A Fire Teaches Self-Confidence and Overcomes Insomnia
LIving a life of fear will sooner or later create physical health problems. For this person, there seems to be a direct relationship between her chronic insomnia.
LIving a life of fear will sooner or later create physical health problems. For this person, there seems to be a direct relationship between her chronic insomnia.
Low self-confidence? Worried about your future? Gayle’s seagull can help you soar high above the concerns of your daily life!
Everybody struggles with self-acceptance. It’s hard not to base our self-acceptance on how much others accept us. The problem is, “What do we do when others don’t accept us?”
An “existential” fear arises when we can’t find meaning in life or no assurance that the world is a nurturing, supportive, or good place to be. It can haunt us and destroy our quality of life with endless,unanswerable questions about God, the universe, and life’s purpose. Normal reassurances, reasoning, and simply staying busy doesn’t remove their nagging presence in the background of our thoughts and lives. What to do?
Stressed out? One way of dealing with fear is to take its perspective on your life…
Are you depressed? Your inner compass knows you better than anyone. It can tell you why and how you are depressed and what you need to do to feel better. Are you listening?
When the childish behaviors of immature parents get in the way, a kid could do worse than have such friends. That’s what Elizabeth discovered in the following interview!
Do you ever feel inferior? How would your life be different if your didn’t? There are parts of you that are not inferior and have never felt that way. They do not compare themselves to others. If you learn to become them, you will naturally outgrow your feelings of inferiority, like this lady is doing!
Things annoy you and frustrate you every day. Why? Because they are annoying and frustrating or because you perceive them as annoying and frustrating? What if you changed how you saw those things? Would that mean you were passive or stupid, or would that mean that you are wise enough to not make things that aren’t about you, about you? Here is an opportunity to think about what you can do differently to not let the annoyances of your daily life rob you of your peace of mind.
“You know the solution. You just aren’t self-disciplined enough to follow it. If you worshipped at my altar for maybe fifteen minutes every day, making the appropriate blood sacrifices to the proper deities, they would no longer haunt you. You only worship the gods you want to worship, and the others are calling out for attention. Make tending to my altar part of your daily puja. Make it a spiritual discipline. Make it alchemical: turning the lead of your secular life into the sacred.”