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Fantasies

Feb 09 2017

A Valentine’s Fantasy!

 

Looking forward to Valentine’s day?

Anxious about it?

Scornful or dismissive of the whole concept?

Welcome to planet earth – Fantasyville for short.

From the moment we hear a fairy tale, of walking off into the sunset to live ‘happily ever after’, the virtual (in your head) world of the fantasies is born.

I say that fantasies make the world go around because I believe that this is one of the greatest causes of emotional pain in the human race. [Read more…] about A Valentine’s Fantasy!

Written by Mark Kahn · Categorized: Self Esteem · Tagged: addictions, anti-depressants, bipolar society, blocking out emotions, bucket list, close down your heart, consumer sociaty, deflation, depression, driven, emotional pain, excitement, expectations, Fantasies, feeling empty, getting high, getting low, happily ever after, I am not good enough, kids, living in the future, living in the now, longing, love yourself for no reason, mania, manic, marriage, money, negativity, neutral zone, pain, pleasure, psycotherapy, reality, resentment, searching, shut down emotions, stress, Tibetans, Valentine's Day, wanting machine

Feb 03 2017

“Life is What Happens While You’re Wishing Things Were Different.”

A friend of mine Barbara Kuppers, was facilitating a Byron Katie group a week ago. I’m walking down the passage during the tea break and I see that wonderful saying by John Lennon on the wall which says, “Life is what happens while you’re making other plans.”

I’m sure you’ve heard it and loved it, perhaps as much as I have. What came to mind in the moment I read it was,

“Life is what happens while you’re wishing things were different.” [Read more…] about “Life is What Happens While You’re Wishing Things Were Different.”

Written by Mark Kahn · Categorized: Self Esteem · Tagged: 2 day workshop, Adyashanti’s True Meditation technique, Am I Good Enough?, American society, assertiveness, Aversion to pain, Barbara Kupper, being pushy, Beingness, boredom, Byron Katie, Constriction, Contraction, Control, danger, desperation, Dissociation, divorce, Donald Trump, Dr John Demartini, energetic signature, Energy, Fantasies, Fear, Feeling, Grasping, Happiness, health, human organism, illness, internal power, John Lennon, judgment, lightness of being, loss, love yourself for no reason, Manipulation, meditation, Need for pleasure, Opposites, pleasure, prayer, psychology, Pure Consciousness, religious practice, resistance, self love, self-care, Self-esteem work, Sensation, Siamese twins, spiritual practice, Stillness, stress, Suffering, support, sympathy, The Gateway to Peace, The pleasure-pain model, Upset, We are addicted to pleasure, winning

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