Reflection and Self Discovery
37 Articles & Excerpts
Benchmarking Reality
 If Only: How to Turn Regret Into Opportunity
by Neal Roese, Ph.D.
Counterfactual thoughts provide benchmarks for reality. By offering standards of comparison (this happened instead of that), they place the factual events of our lives into context. An experience feels all the more precious, or all the more poignant
Introduction
 Loving What Is : Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
by Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
The first time I watched The Work, I realized that I was witnessing something truly remarkable. What I saw was a succession of people, young and old, educated and uneducated, who were learning to question their own thoughts, the thoughts that were most pa
Do You Believe What You Think?
 I Need Your Love - Is That True? How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead
by Byron Katie, Michael B. Katz
Have you ever felt that the harder you look for love, the more it seems to elude you? Or that seeking approval makes you feel insecure? If you have, there's a reason. It's because seeking love and approval is a sure way to lose the awareness of both.
Shopping as Self-Creation
 Attention Shoppers! : The Woman's Guide to Enlightenment Through Shopping
by Eve Eliot
All of us long to have an awareness of our true nature, our emotional fingerprints. Sometimes, there is tremendous fear attached to the process of becoming aware, but it beckons compellingly all the same.
Introduction
 Drama Games: Techniques for Self-Development
by Tian Dayton, Ph.D.
Since the cultural revolution and growth potential movement of the '60s and 7()s, games have increasingly come into use in group settings. They are a natural way of bonding a group and creating trust.
If you Believe
 Changeweavers: A Pathway to Spiritual Renewal
by Maida Berenblatt, M.S., Alena Joy Berenblatt
Who are you? Where have you been and where are you going? How much do you understand of the motivation behind the way you think, feel and behave? How are you different from the other people in your family?
Road Map for Discovering Your True Self
 Bradshaw On: The Family
by John Bradshaw
Our lives are limited by our beliefs. In my active addiction, I believed that my life and happiness depended on external forces. I made decisions according to that belief. My false belief led me to make wrong choices.
Transformation Through Action
 The Transformation Handbook
by Jan Maizler, MSW, LCSW
The core of transformation by action is the profound self-challenge that comes with recognizing our fears, realizing the costs of having avoided those fears, eliminating our fears against them, facing them, and conquering them. Our reflexive reaction
Re-Discovering Yourself
by Alina Ruigrok
Have you reached a point in your life where you now look at yourself, yet do not recognize who you are? Do you feel like you have lost yourself, not looking the way you used to, or not acting and doing the things the way you used to do?
Reality Check!
by Joseph Ghabi
What makes us all different from each other is one main factor, that is, the place where we grew up and in respect of that, all of the knowledge and understanding that we accumulate from our parents, our culture, and our religion.
What am I doing with my life as an individual?
by Joseph Ghabi
Really can someone tell me: Where are we going as a human race? What do you think? Take a moment out of your busy day and try to reflect on that very small question that we always try to avoid. What am I doing with my life as an individual?
Grasping Your Life with Both Hands
by Crystal Woods
Do you ever feel your life is a bit like that charging bull? If you do, would you like to know how to dance it into a thing of grace and beauty? The secret is in facing it, taking hold of the horns, and turning them to your advantage.
Clarifying and Living Your Values
Values are what we use as a means to know our true selves. They define us in a unique way and give us a solid foundation on which to build our life and relationships. When two people are considering a committed relationship, they should share values
What Are You Passionate About?
Hopefully this issue will help you to jump-start your new season resolve to pursue your goals and dreams. As you settle into your fall routines; try to make time to identify your passions and grow them into a life that has true meaning, purpose
How's Your Self-Awareness?
This issue was designed to help you to develop greater self-awareness. This critical knowledge will tell you who you really are and help you to accept and love your true self. Without this, you cannot set the goals that will bring about the life changes
Making your Romantic Dreams come True
Are you having the romantic life you have always wanted... in your imagination? Welcome to the club that has many members who feel and live exactly the way you do! Romance is always simple and carefree when it is being acted out in our imaginations.
Emotional Self-Hostage: How to set yourself Free
The bad habit of emotionally holding ourselves hostage is unfortunately quite common. Why do people trap themselves into feeling certain feelings and continue to do things they know are bad for them and make them feel low about themselves?
Relax, Or You're Going To End Up Like All My Dead Friends
Relax, and learn to laugh at yourself, or all the old people you know will laugh at you. They'll say, Look at yourself. You're worrying about everything, and nothing is going right. When are you ever going to learn? You gotta relax, or you're going
Changing the way you look at Yourself
Day by day, the majority of us have a painful war with ourselves. It is a constant fight that includes constant criticism, pressure, anger, sadness and endless cruel comparisons. It is an everyday struggle that gets in the way and keeps you from seeing yo
Embracing Our Dark Side
 Do I Have To Give Up ME to be Loved by GOD?
by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
Our wounded self is our dark or shadow side, not because it is bad but because it is cut off from the light of God. It lives in the darkness of fear and the heaviness of false beliefs instead of in the light of love and truth. Moving toward enlighte
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