Are you a people pleaser?
Are you a people pleaser? Are you someone who regularly denies or hides your own feelings and thoughts in order to avoid conflict or rejection? Do you feel or have you learned that you need to act...
View Article“Life is long if you know how to use it.” Seneca
“Life is long if you know how to use it.” Seneca (4BC – 65AD) Seneca, about two thousand years ago wrote: “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long...
View ArticleThis Above All; Spiritual Memoir
I have recently written a book, which is to be published in April by TAT Press in the USA. It’s a memoir titled This Above All. The review copy, the work in progress. I’ve been asked, why a memoir,...
View ArticleThe Origin of Self Scripts
The Origin of Self Scripts Everyone has self-scripts; messages we repeat to ourselves frequently. It’s our internal running commentary, often below the radar of attention but sometimes loud enough to...
View ArticleThis Above All, a spiritual biography by Tess Hughes
Introductory Chapter to This Above All a spiritual biography by Tess Hughes. A few years ago a man wrote asking me if I would consider writing my...
View ArticleAnxiety, results from misidentification of who we really are.
Anxiety Anxiety is a chronic condition as opposed to fear which tends to be a response to an immediate danger. We can name the fear. We experience a flood of adrenaline when exposed to a danger and...
View ArticleThree stages of Life
Three Stages of a Human Life There are three layers to a human life, physical, psychological and spiritual. They develop or mature in that order. Each layer has a developmental duration of around...
View ArticleWhat is Spiritual?
What is Spiritual? The word spiritual means different things to different people. It often has connotations of religion or psychic phenomena or physical healing. To some people the word suggests...
View ArticleAttitudes for spiritual growth
Attitudes The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. -William James An attitude is the feeling or disposition towards...
View ArticleAn example of self-inquiry
The first step in self inquiry is self observation. If you don’t see your own inner workings you cannot analyse them. What you cannot see about yourself, you are unconscious of. I think it was Carl...
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