I often get letters from folks sharing their experiences and asking questions. This correspondence can offer spectacular insights and musings that answer questions that many others have on their mind. So I’m sharing one with you today…
what I'm sharing with you here is a little far afield from what I usually what I share with you – but allows me to give you some fun insight into an American living in Europe...
The majority of people who come to me to learn how to release their difficult emotions report that they've historically coped by taking cannabis to make them feel better. I understand this, as back in the day I used to do this for myself to counteract feelings of crippling anxiety.
As you likely know there's a big important U.S. mid-term election happening next week (Tuesday, November 8th) with a lot riding on it. Yes, from my new home in southern Europe I am encouraging you to vote!
As you may know, I was in a meditation retreat up the road from my Portugal home for a week in a spectacular sacred ancient region called Sagres. I hadn't been in retreat for, well, since I don't remember when.
I often get letters from folks sharing their experiences and asking questions. This correspondence can offer spectacular insights and musings that answer questions that many others have on their mind. So I’m sharing one with you today…
Don't worry. Be happy! Whether it's a secular or spiritual environment, countless approaches to managing your thinking is based on "Don't think those bad thoughts! Think only good thoughts!" But it's a prescription for mental disaster.
It's been a long difficult road for me getting to a place where I can receive criticism and praise without veering from one emotion to another, feeling rejected or "approved" of. And in my work as an emotions therapist, I find others struggling with this as well in their own personal and professional lives.
I often get letters from folks sharing their experiences and asking questions. This correspondence can offer spectacular insights and musings that answer questions that many others have on their mind. So I’m sharing one with you today…
Plain and simple – anybody who partakes in cannabis knows that the "lazy stoner" stereotype is bunk. From my perspective, it was simply one more sleazy component of the War on Drugs that hurled shame at people who communed with the plant.
