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The Little Known Secret to Stop TOO Many Thoughts
© LunaDiRimmel
My friend just called. You know, the one with “OCD”?
Well, he’s much better these days but now his mental problems have shifted somewhat. The anxiety and obsessive nature of his thoughts are much less but now he’s just getting “TOO many thoughts!”
An unpleasant way to be
Really, it’s the same solution as in the popular Unwanted Thoughts article. There has to be space between thoughts and an awareness of being a curious and passive observer of your own thoughts…
If you think about the opposite case — a constant stream of thinking and a sense that “these thoughts are part of me,” then you really have a very unpleasant state of affairs… Read more
Enough Joy to Make You Smile
Enough Joy
Kids seem to be so insightful these days.
I was shocked when Sam (age 11) came home with this poem he’d written at school.
He was only given the method for doing it and didn’t get any help with the content.
He didn’t see why I was amazed and said there were lots of better ones!
Here it is… Read more
Sam’s Three Wishes
Max 'n' Sam
Changing your life is partly about being crystal clear about what you want.
I was walking with my 11 year old son Sam and our dog, Max just the other day.
“If you could have three wishes, what would they be?” I said to Sam…
Of course, at first he said he’d wish for more wishes!
And then I, of course, explained that you can’t wish for more wishes :-)
Well, it turned out that his first two wishes were the same as mine! Surprisingly, it took him no time at all to come up with the three… Read more
How to Get Your Kids to Do Stuff
Kids! Can’t live with ‘em…
…and can’t live without ‘em eh?
If you’re a parent you know what I mean. Kids are both the greatest joy and the greatest frustration! As a dad myself, one of the day-to-day frustrations was getting my son to do stuff.
Kids don’t have the same responsibilities as adults and their young minds are so much freer to wander about and focus mainly on having as much fun as possible…
I’ve noticed that if I ask my son to do something “one-off,” there’s a much higher chance of a big negative reaction and resistance. Basically, he’s just too into whatever it is at the time to switch to doing my boring thing — usually homework or some other job that needs doing… Read more
What is Chronic Inflammation?
© Martin Kingsley
What is chronic inflammation? Everyone seems to be talking about it…
Is it just the latest angle, the latest “thing to be fixed?”
Is it just the latest buzz to draw in new punters?
Inflammation is your body’s natural response to infection or injury. But it’s when this normal response carries on for a long time that the problems start.
Auto immune diseases are associated with chronic inflammation, as is any disease ending in “-itis” like arthritis… Read more
