How To Transform Your Fear
Many of us run away or hide from our fears because they seem scary, uncomfortable, or embarrassing. We also erroneously think we "shouldn't" have them or that we are somehow "wrong" for feeling scared.
Many of us run away or hide from our fears because they seem scary, uncomfortable, or embarrassing. We also erroneously think we "shouldn't" have them or that we are somehow "wrong" for feeling scared.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
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realsimple.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
Blindsided by a job loss, the unfamiliar isn't to be feared: It can be a chance to turn your life around....
Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living
Your expectations are clues that can guide you to healing your deeper needs so that you can feel more balanced as a whole.
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
Whether we seek protection, or try to prove how brave we are, we often miss fear's true opportunity to teach us authentic courage.
Jim Selman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
What if wisdom has more to do with 'giving up' our beliefs and attachments than 'getting' more insights or having 'more, better and different' of whatever we think is important?
nytimes.com | Gina Kolata | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
Ms. Smith, a tall, imposing woman, takes on the character of her subjects by repeating their exact words, complete with regional accents, ums and uhs ...
Kiri Westby | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Although I have made friends with fear, I have not conquered it. Fear arises as an instinct. But the more we work with it, the less it controls our actions.
Martin Lewis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
It's March 16, 1965. We have a Democratic President. We have large Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate. It's long been part of the progressive and liberal platform...
Mike Robbins | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living
Many of us, myself included, get so obsessed with doing things "right," or at the very least not doing anything that could be perceived as "wrong," we organize much of what we say and do to avoid ever being "wrong."
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
It was not surprising to learn that New Jersey and Virginia both elected Republican Governors. But I could not have predicted the loss in the tiny, liberal, free state of Maine.
Robert Englund | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment
A Nightmare on Elm Street's original Freddy Krueger reveals five things that are currently giving him nightmares.
Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
Loss and change cannot be prevented in life. It would be nice, but the reality is that the future is uncertain and anything can happen. The key is to stay out of fear by controlling your physiology.
Therese Borchard | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
Fears are like annoying relatives. You can't avoid them forever, and ignoring them won't make them go away.
Lisa Guest | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Anyone can say anything. Anyone can come up with a line. With a gift bag gab of wisdom, knowledge and confidence, someone can really cover the world and be quite deceptive. There are those that do it. They make it bad for the rest.
Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
A full defense of the public option requires moving beyond the basic arguments for reform. It requires reform proponents to take seriously the fears of opponents, even if they make up only a minority of the American public.
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
What does "not being into you" mean? People assume that it is just about sexual attraction, but is it just this?
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
It is an interesting dichotomy - one group seems to open with age, the other seems to close. With openness, it seems that death is much less frightening as if it is merely another viewpoint of sorts.
Kiri Westby | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Last Friday I went to hear a keynote address from Iran's only Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi. I was blown away.
Doc Childre | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
Many people are feeling a shift in consciousness happening now and some are predicting a major planetary shift around the year 2012.
Joseph LeDoux | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York
Remember Jim Carrey's character in Eternal Sunshine? He wanted the memory of Clementine extracted, traces of her wiped clean. Surely this was a film fantasy and impossible in real life. Or is it?
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
The image of corporations as "hard-ass", "bottom-line" machines of productivity is appealing to those who wish to believe that money comes from automatic sources that respond to cold, hard, practical and rational interventions.
Susan Moeller | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
Too much of what comes back to the US about Pakistan is breaking news of such events as a suicide attack. We Americans project our own fears, our own concerns on them.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living
Working with social anxiety - and phobias - can take many forms including therapy, meditation, and medication. And I have found that humor also helps.
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.
Mike Robbins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living