We all have negative thinking habits — and for good reason. Our survival instincts track our biggest perceived threat and attend to that, so we hear warning voices in our minds. These voices help keep us safe. It is when we turn these voices against ourselves that we bring in self-hate and other self-destructive behaviors. […]
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Can we make peace with our shortcomings and fully love ourselves? Why do we have so much trouble with our imperfections? It can be difficult for us to admit our weaknesses. Perhaps it is because we have set a standard of perfection. It may be an unreasonable standard, but it is an understandable one. Here’s
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In Living Beyond Chronic Pain Part 4, WU World Changer Elizabeth Kipp shares tips to help aid you in releasing negative thinking habits. Late joining this series? Catch up from the beginning with Part 1 or from last week\’s Part 3! Living Beyond Chronic Pain Part 4: 8 Ways to Release Your Negative Thinking Habits
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Living Beyond Chronic Pain Part 3: Chronic pain – Is it Really the Problem? Or is it Something Else? Late joining this series? Catch up from the beginning with Part 1, or from last week\’s Part 2! I never considered chronic pain to be a bully. It was certainly a presence to be reckoned with
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Living Beyond Chronic Pain Part 2 – 5 Ways to Manage Your Stress You can find a life living beyond chronic pain. I’ve listed below 5 effective ways to manage your stress. Shift from Unconscious to Conscious Breathing We all know how to breathe. We do so unconsciously and we are so blessed to have
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Living Beyond Chronic Pain Using Forgiveness You can shift into living beyond chronic pain by relieving silent suffering, using forgiveness. Chronic pain is any pain – physical, emotional, or spiritual – that is felt 15 days out of 30 for three months or more. Silent suffering is a version of chronic pain. It can be
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Black rights, white rights, women’s rights, Native rights, immigrants’ rights… where’s the fight for just plain being human and human rights? Separation, divided nation, reparation, emancipation… when will we have unification? I’m right, he’s wrong, we’re right, they’re wrong… where’s the call for listening, understanding that as we are one, we rise and fall together?
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We feel hurt or wronged by someone in some way and we can easily react with anger. We hold our outrage as a badge of resentment, bitterness, and victimhood. We can wear it, even proudly. Here’s the thing: whether we realize it at the time or not, the negativity that comes with our attachments to
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Report from The Back 40 Part 3: Walking in The Great Forest Edition Imagine standing on the east coast of America in 1500 B.C. peering into the vast hardwood forest that stretches out clear to the Tall Grass Prairie in the flatlands east of the great Rocky Mountains. You see a giant live oak, its
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Report from the Back 40 Part 2: People of the South Wind Edition Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are. – Ortega Y Gasset I live in the fertile, windswept, swaying grasslands in the land of People of the South Wind. Here in the Lawrence, KS
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