Three Routes to Self Discovery. [Personal & Professional Application]
Since the ancient times (at least since Upanishads, Luxor Temple, Temple of Apollo at Delphi) to the present day career advisors, we are urged to know ourselves. Why is it important? Lack of knowledge about who we are, what we are able to do, what we need, what’s our mission, what are our values – can […]
Continue readingThree Things You Can Do Today to Feel Empowered
People who have ability to empower others, have something Julia Cameron called “the believing eyes”. They are able to see us being and doing what we dream of. I bet you can recall time, when you felt all fired up about some project, yet you still doubted if you have what it takes, and there […]
Continue readingHow To Solve Your Inner Conflicts. [this could save you months of dilemma]
Our dilemma can drag themselves from few days to few decades. They drain our energy and make us procrastinate on important decisions. It feels like we just can’t take a full breath. You know when you have it: you want it and you don’t: it might be a great job offer in another state, but […]
Continue reading[Relationships] How to Create a Permanent Bond
Sometimes we are convinced that if we were more lucky or have more chemistry, or chose a different partner in the first place – all our relationship’s problems – wouldn’t exist. And that might be true. Especially if we’ve got into the current problematic relation for all wrong reasons. But even if you are a […]
Continue readingDon’t Lose Hope If You Have Post-Travel Depression
It is summertime and I hope you travel safely to some wonderful places. I wrote recently about post vacation blues and what it might be about. (not that it will happen to you..) Once, after my vacations, I came up with the term “post vacation depression” only to discover that it already exists. I never found […]
Continue readingDo You Crave Simplicity? Start Here.
There comes a point in life when we want to leave everything and fly. (Maybe it happens between spring and summer, maybe when we move from summer to autumn, or maybe it’s completely unrelated to life’s chapters.) This is the time, when you realize you carry too much with you. You look at the past […]
Continue reading7 Steps To Heal From Repressed Anger
This post was written in 2013. Now I have much more tools to help you with emotional discomfort. Still, at that time the process worked for me and others. “We’ll feel unbalanced until we express anger, change the circumstances that caused it, or forgive the person who sparked it” “Emotional wisdom” Mantak Chia & Dena […]
Continue readingHow To Handle Your Anger.
“Anger is meant to be listened to. Anger is a voice, a shout, a plea, a demand. Anger is meant to be respected. Why? Because anger is a map. Anger shows us what our boundaries are. Anger shows us where we want to go” Julia Cameron
Continue readingHow To End The Post Vacation Blues
I hesitated if I should write about this. I didn’t want to make a big deal of something that we may say is a luxury problem. On the other hand – I can’t ignore it. Post vacation blues, post travel depression (PTD) is real. And it hurts. (It is also something that pushed me to […]
Continue readingIs Perfectionism Robbing You Of Connection And Progress?
2013 I am a perfectionist… You would never guess because I am doing lots of things imperfectly. Once this “diagnosis” was confirmed, I was on a mission to free myself from it. I discovered that perfectionism is not about doing things well. If not, what is it about? “Perfectionism is NOT about striving to be […]
Continue readingLife is a Spiral and Here is why it matters. [a quote from “The Age Of Miracles”]
“According to ancient philosophy life is not a cycle but a spiral. Every life lesson that has ever been presented to you will come back again, until you learn it. And the stakes each time will be higher. Whatever you have learned will bear greater fruit. Whatever you failed to learn will bear harsher […]
Continue reading7 Ways to Learn from the “Difficult” People
We all run into d”difficult people”. Sometimes they live in your house. Before you strangle them with your stockings, here is something to consider: If everything has its purpose, there must be a reason for this conflict . I was talking about it with my friend, Sam, some time ago. We compared experiences (before, during […]
Continue readingWhen Someone Calls You Selfish [quote]
“(Campbell) teaches that doing what someone else wants us to do is slave morality, and a path to disease and disintegration of the spirit and body. He advises us to listen when someone is speaking, not to the words, but to what is talking – it is often pride, malice, or ignorance. For example, when […]
Continue readingOur Inner Dialogue can be our Source of Confidence
“There is no value judgement more important to man than the estimate he passes on himself. The more you like yourself the higher your self esteem will be.” – Nathaniel Branden Pema Chodron writes that gentleness with oneself is a root of confidence. She calls it an “unconditional friendliness with yourself”. It’s not difficult to practice it, if […]
Continue readingHow to feel grateful, despite not having what you want.
May 18th, 2013 What happens if you practice gratitude every day? Day after day? Everything changes. I often challenge myself: Whenever I notice I lack something – I change my focus: I think about all the things I have instead. I focus on everything I have as the result of not having the other thing. […]
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