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Who is Driving? Rock Solid Faith | Shaken Face
Reflecting upon experiences recently, I wondered at my steadiness. I didn’t feel it. I felt shaken, maybe even stirred. I just wasn’t sure. So you see? I wasn’t rock solid, and I’d have to confess that I may not yet be rock solid. I certainly don’t feel it. And yet… The other week I was…
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Everybody Hurts | Love is Life’s Emotional Journey
From the Archives. Love and life are funny things that often bewilder us, creating feelings within our body that are not really caused by any physical injury. Take heartbreak for example. Heartbreak is not a pain caused by a physical injury to the heart. The pain we feel is an emotionally generated pain, triggered in…
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Raw Love: The Power, The Pain, The Vulnerability
from the archives February 7th, 2005 Why one should be strong enough to let go… Originally uploaded by winterdoll We are all different. We are all the same. Whereas you have uniqueness that manifests through the expression of your values via your behaviours, attitudes, intelligence, and creativity. At the root you seek love and yet,…
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Love and Hugs Make You Right!
Working and living the coaching profession, and being driven with the thoughts and questions that have fed these writings over the years, it was natural to begin finding emails arriving in my in-box along similar themes. Not always reading them, I’m glad when I do and find a treasure everyone can use and remember. Quick…
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Vulnerable Kindness is Strength or Weakness?
world mosaic: a tribute to flickr portraits Originally uploaded by pardeshi Facebook is filled with Applications that people circulate through invitations. Buy and Sell friends, Flirt till your blue in the Facebook, Triumph over opponents, share iThink opinions, and many others. Many of these Apps involve assessing your ‘friends’ on Facebook. This week, a Weakness…
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Believe! Just Believe!
Who can beat belief? There are moments, ever-so-brief, that express a level of certainty. Not only is the thought clear in the mind, the thought was precipitated with a strong physical sense expressing certainty of what was to come. As the feeling is noticed, the awesome feeling is felt fully, wondered at, and recognized to…
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Emotions Versus Feelings
Deny your feelings, control your emotions, are often suggestions we might have heard from various sources over the years, whether from family, friends, or experts. What robbery! Anyone who has experienced traumatic moments in life understands the emotional impact, and the lasting impact of those emotions. Grief must be experienced, must be expressed, and must…
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Black, not the colour, just the sound
Sometimes there is so much to say that the stories jumble into a colourful paint-splatter that is meaningless, though beautiful with vibrant life. Focus, focus, focus. This has been the theme for a time now, and in tandem I’m tackling many other areas of my life. Don’t you just hate the stop-go-wait-trip-go-stop cycle of making…
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How to be positive
Hi, can you tell me how to be more positive? I am finding my self not to be positive about a lot of things. I sure can’t cast any stones for getting caught in that vice-grip. To change… wow… to change. It can be a journey, or it can be a decision. This is most…
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Mind Emotional Human Potential: Sink or Grow Rich
The Secret, The Power of Intention, Think and Grow Rich, and a myriad of other top-selling spiritually-minded self-help books send off a vibe that life is easy. Well, they don’t say it directly, however, as an audience we hear all the promises for potential and miss a good number of the steps necessary to get…
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