Category: Experience
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The Truth About Emotional Intelligence | Some Healing Required
From the archives January 21, 2005 There is so much emphasis on emotional intelligence these days that it appears that people are suppressing their emotions and problems in an effort to “fit in,” to keep their jobs, and using “positive self-talk” to muscle through the rough spots in their lives. Recently, I had a friend…
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Everybody Hurts | Love is Life’s Emotional Journey
From the Archives. Many writers and editors critique the wordiness of my writing. I encourage you to embrace that feature. I’m not just sharing head-knowledge. I am endeavouring to take you to a place that you can feel, know, and understand. Love and life are funny things that often bewilder us, creating feelings within our…
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Scents
My woman wants me to be gentle with her and I try to explain, “I am helpless in her arms, touching her flesh, tasting her scent,” as I once again become a ravenous beast. Copyright © 2007 Lee Down, all rights reserved
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Change Your Mind, Change Your Luck | Positive Thinking Attitude
From the archives July 23, 2005 When I was a young man, even a teenager for that matter, I always had an optimism that was hard for others to overcome. Even in the midst of the all the negative influences from family and peers, this positive optimism was difficult to beat down. I was powerful,…
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Illness of the Body
Nobody likes to be sick. Runny noses, aching muscles, bones, and organs, sneezing, coughing, headaches, shivers, chills, fevers, and other unmentionable symptoms wrack the body, and suck the energy right out of the body. This is exactly where I have found myself the last few days with an overwhelming force. Prior to that I struggled…
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Experience Joy
Open up to Life my heart, fear not your feelings of hurt and pain, they burnish the gild inside a false shell hiding the meat, your life! To be surrendered. “You belong to me ,” she said. Copyright © 2007 Lee Down, all rights reserved
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The Mind is Such a Tool !!
One the old site, I wrote a piece called a Spiritual Guide. It was written in response to a name-blame-game that objectified these little monsters in your life that sabotaged you. These monsters were called Gremlins based upon Taming Your Gremlins book popularly used by Life Coaches and Career Coaches. Still relevant in a metaphorical…
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Conversations
I’ve been involved in conversations about emotions lately. Anger, communication, response versus reaction. I’ve enjoyed the flow and depth the conversations have taken. Having dived deeply into the emotional pool feared by many men, I have come to gain considerable understanding from my own experiences. Many times, I have shared stories with others, both men…
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Strange, Mystical, Crow
Crows – Towards the sun i fly, not as Icarus. Originally uploaded by hashmil All of nature belongs to the cosmic dance of the existence we share. Native americans have a long history of honoring and respecting this fact. Animals and other natural elements offer signs, omens, legends, wisdom, and more to their culture and…