Author: sashen
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In fact, I DON’T want to ATTRACT anything to me
If I get one more email with information about how to Attract more money, more clients, the right relationship, a better job, a new car, or anything else for that matter, I think I’m going to scream (actually, I just got THREE of them, which made me scream, and then write this post). Here’s another…
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Okay, Oprah, let’s settle this once and for all…
Have questions or having trouble manipulating the atoms in the universe with your thoughts? Well, Oprah feels your pain and is going to do a show just for people like you. But rather than merely attracting guests by seeing, believing and receiving, she’s actively soliciting people who, for some reason, can’t make the UNIVERSAL LAW…
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Hoping to be a successhole
I’m on a linguistic role. Here’s my new submission for addition into the lexicon: Successhole (suc·cess·hole; pronounciation: \sÉ™k-ˈses-(h)Ål\). noun. A person who, upon achieving some dramatic change in status or income makes it abundantly clear that s/he thinks this change is primarily a result of her/his actions and discounts the role of luck, chance, and…
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Manifrustration
I’m proposing a new word for the English language: Manifrustration (man·i·frus·tra·tion ; pronunciation: \ËŒma-nÉ™-frÉ™s-ˈtrÄ-shÉ™n\) Noun. 1) The unhappiness associated with not getting what you want after attempting to influence the universe with your thoughts 2) The displeasure that occurs when the manifestation “master” says you haven’t gotten what you want because there’s something wrong with…
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If you think you can, or you think you can’t… who cares what you think!
Get this image in your mind: a small, framed, slightly yellowing needlepoint, hanging near the front door of a farm house, and stitched into it, among the flowers and butterflies is the phrase “Home Sweet Home.” It’s supposed to evoke calmness and happiness and appreciation and warmth. Very Norman Rockwell. I like to use the…
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2012… a time for smarter pinheads
It’s not often that I use words like pinhead, bonehead, moron or idiot… in public. 😉 But today I’m inspired. My local newspaper, the Boulder, Colorado Daily Camera, published an article called Five years and counting: Will the world end in 2012? about the phenomenon that the Mayan calendar ends on December 12, 2012 (12/12/12).…
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The Freudian Trance, Oprah style…
I didn’t mean to watch Oprah, honestly. But I fell asleep on the couch with the TV on and when I woke up, there she was, in the middle of a makeover show. This show was the 2nd part of a series about hairstyles. On the first show, Oprah took 100 audience members and matched…
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We *are* in the Matrix
What follows is a book review for a book I haven’t read yet (I just ordered it). I’m reprinting this here not only to point to what seems like a great read, but because the review itself highlights some of my all-time favorite cognitive biases and thinking errors. While neither the book nor the review…
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The Freudian Trance, part 1
Freud was known to poo-poo hypnotism, which is ironic considering the trance he has placed Western civilization under for almost 100 years. Here’s an example: We love good stories. It’s like we’re wired to tell them, to hear them, to make them up. The earliest cave paintings seem to be stories of the hunt. We…
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The Integration of Bowling and Life
I loved bowling when I was a kid. If I couldn’t get a ride to the lanes from my parents, or the mom of a sometimes-friend (the time being “when I wanted to go bowling”), I would walk the 5 miles to the alley. And if I didn’t have any money, I’d pick up trash…
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Absolutely Relative
In many “spiritual” circles, they refer to two kinds of “truth”: Relative and Absolute. Relative Truth is what we know and experience on a daily basis. There’s a you, there’s a me, we’re separate individuals. Events transpire over time. As the Zen boys would say, “Mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.” Absolute Truth on…
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The Great and Powerful Allower
I was given a popular meditation book recently. Aside from the confusing fact that the cover blurb said, “The most American form of meditation,” yet the book taught basic Buddhist meditation practices, I was struck by the fundamental teaching: Whatever arises, simply allow it to be. Sounds like a great prescription for living, doesn’t it?…
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Shave and a haircut, two…
How many of you automatically added “bits” to the end of the title of this post? There’s a great scene in a Steve Martin movie: We’re outside his hotel door and hear him practicing the tuba. A woman walks to the door. He plays the tune for “Shave and a haircut, two…” and the woman…
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Accepting Things As They Aren’t
My friend Robert Hover was one of the first westerners authorized to teach Buddhist meditation. This was about 45 years ago. As part of Robert’s training with his teacher, U Ba Khin, he developed a particular way of attending to painful or unpleasant sensations that not only led to the discomfort disappearing but also resulted…
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Our REAL greatest fear
Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. And that the moment we realize this, we will get hit by a bus and lose control of our bowels. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. Because that light shines on our darkness… and sometimes…