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10 Life Lessons You Should Already Know – Part 2

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Part 1 here.

So many of us simply live day to day, trying to make the next day as good as the last, or better. The day-to-day can be fulfilling or grueling. If it’s the latter, it’s possible that there is a primal need at your deepest level that is not getting fulfilled.

If that’s the case, it will be harder to attain the peace and balance you may be looking for.

This article covers lessons five through ten, and helps you understand what you may need to focus on to create a happier life for yourself.

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10 Life Lessons You Should Already Know – Part 1

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life lessonsSo many of us simply live day to day, trying to make the next day as good as the last or better. The day-to-day can be fulfilling, or it can be grueling.

If it’s the latter, it’s possible that there is a primal need at your deepest level not getting fulfilled. If that’s the case, it will be harder to attain the peace and balance you may be looking for.

This article covers the first five of the lessons and helps you understand what you may need to focus on to create a happier life for yourself. [Read more…]

Knowing is a box – The Commitment to Open Mindedness

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Have you ever known something to be true, only to find out you were completely wrong? I’ve had arguments with people where half-way through I figured out I was wrong, but I still held my ground because of my commitment to winning.

It’s time to learn how to create and keep an open mind so that you are flexible in all of life’s challenges.

“Knowing” something limits what more you can know, but admitting that you don’t know everything opens the the door to endless possibilities.

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Releasing Emotional Triggers in Relationships

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Emotional triggers are the surprises that we get when someone we love or a situation causes us to have a reaction that we haven’t processed yet.

For example, if you were yelled at as a child and you attached being yelled at to fear, you might get triggered as an adult when you are near someone yelling.

Triggers are typically childhood beliefs that aren’t necessarily true anymore and need to be addressed to save your relationships. Once you release your old triggers, you can view the world from an entirely different place instead of through the eyes of a fearful child.

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Practicing Presence in a World of Past Hurts and Future Worries

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The present moment in the now

Presence is that state where the past doesn’t exist, and the future hasn’t been written. It’s what’s in the now.

Eckhart Tolle and many other spiritual teachers talk about it. It’s that place where past hurts and future worries seem to dissolve, so that you can experience what’s really happening instead of the picture your mind is painting of reality.

It’s clarity. And it’s what we’re here to talk about today.

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