A recent question was asked about dealing with someone who always expects you to do things for them with nothing in return. I hope my response is useful for anyone else dealing with a similar thing. How to deal with negative family members is easiest when...
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How To Meditate - An Easy Guide To Meditation For Beginners
If you'd like to slow down or speed up this meditation video for the breathing guide, just use the cog-shaped button in the bottom right of the video...
Breathe fully, as if you are breathing from the floor up...
I hope this meditation video for beginners shed some light on how to meditate. Let me know if it was useful in the comments, or if you have any questions, feel free to ask...
How To Deal With Anger - Animated Video
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...
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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...