Perspective

Mental stress is such a challenge for highly sensitive people that it is important to look for ways to reduce mental stress. One of those ways is to develop perspective in order to make social functioning easier.

There are a variety of ways to achieve perspective. Meditation helps the nervous system as well as improves detachment. Learning about differences in people can make finding common ground easier. Learning about patterns of thinking and behavior helps you understand others better. When all else fails, letting of a situation is a good way to protect your nervous system and health.

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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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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Why We Cop Out

by 04.11.2012 Mental Health

Have you ever thought one thing and done another? Have you ever changed your mind when in a group that had different ideas? I know I have and it made me feel like a wimp.Being an HSP means that my positions are not the norm, and I am always seeking ways to bridge the difference. [...]

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How To Eliminate The Inner Critic In 5 Minutes Or Less

by 04.09.2012 Mental Health

Perhaps your inner critic is nicer to you than mine is to me. Perhaps not. The inner critic is one of the main causes of unhappiness in life. It is a master at helping us to feel bad about something. The list is endless: something wrong with us or the world; it never stops, until [...]

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Are We Kidding Ourselves About Abundance?

by 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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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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The End Of Economic Man

by 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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The Secret Of Letting Go

by Maria 02.08.2012 Creativity

What is the secret of letting go? From the time we are born we are introduced to the reality that we cannot survive without others. Our dependency creates our glue with others. We are inevitably committed to our first social group when we are young without the wisdom or awareness of what we are committed to. [...]

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Self Pity And Grieving: 6 Ways To Feel Better

by 01.30.2012 Constructive Self

Self pity and grieving are very different.  Self pity is the stuckness of despair.  It can be a bitter feeling of longing for something you cannot have but need. Often what we want does not seem like too much to ask, which is why self pity can be so painful. Sometimes it feels like the end [...]

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Fixation On The “Bad”

by Maria 12.30.2011 Healthy Thinking
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photo credit: pink_fish13 I suspect that our fixation on the “bad” is a habit left over from our ancient past.”Bad” is a very problematic word.  Mostly because it is used to cover so much territory. It can mean unpleasant, or refer to something that does not work well. When two people are in disagreement we may [...]

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