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My attention
Realization for today. My attention is a valuable thing. It determines what ideas and images I let into my psyche and experience. I can determine what I’m paying attention to by how I feel. My emotional energy is a pointer to what is going on in my thoughts and beliefs. Am I believing in a…
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Innocence and experience
William Blake wrote a poem, The Clod and the Pebble, which was included in the collection Innocence and Experience (1794). Poem: The Clod and the Pebble Love seeketh not Itself to please,Nor for itself hath any care;But for another gives its ease,And builds a Heaven in Hells despair. So sang a little Clod of Clay, Trodden…
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We never see what we are afraid of
I have been reading the works of Phenius Parkhurst Quimby, the father of New Thought. There is a quote from his manuscripts that reads… Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here…
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On Being a Mentor
My understanding of the term mentor has changed over the years. I used to put my teachers and mentors on pedestals. They always fell off. I’ve put myself on a pedestal. I fell off. Then, after getting a graduate degree in education and teaching for 18 years as a professor in college, I learned that…
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Challenging Your Beliefs
Here’s a little diddy I created for you comic fans. You can also find it on my website https://edrawingboard.com/. Click on the image to be taken to the entire Webtoon.
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Changing a Belief
As I was reading Mind over Medicine this week, and it was illustrating how our thoughts and emotions correlate to chemical/electrical processes which then correlate to disease, I was asking myself, what can I do with this information? Ideas about that came in Chapter 7, Happiness is Preventative Medicine (page 138). I was trying to…
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