The cause of our emotional and spiritual problems, our pains and fears can be attributed to one thing (and it’s not the baby deer:). Now, before you get too excited waiting for the answer, I don’t have a magic cure that will eliminate all of your problems. But I can help you reduce this thing to a manageable level resulting in a much happier, peaceful life, but of course, you’ll need to do the work. Read more…

Our physical condition and health can certainly affect how we feel spiritually, mentally and emotionally. Some physical conditions are out of our control, so for now, I will discuss the conditions that we can control. We can control how we take care of our bodies. We have control over the types of food we eat and whether or not we exercise and subsequently our weight. Of course body type and weight are also impacted by our genes, which are out of our control. Read more…

Most of our fears can be put into one of two categories. Fear of not getting what we want or fear of losing what we have. Most of our negative reactions to life result from a lack of acceptance. We are afraid and we don’t accept because of our lack of faith in a Higher Power or to put it another way, we don’t trust in the way things are. Did I rub anybody the wrong way yet? Read more…

Other than ourselves, we don’t have control over much else in this life. At times, we probably struggle to control ourselves as well. How many of you can say that you are in full control of your emotions and actions one-hundred percent of the time? Did you ever regret behaving in a certain way or saying something to someone that you wish you didn’t say? Do you ever keep doing the same thing over and over again even though you know that you’ll feel bad afterward? This type of pain or grief is self-induced. Read more…

This site contains many posts on varying topics. There may be more than one post about a particular topic, discussing different aspects of that topic. You may be reading a post about anger and not identify with it. You may think that the views expressed are all wrong or maybe you just can’t get your head around whatever it is that I am talking about. But there may be other posts about anger that you may find incredibly useful. Or you may be enlightened by seventy-five percent of the post and not like the remaining twenty-five percent. The point is you don’t have to make the use of this site an all or nothing matter. Life is not usually black or white, it’s usually gray. Read more…

Although you may want to feel good and be happy, you may still feel bad and be unhappy. You may blame your unhappiness on external circumstances such as loss of a job or loss of a home. These examples are certainly reasons to be unhappy, right? Or maybe it’s snowing and you just don’t like the snow and you will not be happy again until it stops snowing and spring arrives. Does any of this sound familiar? Read more…