Bigger on the Inside
Releasing Your Grip – Possessing Life is Letting Life Possess You
We hold on and we hold on hard. We hold on to a whole bunch of things. And what we choose to hold onto is based on whether we deem those things to be of sufficient value or not. Then, the intensity of our grip on each of these individual things is determined by the degree of value they each have to us. Because we value so many things and because we … [Read more...]
Reality – The Extent of Your Reach
It seems that our singularly reality is sorely limited. The reach of our reality rarely goes beyond the reach of our experience. And such limitations are hugely limiting. Yet, despites its limitations we see our singularly reality as being limitless, or nearly so. And because we do, we have terrible difficulty believing that anything else exists … [Read more...]
Christmas – A Decision to Counter Death by Death
Purpose in Pain
The reactionary response that pain naturally and quite adamantly elicits is one designed to eradicate the pain. Our knee-jerk reaction when in pain is to determine methodologies, or strategies, or obtain resources designed to eliminate the pain as cleanly and as quickly as possible. Any other notion is typically never even considered in light of … [Read more...]
Consequences – Trying to Side-Step the Inevitable
Issac Newton said, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” If only that weren’t so. Too many times we formulate plans that we simply love. What we don’t necessarily love are the consequences that come along with those plans. Sometimes those consequences can be real spoilers, so we do everything we can do to avoid them, deny … [Read more...]
Depression
Positive Thinking or Just Plain Truth
Discouragement – Being Dense to Discouragement
Sometimes life is simply about fighting the battle. We succumb not to the battle, but to the sense that life is nothing but a battle. Too often we choose to contemplate the battle, analyze the battle, and become engrossed in all the many and varied aspects of the battle. And we become lost in this incessant process of contemplation when maybe we … [Read more...]
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Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC