Category: Personal Growth
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A question of how to release anger!
Anger: the canary in the coal mine I’ve said earlier why I do anger management. I am not an advocate of anger; rather I am skilled at its management. I also believe that there is little effective teaching in our society as to how to manage anger. Most of the time, we are told we should…
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Why I do anger management
In one sense, this post is a digression on my current theme of visioning a mature society. But it also gets to the heart of the matter of how we are to get to this vision. For me, anger is the canary in the coal mine, and it has movement. First, what a blog offers…
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Towards a mature culture?
I indicated in my last post that, for the present, I will focus on what I believe we need to move towards so as to have an effective world culture of maturity. To repeat what I wrote last time: “I believe that the single greatest need we currently have as a species is to become…
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Are you spiritual? What is spirituality? (Part 2 of 2)
In the first part of this post, I discussed religion; I suggest here that spirituality refers to something broader than religion, but includes religion. If we think of religion as expressed as one dimension (belief systems), spirituality has three dimensions: that of belief systems, value systems (faith development over time), and transformative experience (mystical experience).…
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Are you spiritual? What is spirituality? (Part 1 of 2)
A science that does not incorporate spirituality is dehumanizing; a spirituality that does not include science is delusional. I indicated in my last few posts that I would clarify what I mean by spiritual. When I was a therapist, many of my clients struggled with…
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What is Personal Growth?
I was going to talk about spirituality but I thought it would be useful first to identify personal growth; I imagine you the reader have heard the term personal growth. What does it mean? For that matter, what do the terms therapy and counseling mean? What is their relation to spirituality? What follows are my…
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Question: How do I change . . .? (Part 3 of 3)
Question: “How do I interrupt my pattern of saying “Be careful” to my son all the time? I am aware I’m saying it an awful lot” (Part 3 of 3). My final suggestion augments choice by increasing awareness; it is a suggestion that can be applied to any life pattern where the individual wants to…
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Question: How do I change . . .? (Part 2 of 3)
Question: “How do I interrupt my pattern of saying “Be careful” to my son all the time? I am aware I’m saying it an awful lot” (Part 2 of 3). So, is “Be careful” appropriate? Yes, with limitations. the child needs to know that an action has potential consequences, many of which may be…
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Question: How do I change . . .? (Part 1 of 3)
Question: “How do I interrupt my pattern of saying “Be careful” to my son all the time? I am aware I’m saying it an awful lot.” As usual, I suspect that my answer will be useful to many, so I’m addressing it as part of my general postings. Again, I am splitting my answer over…
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Talking about important issues
A couple of people have asked me to comment on the fact that they do not know how to talk about issues such as their own personal growth and/or the nature of spirituality. When they do, when they talk about how important these issues are to them, and how much they personally have been changed…
Awakening From Your Anger 