Wisdom Sticks on how to deal with anger by changing our relationship with it...
How To Use Your Mind Creatively - Part 2
Usually we are trained to use our mind as reactive tools, constantly reacting to and resisting what we don’t like in the world. We can feel hemmed in by circumstances and what is going on around us, not realising that our thoughts and resistance are what makes us feel so trapped inside something we might not want...
How To Use Your Mind Creatively — Part 1
Our minds are always being creative. They might be stuck in loops, re-creating what they’ve already produced, or creating things that we don’t particularly like, but they are always being creative in some way. This article aims to show you how to use your mind to bring fresh things into the world...
Anxiety Is A Defence Mechanism
Releasing The Need For Approval - Wisdom Sticks
We are often trained in approval.
Get the approval, get the good report card, have people think highly of you, be seen as valuable in the eyes of others.
Why?
Probably because there is safety in being valued or approved of. Perhaps it’s part of our evolutionary minds, where being approved of meant that we were more likely to survive and be supported in communities or tribes...
What Is It About Death?
Wisdom Sticks - How To Calm Your Mind
I Can't Stop Thinking!
Dealing With Criticism
The Gratitude Experiment
The Mirror Of Other People's Opinions
A common discomfort for people is caring too much what others think of them. Other people's opinions start to become a big deal. Here is a possible solution.
Usually how we fear to be judged by others, is simply a mirror of how we have already judged ourselves. If we believe something about ourselves, and if we don’t like this belief, if we resist it or aren’t comfortable with it, then we will fear other minds believing the same thing too...
Escaping The Mind
Stages Of The Emotional Healing Process
Today's blog post is sharing an extra chapter that I have recently added to the book "Undisturbed; A Guide To Emotional Wellness."
After the book's release a while ago, I felt an extra chapter may be helpful to address any issues or questions that arise when someone goes through the emotional healing process.
For those of you who have purchased the book already, you can read the chapter for free. If you don't have the book yet then this chapter may be useful for you, and if you would like to go deeper into the topic or yourself, the book is always available here.
Does It Deserve Your Anger?
How To Stop Suppressing Emotions
How To Get Motivation For Action
Question:
Hi Adam,
I have a small doubt that I need your help with. There is a conflict within me about working on my website. One part inside wants to progress with it. Another part balks at the workload and won't bend the mind to think of it. Since I have been reading your writings and meditating regularly, I have been "spectating this conflict" without taking sides, and without feeling as if these are "my voices" inside "my head"...
Don't Have An Ideal Self...
Don't Be Faithful To Suffering...
“We tend to give great value and importance to our painful emotions, we seem to give great belief and importance to what makes us suffer. We are somehow addicted to it. Don't give such faith to what hurts. See how it feels to no longer contribute to that which internally disturbs. If you relinquish your faith in the painful, a more peaceful quality can emerge...”