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An Issue of Interruption
An Issue ofĀ Interruption
There are few issues related to dialogue more annoying, more prone to misinterpretation, than interruptions. Youāre happily sharing the latest and greatest from your mental repertoire, only to have it suddenly sidelined by a variable completely outside your control. Itās like that moment when walking down a city street, minding your own business, when an invisible crack in the concrete trips youā¦
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20: Breaking Away from Enabling
Enabling others is often more about what we're hiding from ourselves
Ā Further exploration of Sharon Martinās article looking at: āHow Codependents Can Stop Enabling and Controlling.ā Focusing on the habits that enable the behavior of others. Learning how enabling is often concerned with the stories we tell ourselves to avoid the uncertainty of deeper questions and keep us from exploring our lives. We are so much more than what we often let ourselves believe.
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Our Emotions Are Never Left Behind
Our Emotions Are Never Left Behind. They are the agents for our attention guiding the selection of our behavior.
Viewing emotions as discrete entities allows us to box them up, set them aside and ignore them. Or at least attempt to do so. Quite often we look at them as obstacles to overcome, giant boulders on the path of life. The way forward usesĀ the supposed power of reason, swinging the sword of logic and embarking on a quest to change our thoughts. Without this framework for personal progress we assumeā¦
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Behavior Is the Projection of Our Stories
Behavior helps us to see the limits we put on ourselves.
This is the final partĀ of a 3-part series looking into the essential characteristics of Relational-ACT, the counseling philosophy behind the services provided by Life Weavings. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), created by Steven Hayes, considers behavior to be an indication of the direction or Value that oneās life is heading towards. As such, behavior is a source for constant appraisal ofā¦
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Freedom Through Dependency
A greater question than dependency is how our connections influence and shape our behavior.
To cling to someone for support and emotional safety is only a slight shift in perception away from becoming āclingy.ā The former inspires sighs of contentment, the latter of exasperation. For those curious as to how the former becomes the latter, there is no concrete answer as the behavior for both is almost identical and further, largely contingent upon the viewpoint of the recipient. All of usā¦
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The Expectation of Memory
Our memories are concerned with our futures as much or more than portraying our pasts.
Memory exists as a source of immeasurable joy and pleasure with loved ones and children and laughter and achievements parading across our conscious lives, even as it holds the repository of one of our greatest fears, that of its loss in dementia, alzheimerās and brain trauma. The very substance of who we define ourselves to be is constructed out of our memories, as they provide a seeminglyā¦
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A Work of Worry and Hope
We are not bound to only one way of expressing our lives
All activity demandsĀ two forms of projectionĀ from us: intention and endowment. Picture someone pushing a large empty barrel up a hill. At each step a mechanism fills the barrel with an increasing amount of water. If the person were to stop, the water would cease flowing but the barrel wouldnāt reach the goal. Consider intention as the desire to reach that goal, with endowment (the water) beingā¦
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Musings of a Connected Life
Active exploration of life means joining with others
Whether sitting down for coffee, watching a form of media or engaging in an online discussion, the shared experience is being felt and thought about in quite different ways. My perspective of the world is both inevitable and a limitation. There are innumerable other possible lenses for viewing my experiences through, an observation born out each and every time I enter into dialogue with anotherā¦
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