The Shadow

Habit #6: Divine Regard

Willow Dea | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Positive-Relationships, Education, Psychology, Communication Skills, Divine, Communication, The Shadow, Education News
Willow Dea

Divine regard refers also to the living practice that every person we come across is also sacred, just as they are. We are invited to relate to them as part of ourselves -- even our most challenging students!

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Cows on the Beach: Exposing Our Political Shadows and Lessons on Sharing

Carol Smaldino | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Sharing, Spanish Inquisition, The Shadow, Evangelicals, Republicans, God, Positive Psychology, Separation of Church and State, Developmental Psychology, Jungian, Calvinist, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

It is true. There were cows on the beach -- on a beach of a deliciously gorgeous, multicultural, blue-violet-turquoise sea in Corsica, the French isla...

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Are Liberals Nicer? Maybe Not So Much.

Carol Smaldino | Posted 10.06.2011

Read More: Jungian, Tea Party, German Progressives, Psychotherapist, Huffington Post, The Shadow, Liberals, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

If we progressives are to stand for a difference, then we need to learn how to both talk and listen.

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The Roman Spectacle of Charlie Sheen and the Gladiator Within Us

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Gaddafi, The Shadow, Jeff Jarvis, Fraternity Hazing, Twitter, Sadism, Iraq, Afghanistan, Media, Military Hazing, Piers Morgan, Huffington Post, Sorority Hazing, White America, Charlie Sheen Media, Media News
Carol Smaldino

As we watch uprisings in other parts of the world, we don't recognize that it takes popular participation to stop the bullying. Instead, we fix our own addictions by visiting the modern Coliseum of TV or Twitter to see who said what.

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Pacing In The Shadows Of Our Finger-Pointing

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Shadow, Psychopathology, Tucson Shooting, Tucson Massacre, Arianna Huffington, Carl Jung, Humiliation, Jared Loughner, Human Ecology, Arizona Shooting, Media Responsibility, Era of Greater Civility, President Obama, Healthy Living News
Carol Smaldino

To be therapeutic, addressing our differences must include seeking truth, both the subjective and the factual. This can only be done when we see our own mistakes, and recognize how much in common we all have.

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"Fair Game": Seeking Clear Memory and Truth

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Letterman Show, John McCain, Fair Game Movie, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, Pakistan, What-I-Didn't-Find-in-Africa, John F. Kennedy Anthrax, Valerie Plame, Sean Penn, Ambassador Joe Wilson, Dick Cheney, The Shadow, Vietnam War, Iraq War, New York Times, Carl Jung, C.I.A., Politics News
Carol Smaldino

We can no longer afford traditions that tell us to if we dare to question the rule of our nation then we do not love our country, that to honor our parents or children or planet is not to question the accepted procedures.

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The Human Climate: A Real Ecological Crisis

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Adversity, Human Climate, Measuring Up, Courage, Child Development, Bullying, Human-Ecology, The Shadow, Climate Crisis, Developmental Psychology, Diversity, Duality, Healthy Living News
Carol Smaldino

No matter how much we feel we care about our planet, to be confronted with the parts of ourselves that we may have amputated can be more alarming than anything else.

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America's Politically Adolescent Behavior

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adolescent Behavior, Tea Party, Noise Machine, White and Right, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Rage, Tim Wise, Fringe Politics, Black Americans, Don't Tea on Me Blog, The Shadow, Hatred, Political Right, Israel, Realpolitik, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

In my clinical practice, I have actually seen and tried some of the ways that might represent a pathway to transition our society from a culture of hate to one of listening.

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Bullying From the Inside Out

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Phoebe Prince, New York Times, Bullying, Carl Jung, The-Shadow, Earth Day, Phoebe Prince Suicide, Human Ecology, Parenting, Healthy Living News
Carol Smaldino

We need to listen to our own intolerance and prejudice and to the hatred that kills through taunting. We won't learn anything about any of it unless we understand why we hate and from where it comes.

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Crosstraining for Body, Mind And Spirit: Integral Life Practice With Terry Patten

Rob Kall | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Heart, Consciousness, Mind Machines, Exercise, The Shadow, Neurofeedback, Meditation, Biofeedback, Integral Life, Spirituality, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Rob Kall

I always encouraged people to meditate, I always encouraged people to exercise and eat a right diet, I always encouraged people to do all the different elements of a conscious lifestyle.

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Why Americans Can't Learn from History

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Carl Jung, American Culture, Perfectionism, The Shadow, Winning, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

It it is repeated often: What we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat. History is available as a source for comprehending how we can change from making war to exploring peace.

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Negativity: The Path Of The Unattractive

Natasha Dern | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Wisdom, Mind.Body.Soul, Living News, Self Realization, The Shadow, Living, The Inner Life, Self Development, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Natasha Dern

In Jungian Psychology, your negative state of mind is referred to as 'The Shadow.' This aspect of yourself is why much of your life is the way it is. If not recognized it will create and attract harmful situations in life.

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Tiger Woods: Predator Or Prey?

Debbie Ford | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Celebrities Fall From Grace, Self-Sabotage, Celebrity Gossip, Debbie Ford, Cheaters, The Shadow, Tiger Woods, Healthy Living News
Debbie Ford

One by one they are exposing Tiger's hidden shame -- a porn star, a pancake waitress, a VIP hostess, a club promoter. Are they coming forward to help Tiger's family heal, or are they wounded -- seeking justice?

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The Mask of Tiger Woods

Debbie Ford | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Tiger Woods, Jamie Jungers, Relationships, Tiger Woods Jamie Jungers, The Shadow, Tiger Affair, Tiger Woods Women List Photos, Tiger Woods Text Mesages, Psychology, Tiger Woods Affair, Tiger, Celebrities, Healthy Living News
Debbie Ford

Tiger couldn't maintain his "Nice Guy Overachiever" act his entire life. How could he or anyone continually push down all his unmet needs and human impulses that are built into our everyday human wiring?

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Johnny Appleseder, What Rosh Hashanah and Autumn Equinox Have in Common

Ellen Whitehurst | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Honey, Seasons, Blessings, Strength, Fall, Apples, Oranges, L'shana Tova, Gain, Lemons, Cloves, Grace, Happy New Year, The Shadow, Autumn Equinox, Apple Cider, Cinnamon, Healthy Living News
Ellen Whitehurst

The pages are turning on the Jewish New Year as we offer expressions of joy and thanksgiving for the healthy harvest that the coming Autumnal Equinox portends.

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The Ethics of Insight

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychotherapy, Carol Smaldino, Morality, Distraction, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Ethics, Religion and Morality, Politics of Distraction, The Shadow, Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

Distraction is the redirection of attention from the social, economic, political, and climate emergencies that afflict us locally and globally.

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What A Jerk!

Rabbi Alan Lurie | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Inner Life, Spirituality, The Shadow, Healthy Living News
Rabbi Alan Lurie

The reluctance to accept parts of ourselves that don't fit the self-image we've created -- who we think that we are, and who we want to appear to others -- is actually a universal human experience.

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