"In the adult there lurks a child--an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and that calls for increasing care, attention, and education. This is the part of the human personality that wishes to develop and become whole."
Carl Jung
Healing begins when, in spite of all the negative self-talk going on inside a person, that person feels someone caring and loving them for no apparent reason. This unconditional love comes in spite of attempts to search for a motive.
If you can help someone get in touch with the creativity inside them, you have helped a person discover the beautiful self he/she is inside. Our joy lives in our creativity which is the joyful, playful child inside. The self-esteem school of helping people requires living in the head. Getting in touch with creativity requires living in the heart.
When You Find the Buddha in the Middle of the Road--Kill Him is the wise title of a good book by Sidney Kopp. No one knows what is better for anyone but that person. We each have our own answers. Even those trained in counseling techniques can only see what is revealed. Tendencies may be seen and certainly personality indicators will be there. But the work of change is a person's individual choice.
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Creative Change Choices
The Secret
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The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World
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Becoming an Intuitive Healer: A Professional Development Course for Health Practitioners
Amazon Price: $44.07 (as of 11/23/2009)
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series)
Amazon Price: $10.76 (as of 11/23/2009)
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
Amazon Price: $11.21 (as of 11/23/2009)
Tips for Making Good Change Decisions
a) Learn to "gentle" yourself during these periods.
b) Gauge your reactions to future events by asking yourself how you feel about this and learn to listen to your feelings. Feelings aren't right or wrong, good or bad, but are only appropriate or inappropriate. So let your feelings be.
c) Many times we use our energy to try to change or stop what change is coming. Learn to "read" the change that is coming and make early decisions about which part of the change you can accept.
d) Bless what there is for being and let go of the rest.
e) The "blame and shame" game is a total waste of energy. The way to evaluate this is to ask if finding the "culprit" solves the problem. Generally, the answer is no-the rug still needs cleaning, the door is still locked, the work is still undone. Ask yourself is you'd rather be right or be happy.
Letting Go Of Fear
The Language of Letting Go (Hazelden Meditation Series)
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Love Is Letting Go of Fear
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Learning to Fly: Reflections on Fear, Trust, and the Joy of Letting Go
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The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook
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Managing Stress
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Our Comfort Zones
The question for us who are interested in change is can anything outside ourselves give us security? I mean, can you use something other than yourself and the power of a God of your understanding to overcome fear? My pattern of change always starts with denial-I'm Ok just the way I am. I usually am quick to find some handy scapegoats to why I don't need to change.
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But the need for change is a restless and slow tormentor." It just nags and gnaws at me. Then when I turn my attention to the change opportunities available to me, fear takes charge. I can't do so and so because I've never done it before. These thoughts lead to the feelings of running from change. I am convinced that many people on a constant treadmill of activity think that he/she can outrun themselves. I'm glad that I know wherever I go; there I am (from Jon Kabat-Zinn). In other words, geographical changes rarely work if I'm trying to move away from myself.
David St. Lawrence suggests that the best way to expand our comfort zones is to move into areas where we are uncomfortable. The main accomplishments come from being areas which cause us the fear. So I know when I get into the fear that the answer isn't far behind. Challenging myself this way has taken thirty years to be comfortable most of the time wherever I am. It does not happen overnight. But the ease comes from accepting the negative feelings and knowing that feelings can't really hurt me if I accept them.I now allow my confusion to lead me to a resolution. I believe the trick is relaxing into the turmoil.
Courage To Be
Living the 7 Habits: The Courage to Change
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The Courage to Be
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On Becoming Fearless.... in Love, Work, and Life
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The Courage to Create
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Simple Solutions: Harness the Power of Passion and Simplicity to Get Results
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Lenses About Change
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Being in Our Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihaly states that flow has the following components:
1. Usually occurs when we confront tasks we have a chance of completing
2. We must be able to concentrate on what we are doing.
3. Concentraton is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback..
4. One acts with a deep but effortless involvement that removes awareness of the worries and frustrations of everyday life.
5. Enjoyable experiences allow people to exercise a sense of control over their actions.
6. Concern for the self disappears, yet paradoxically the sense of self emerges stronger after the flow experience is over.
7. The sense of the duration of time is altered; hours pass by in minutes.
Athletes call this phenomenon being in the "zone".
Amazon Books About Personal Change
Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
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The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
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Leading Change
Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 11/23/2009)
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
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Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
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Change Points to Ponder
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Career Changes and Retirement
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At Métier Coaching, I help my clients get started on the pathway to real and lasting change. You can achieve your goals, and do the things you really want to do! As your coach I will work with you as a partner for success to identify the goals...
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Generating Results in Your Life!
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Generating Results From Change Before anyone can become a winner, they must implant into their subconscious mind positive images of themselves. The root cause of your actions may be traced to your subconscious. “Things don't change. We chan...
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Life Change
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Life Changing Books
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Throughout life you read a few books that change your thinking on different subjects, such as investing, productivity, business, etc. This lens contains my list of life changing books.
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