Month: March 2013

Attitudes – a meditation

  The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand? –Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean  I really appreciate this quote  because it reminds me that when I feel like a victim or I feel like I have no choices, that I become my own problem….

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Asking for Help – Episode 15

We talk about asking for help. When we came in, we did not have experience asking for help in a healthy way. We didn’t want to impose on people we barely knew, we still thought we could do it ourselves. How did we come to understand that reaching out was not weakness, that others gained…

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Aloneness– a meditation

  “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~ Rollo May   Before the program, I used to fear solitude. Any moment I had alone was a moment that I tried to fill with other activities. I…

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Letting Go – a meditation

  When you get free  from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous than you thought it was. Alan Watts I am reminded that often I have preconceived notions about people and behavior. Because of this preconceived notion, I decide that I…

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everyone – a meditation

  Everyone you will ever meet knows something that you don’t. – Bill Nye, the Science Guy I used to think that I had to have the answers for every problem in my life. I used to think that I had to fix everything and everybody around me, by myself. I used to think that…

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