People who compulsively compare themselves to others are up to psychological mischief, to say nothing of the hurt they inflict on others. Self-defeat is built into this mental and emotional processing. People are making themselves miserable, yet they don’t even begin to realize … [Read more...] about A Toxic Inner Process Afflicts Humanity
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Learning to See Ourselves Objectively
In one of his great poems, Robert Burns generously recognized wee Mousie, “earth-born companion, an’ fellow-mortal!” In another poem, he wrote (as rendered in modern English), “Oh would some Power the gift give us / to see ourselves as others see us!” Yes, that would … [Read more...] about Learning to See Ourselves Objectively
When Food is Used to Feed Inner Conflict
Food is not always used, as we know, for healthy nourishment. Often it serves an ulterior motive, as a way for us to sneak into psychological mischief and indulge our emotional appetite for unresolved inner conflict. When people struggle with overeating and weight gain, … [Read more...] about When Food is Used to Feed Inner Conflict
Discover Sublimation, the Agent of Success
You can change your life for the better by understanding sublimation and making it work for you. As a psychological term, the word sublimation refers to the act of transmuting self-defeating impulses into behaviors that are personally and emotionally rewarding and likely to be … [Read more...] about Discover Sublimation, the Agent of Success
Why We Urgently Need Inner Truth
Is there perhaps one basic insight, one key awareness, that we humans have to learn, and learn quickly, to help us avoid catastrophe from climate change, nuclear weapons, spreading psychosis, and multispecies extinction? I recently purchased a book titled A Gap in Nature: … [Read more...] about Why We Urgently Need Inner Truth