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...]
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...]
Positive Thinking or Just Plain Truth
Playing with the Dark – Careless in the Shadows
We find the dark rather compelling. It’s one of those terribly tantalizing things that we like to reach out and touch just long enough to see what it’s like. Then whether its guilt, or a conscience pricked, or fear over what we just walked into, we jump back and ponder what we’ve just done. And too often the pondering teases us just enough to … [Read more...]
Perfection – The Elusive Search
It is interesting that the pursuit of perfection, which so many of us are embroiled in, is in reality an impossible goal. And it is odd that we would put so much thought and energy into a goal that in reality we will never achieve. It would follow then that if we are intent upon such an impossible goal, something of great need must be driving … [Read more...]
Pain to Paralysis – Coming Apart at the Seams
Pain is both a product and by-product of our life. Clearly, we’re no stranger to pain as we’ve met its variant forms on a variety of occasions, in a variety of situations, with a whole variety of responses to it. Pain becomes that entirely unwanted but all too common partner who refuses to leave us alone for too long, if it leaves us alone at … [Read more...]
Mining Memories – The Tools of Memories
Memories can either be annoying or painful recollections of times and events that we would much prefer to completely erase from the whiteboard of our memories. Or they might be brazenly intrusive, throwing their images across the forefront of our minds at the most inopportune of times. And in some more soothing cases they might be calming and … [Read more...]
Memorials – How We Mark Our Lives
Our lives are littered with a startling array of memorials. It seems that we have the need to lay down markers at various junctures of our lives in order to memorialize those chosen junctures. We are a people of history; of times and places that at times and in places need to be marked as having something of robust significance. Yet, we … [Read more...]
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Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC