The Constructive Self

Highly sensitive people’s sensitivity has a purpose. HSP’s are part of the emerging of a new kind of human organized around being constructive.

Old human divisions around sex, race, class, and money are dissolving to be replaced by a constructive human. This new human values cooperative, effective problem solving that seeks the well being of the individual, the group and the planet.

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life!

by 05.18.2012 Brain Function

Thoughts really do create our lives. New research by Fred Travis, Maharishi University of Management in the US, Harald Harung, Oslo University College in Norway, and Yvonne Lagrosen, University West in Sweden on the brains of musicians demonstrates the potentially for highly developed brains that are open, curious, learning, playful and holistic in their thinking. The [...]

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The Wound Of Materialism

by 05.14.2012 Constructive Self

Materialism destroys our environment as this picture shows. It also destroys so much more. It destroys our humanity. Every society defines its purposes and priorities.  There was a time when the material side of life was extremely lacking and improving the human standard of living was a necessary and important goal. So the Western world, [...]

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Naysayers And HSP’s

by 05.07.2012 Constructive Self

Do naysayers drive you up the wall? Highly sensitive people can have difficulty with naysayers. Particularly if they consider themselves wiser than the naysayers – which, frankly, can be quite often. Extroverts can be hard for highly sensitive people to understand because they often seem brash and aggressive but not necessarily insightful. Highly sensitive people [...]

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Why We Demonize Each Other

by 04.18.2012 Constructive Self

Why do we demonize each other? In 2012, we are able to recognize that demonizing others is a problem. However, our ancestors may not have had the same perspective. Here are some of the reasons our forbears demonized: survival. This is the oldest reason. Our ancestors did not have all the mechanisms for survival that we [...]

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Quiet by Susan Cain: Book Review

by 04.13.2012 Constructive Self

If you haven’t read Susan Cain‘s fabulous book, the bestseller Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, you are missing out. Susan’s light approachable style takes a challenging subject and makes it accessible. Susan’s book not only explores introversion but also questions the extrovert ideal that dominates the Western world. Quiet is [...]

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The Dignity Advantage: 6 Ways Dignity Improves Your Life

by Maria 04.02.2012 Constructive Self

Dignity. Every animal has it. We humans try to suppress it, deny it and destroy it. Why? For the sake of order? For the sake of convenience? For the sake of markets and profits? What Is Dignity? It’s a fair question to ask what dignity is because unless you have a clear idea about it, [...]

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How Tolerance Makes Us Smarter

by 03.28.2012 Constructive Self

Here’s a question for you: what is the effect of instant gratification on our intelligence?I was reading recently that many people want what they want but have little interest in how what they want is created.Granted that is a huge generalization, but it made we wonder about the cost to ourselves of our fast, highly [...]

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How Living In The Question Creates Freedom

by Maria 03.22.2012 Constructive Self

  There has to be a better answer. At least that is what I keep telling myself. For the longest time I have asked myself why there is so much misery in the world and what can be done to change it. Much of our misery seems to revolve around getting and having or not [...]

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Is Poverty A Fault?

by 03.20.2012 Constructive Self

Do you ever feel that it is wrong to be poor? Do you sometimes feel that to be poor is a mark of failure? Several days ago I read an article by Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed In America, that challenges the common views in the United States about wealth and poverty. She demonstrates [...]

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Are We Kidding Ourselves About Abundance?

by Maria 03.16.2012 Constructive Self

There has to be a better answer. At least that is what I keep telling myself. For the longest time I have asked myself why there is so much misery in the world and what can be done to change it. We have had many answers in our human history, but often they fall into [...]

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