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"A
lifetime of happiness! No man could bear it.
It would be hell on earth."
George
Bernard Shaw
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Who are you?
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What do you expect of
life?
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What kind of relationships
do you have with yourself and with others?
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What do you long for?
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Are your actions based
on your soul's needs or your ego's desires?
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Is your life an expression
of who you are?
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Are you making use of
your unique talents?
It is important to identify what
you are growing towards.
Are you willing to commit to getting it?
What is the nature of commitment?
Many people believe that they deserve happiness and
spend their time chasing after it or bemoaning it's
absence.
We are here to learn and learning is often uncomfortable.
My work is geared toward helping people create a lives
that are reflective of their need for challenge and
for support.
The journey is toward consciousness. Therapy's job is
to help you know yourself and give you an opportunity
to grow.
We need relatedness in order to flourish. Current societal
norms in the United States place emphasis on our work
lives and financial success.
We are encouraged to do whatever it takes to acquire
the ability to provide the goods and services for ourselves
and our families that we are led to believe we need
in order to keep up. Little emphasis is placed on balance.
People's bodies, minds and spirits are all elements
of the whole. What we receive must be balanced by what
we give.
What we think is informed by what we feel and what we
sense. We need to learn about who we are and work to
keep ourselves in balance. This means taking care of
our physical bodies, our intellects, and our emotional
lives as well as working to find a balance that allows
us to be both public and private people.
We need to understand how to balance our quest for success
with our responsibility to contribute to the whole.
We need to understand how to really relate to ourselves
and to others. There are ways to make our interactions
more representative of our intentions.
Linked is a short story, "Reading
with My Mother," by Phyllis Theroux and published
in the July 2000 issue of House Beautiful magazine,
It does a good job of reminding us that being related
takes conscious effort and that to understand this can
empower us - even in the face of adversity.
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