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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
At harvest time, my mind inevitably turns to ‘cycles.’ Life is full of cycles, and harvest is the closing of one of them. The harvest cycle begins with an intention, the intention to grow a crop, and it ends with the actual harvest. In between there was soil preparation, seeding, watering, weeding, etc. Seeing the cycle through to completion took work and a lot of patience and simply ‘allowing.’
Categories: Happiness, Self Growth
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Tags: cycle, cycles, harvest, harvest time, life, life cycles
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
You and I have experienced people who seem to be stuck in chronic unhappiness. It is as if they had “Victim” tattooed on their foreheads and wore a badge saying, “long-suffering.” There is no question that some of the chronically unhappy people have suffered severe trauma and bad times. But there are other chronically unhappy people who seem to have everything going for them. They may justify their gloom with excuses like, “How can I be happy when some animals are going extinct?”
Categories: Happiness
| Tags: chronic happiness, chronic unhappiness, self responsibility, victims
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Why celebrate?
If you fulfill an intention, if you achieve something, and then you celebrate what you have accomplished, you are acknowledging to your center and to the universe what you have done. This tends to anchor it as real.
Too often, when we achieve something, we forget, or neglect out of false modesty to celebrate and anchor what we have done. Instead, with no change in pace, we just whimper, “Next!” We are left with the feeling we haven’t got anything done.
Categories: Happiness, Self Growth
| Tags: celebrate life, celebrating life, fulfillment, Happiness, personal growth
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
We all want to have a sense of psychological well-being, that is, we want to be happy. So what do we do to gain happiness? We work harder. We buy lottery tickets. We invest. We do anything we can to improve our economic well-being, because we believe it translates directly into happiness. Furthermore, we do this as individuals and as a society.
Categories: Happiness
| Tags: Happiness, Neill Neill, psychological, psychological well-being, therapy
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
For most families the holiday season is an emotional time. Our young children make more demands upon us. Our adult children expect something of us. If our parents are alive, they may have expectations of us. Our friends may expect us to go shopping with them or go to parties—thus causing holiday stress!
Categories: Happiness
| Tags: holiday celebrations, holiday season, holiday-stress
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