful
The theme continues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6BVvGQS-wc As Brother David Steindl-Rast says, whether one is religious or secular, it’s hard to argue against gratefulness. How much gratefulness we feel has little to do with whether life seems abundant or filled with hardship. On the contrary, it hinges on the degree to which we are prey to the delusion that we... Continue Reading →
Give thanks everyday (a thanksgiving day post)
Thanksgiving was always my favorite holiday. Actually the only holiday I cared about at all. Certainly not because of history. The whole first thanksgiving story is rife with trauma, abuse and murder. I liked thanksgiving just because of what giving thanks means.
Occupy Wall St – The Revolution Is Love
Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says ‘more for you is less for me.’ But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.
Search for meaning
On Man's Search for Meaning
For Some, Psychiatric Trouble May Start in Thyroid
Thyroid can be tricky to treat and the most common medicine used, Synthroid, is often problematic for a fair share of people who need to supplement thyroid. Some people do far better with compounded natural thyroid hormones. I don't actually know enough about this, but if you suspect your thyroid is giving you problems it's worth finding a doctor who thinks outside the proverbial conventional medicine box.
The death of mental illness
Let me be clear: people sometimes behave in ways that look incomprehensible or even insane. Suicidal behavior, profoundly delusional speech, and irresistible compulsions represent severe behavioral problems for individuals and society. No doubt they stem from cognitive activity and emotional tones that differ from average day-to-day awareness. These sorts of disordered conduct do indeed derive from ‘mental’ processes, but do they qualify as ‘illnesses?’
Mini-update: info that gave me a wee boost
For whatever it's worth, my doctor's prognosis is that I will achieve complete recovery within two years.
A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
Questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure?
Drug Withdrawal and Emotional Recovery
Updated: Drug Withdrawal and Emotional Recovery ~~ This is the best concise piece (quite long for a blog) anywhere on how to deal with the emotional fall-out that coming off years of numbing our feelings brings into our lives. It's by John Breeding I've published this piece several times now. It's a timeless piece with critical insights that I think many are looking for.
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