I've struggled with my resistance to Self-care over the years. While I grokked that my system was trying to protect me from going near anything that upset me, and so derailed a huge variety of methods of self-enquiry and healing, I've recently begun taking Self-care Very Seriously Indeed, and this has led to a discovery:

I'm addicted to not ( Read more... )

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Unsurprisingly, this video got bombarded with vicious comments on YouTube. Which rather proved his point about the prevalence of sexism and the need for all of us to step up and stop it. 

• Please go out and buy (or demand at your library) a copy of Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City: How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds by Sabrina Chase (aka sabrinamari ). It really doesn't matter if you're much interested in HIV, or anthropology, or the US health care system. If you are a person who can read, you should read it. It's part study, part story ( Read more... )

( Sing-A-Long-a-Self-Help )

One good thing about this Lurgi: I can sit and surf all day without feeling the need to get up and move. And that's good when you come across something fascinating.

I'm mesmerised by the videos on Byron Katies' The Work website.

It's basically like Buddhist or yogic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

She came up with this whole system of thought after ( Read more... )

... and I was, one of the things I'd forgotten during the Long Period Of Not Using Self-Help Tools At My Disposal was the fact that when I'm sick as a dog and use reiki, I get really, really much worse. It clears up faster, but, by gum, is it gruelling at the time.

Tuesday evening, I took advantage of a free coaching session. I talked about my fear ( Read more... )

Stuff pops into my head and I get distracted, and when I just let it go, or say, "Self, that is an important thought that I can pay full attention to after I have finished here", there is Peace.

A few days ago, I saw this short video on guilt vs self-disipline:

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And he's right. I didn't do my meditation because I felt guilty; I did it because not ( Read more... )

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Two great coaches talk about and demonstrate really effective ways to communicate, and provide exercises to practice. They explain the fight-or-flight response in daily life, how to deal with events that you find distressing by understanding that and shifting to a calmer state.

I can never get enough of learning how to improve my communication ( Read more... )

I've realised that my purpose in life - my ministry, if you will - is to preach the Gospel of No Spoon. Remember in The Matrix when suddenly Neo realises that once he knows that the world's just a construct he can learn anything, do anything, that it's all about belief? That's the Gospel.

We're always being told to be "realistic". What that really ( Read more... )