Archive for the ‘"Emotional"’ Category

Suffering and Loss

Posted in Emotional · Perspective |  Email This Post | by James Rick

A friend asked recently about the suffering and loss of a dear loved one. Apparently her grandmother suffered for two years with a tube down her throat in a nursing home before passing on. The experience was hard on her and the fact that such a good woman had to suffer so horribly made the [...]

I Wonder

Posted in Emotional |  Email This Post | by James Rick

Those who walk this path
and see what I see
or feel what I feel
To what end, I wonder
This breath so alive
it fades into the next
and so on they go
where do they go, I wonder
My place; like a breath
alive in this moment
ready to fade
but where will I go, I wonder

Thoughts Are Your Most Important Routine

Posted in Emotional · Perspective · Self Improvement |  Email This Post | by James Rick

  When you normally think of a ‘routine’ you might think in terms of actions you perform throughout the day. In an earlier post we talked about the importance of a ‘tight’ routine, that is repetitive activities with a high return on investment. A few activities I mentioned as an example: meditation, writing, reading, exercising, eating healthy.
 
One that [...]

Four Steps to Lucid Happiness

Posted in Emotional · Perspective · Spiritual Guidance |  Email This Post | by James Rick

Life is hard. It is possible to be happy through denying reality for a while. But to be lucidly happy is to be aware of all that is, including the cruelties and evil of life yet still appreciating that which is enjoyable and finding the positive in that which is not.
Lucid happiness is NOT [...]

Should Emotional Goals Take Priority Over Physical Goals?

Posted in Emotional · Self Improvement |  Email This Post | by James Rick

What would happen if you sought the emotions you thought physical objects would give you, instead of the physical objects themselves?
When you seek physical objects first (aside from fulfilling basic survival needs) you sacrifice emotional fulfillment in pursuit of some object you assume will ultimately produce a desired emotional state. Shortcut the process by clearly [...]