Reflection and Self Discovery

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.

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.

What Is Your Power Picture?
by Jan Tincher
What is your Power Picture? Pretend you have a movie screen in your mind, and there is a picture of you on it. How do you look? Check it out. Are your eyes bright and looking people in the eye? Is your breathing even? Is your back straight, are your

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 it is in your life that you don't like?

Look at the things you don't like; piles of junk, stacks of papers, bad walls, noisy environment, cramped quarters. Now, just simply say, I choose to live in a nice, clean environment. Is there any hint in that statement that you want what you have

Each Life has its Place
by Leslie Karen Lobell, M.A.
Life will come and life will go. Many of us search for meaning. We want a reason for our lives. We want to touch this world somehow, and leave a legacy behind. Perhaps, most of all, we need to trust the words: each life has its place.

I want to have friends, a job, and a better relationship with my mother
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
how I can make the relationship with my mother work much better? I have no friends, no income whatsoever, no car of my own, my mother refuses to allow me to drive her car, and I have not one person that I can turn to. Please let me know what, if anything,

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.

Making an Inner Connection for Decision Making

For many years I would meditate about a decision, receive an answer, and say to myself, I already know that and think that I was not getting the right information. I was one of those people who always made simple things difficult.

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.

Life Is Ever Changing : Keeping The Geckos
by Leslie Karen Lobell, M.A.
Sometimes life calls on us to make a little attitude shift. Why not go with the flow, instead of fighting the tide? Life is ever changing, bringing us new lessons every day. Life calls on us to make little adjustments, changes in perspective, all the time

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?

If It Ain’t Coming, It Ain’t Been Sent
by Jan Tincher
OK, now, let's take control of our lives. Rather than be affected negatively by this very powerful Law of Cause and Effect, we should use it positively by always remembering what goes around, comes around. There is no vindictiveness, it's a fact, what

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

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

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.

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.