One evening an old Cherokee Indian told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, ‘My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all.One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good.
The Container Exercise: Many years ago, I came across this simple yet powerful exercise for couples or anyone experiencing stress or conflict in a relationship. The greatest gift one human being can give to another is listening with compassion and without judgment. You don’t have to agree with what they are saying – just listen.
Stressful thoughts pop into our awareness every day. For many of us, they tend to be persistent and cause uncomfortable emotions and bodily sensations. We try many methods to deal with these thoughts – we try to suppress them, express them, change them into positive thoughts, deny them, and distract ourselves. We even try to
Procrastination is frequently a behavioral response to fear. The behavioral responses include avoidance of the task(s) or using distraction to deal with fear. Either way, we are seldom relaxed when we procrastinate, and this exaggerates the problem. Each procrastinator develops and responds to his/her own specific fears. In varying degrees, we are all afraid of
