Blue Ocean Emotions – 2
Emotional Intelligence requires feeling, not intellect. It’s the manipulation of emotion that’s done using awareness.
Blue Ocean Emotion – 1
Emotional intelligence should require a measure of positive outcome: how much and for whom. Self-awareness and emotional experience are completely different.
What Is A Changed Person?
An exploration of the three components of personal change: rationality, emotion, and awareness.
Happiness, Failure, and Grace
As Peter Drucker indicates, happiness, like money, comes when the system is working. You don’t aim for the money and you don’t aim for happiness, you aim to make the system work.
The Veil of Sanity
I believe happiness and success are dispensable accessories to spiritual balance. You don't need either, and their pursuit is a distraction.
Doing One’s Business
Human beings are pathological in the literal sense: personal logic is always distorted. But peoples’ logic is more distorted when they act in groups.
Origin of Chronic Illness and the Nonsense of Medical Hypnosis
"The origin of chronic illness lies in the struggle with our emotions. More specifically, the conflict between the controlled person we have created ourselves to be and the emotions inside us..."
Conversations With My Anus
"Imagine parts of your body carrying personalities of their own. This personality cannot only split from what you consider yourself, but can speak. The question is, when this happens, are we hearing something new, or are we just 'making it up'? ..."
Our Lack of Sleep
Many of the consequences of insufficient sleep are highlighted in Matthew Walker's 2017 book is titled, Why We Sleep, Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams. The extracts I'm quoting come from his penultimate chapter, "Sleep and Society."
Season of Dreams
"Living systems, like us, engage our environment. We interact, express, modulate, and are modulated by our environment... We are not just 'subject to' or 'creatively imagining'; we do both. Their combination is how we control our world..."
Three Forms of Stress
Stress comes as tension, compression, or confusion. Each type is different and calls for a different resolution. Consider their differences and their different needs.
The Reality of Illusion
This piece is about what we think is real and the difference between sensation and feeling, the worlds of imagination and dreams and making dreams real.