Healthy Thinking

Highly sensitive people are different and often suffer from difficulties with self image and self worth. Heathy thinking can make self acceptance possible.

There are many facets of healthy thinking. They include awareness, perspective, knowledge, healthy intuitive processing, and general health to support effective mental functioning.

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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The Dignity Advantage: 6 Ways Dignity Improves Your Life

by 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 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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Happiness Is A Skill

by Maria 03.12.2012 Healthy Thinking

Happiness is a skill and it seems that animals know better than humans what it is. Strange, isn’t it? I think we may have the location of happiness in the wrong place. I think we have located it in our heads and that is why most people are not happy. Happiness depends on the way [...]

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Inner Peace For You And Me: A Review Of “Shortcuts To Inner Peace”

by 03.05.2012 Free Spirits

  Do you think inner peace is for people with easier lives, people who are not sensitive like you? You can’t afford a retreat? Don’t have time to sit for hours in meditation? Well, I have good news.  Here is a book that makes inner peace accessible for everyone. I have read the book, Shortcuts To [...]

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Can You Identify These 5 Different Types of Loyalty in Your Life Or Our World?

by Maria 02.27.2012 Constructive Self

Loyalty is one of those complicated subjects that can touch a nerve. It is like a two edged sword; it can help us and make life worthwhile and also hurt us.   Loyalty is an important subject that is worth thinking about because issues of loyalty are part of our basic social fabric and always [...]

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Is Humility A Taboo?

by 02.22.2012 Creativity

Is humility a dirty word?  It seems we avoid it, and I think it is important to ask why. My hunch is that humility and humiliation are closely connected in the minds of many people although they are very different. Humility is gentle; humiliation is aggressive. Humility is often considered a social position of one [...]

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The End Of Economic Man

by Maria 02.17.2012 Constructive Self

Many people think that with the Enlightenment we invented freedom. That is a myth. What we really invented was what I call “economic man” or the identity suited to the Industrial Age. Who is economic man?  Economic man is the human being empowered to negotiate and manipulate, to bend the living systems of the world, [...]

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