Category: Healing

An Exercise to Reduce Negative Inner Voice

Recent­ly, I’ve been work­ing with a num­ber of clients who are inter­est­ed in reduc­ing their neg­a­tive thoughts, self-talk and defen­sive reac­tions. Here are some notes from our dis­cov­er­ies togeth­er and a relat­ed net search.* • Neg­a­tive inner voice (inner crit­ic) express­es thoughts ini­tial­ly formed as a set of rules and penal­ties aimed to pro­tect us… Con­tin­ue read­ing An Exer­cise to Reduce Neg­a­tive Inner Voice

The Horse

I stopped along a coun­try road to take a pho­to­graph. I had been down by the riv­er under the moun­tain, but the shad­ows had grown longer and now on my way home the moun­tain was immersed in late after­noon light. At first, two hors­es gal­loped to see me, but they soon wan­dered off, dis­tract­ed by… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Horse

Leadership is a Field

I believe lead­er­ship is a kind of psy­chic field where noble acts take place, acts of self-affir­­ma­­tion, trust, love and ethics. When the field is there, the right things occur, the right things come out of our mouths. Our deeds are part of a greater sto­ry. When the field is off, we stum­ble. I was… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lead­er­ship is a Field

On Negative Ego

An elder­ly man I once knew — and now prob­a­bly long dead — used to com­plain bit­ter­ly about all the peo­ple with neg­a­tive ego. I nev­er real­ly under­stood what he meant by the term, as it seemed to derive from some of the eso­teric and cultish lit­er­a­ture he fre­quent­ly read. It felt far afield of… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Neg­a­tive Ego