Category: General
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Self compassion, Mindfulness and Healthy Attachment
Attachment patterns established between parents and children serve those children well through life. It allows them to form healthy adult friendships and intimate relationships. I also allows them to embrace the opportunities that life presents to them. When attachment is healthy, the reaching out movement of the baby toward the mother is confident and unambivalent. Most…
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Self Compassion
Being kind to yourself, seeing your self as having normal human imperfections and being mindfully aware form the basis of self compassion. Self compassion is a much more helpful quality to develop than self esteem. Self esteem development programs have been spectacularly unsuccessful. Moreover high self esteem is not necessarily a positive quality. A person can…
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Love, Courage and Wisdom
LOVE without COURAGE and WISDOM is sentimentality,as with the ordinary church member. COURAGE without LOVE and WISDOM is foolhardiness,as with the ordinary soldier. WISDOM without LOVE and COURAGE is cowardice,as with the ordinary intellectual. Therefore one with LOVE, COURAGE, and WISDOMis one in a million who moves the world,as with JESUS, BUDDHA, and GANDHI.