Self-Processing

I’m coining a new term,
“Self-Processing: The art and skill of Processing yourself and “resolving” your negative feelings.
Feeling Resolution is a process. a known, understood, step-by-step process that can be replicated, and measured (well, kinda).
Issues = Unresolved feelings and emotions.
- Resolving your own personal “life issues”,
- Cleaning out your emotional “system” – [...]

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’M HAPPY because I sing.

“I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.”
- William James, 1842-1910, American Philosopher and Psychologist
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“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
- Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet and Novelist

Feeling-based Medications

Top 20 Psychiatric Prescriptions for 2005
These are the top 20 psychiatric medications by number of U.S. prescriptions dispensed in 2005.
Medication Used for… U.S. Prescriptions
1. Xanax Anxiety 34,230,000
2. Zoloft Depression, anxiety 26,976,000
3. Lexapro Depression, anxiety 24,788,000
4. [...]

Let go of past pains!

“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding [...]

Emotional Growth

instead of Personal Growth, what if we call it Emotional Growth?
it’s more descriptive and ties back in to our area of focus.
We’re all about Feelings and Emotions.
If you don’t like yours, if you think that Feelings are a bad thing… if you’re in denial about what’s happening inside you… you may want to leave here, [...]

About Emotional Intelligence

Various definitions:
“Emotional intelligence is the ability:
to perceive emotions;
to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought;
to understand emotions and emotional knowledge;
and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth.”
Another says there are four parts:
1. Perceive or sense emotions,
2. Use emotions to assist thought,
3. Understand emotions,
4. Manage emotions.
David [...]

Have a Child’s heart, and an Adult’s mind

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
- Sigmund Freud
ouch… and oh sooo true! that’s why I like to hang around kids better!

I have a gripe… about Happiness.

I read a quote this morning…
“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.”
- Leo C. Rosten
sounds good, right?
well, I say, “BULL“. I don’t buy that.
I can choose to do nothing whatsoever, and still be totally Happy and at peace. [...]

It’s up to us, baby!

As your eyes open, you’ll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you — consciously or unconsciously.”
- Dan Millman
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“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest [...]

The Ultimate Freedom!

“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.”
- Stephen Covey
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“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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“One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.” [...]