effect of having and caring for a pet
Request: When I’m back home with my dogs, I always feel like it increases my LoC, in the heart, especially. My guess is that its in the ‘taking care’ aspect.
Self-help
Serenity Prayer
Prayer written by Reinhold Niebuhr and adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs -- wikipedia.
a problem
A situation, matter, or person that is hard to deal with or understand. A personal matter that causes one difficulty or needs to be dealt with -- American Heritage Dictionary.
statement: self-esteem is automatically monetized
The principle that income is naturally and effortlessly attracted by awareness of one's self-worth.
level: "I'm not enough"
Request: it seems to be a common belief among people - What is it essentially? Grief? Shame? At what level its healed? Is it primarily in thymus?
self-sabotage
Request: engaging in behaviors, either consciously or unconsciously, that lead to the end of a relationship. This might involve pushing the other person away or finding reasons to get out of the relationship.
“Do what makes you happy”
Pretty good life advice.
level: money comes when it's needed
Request: I have a fear of losing money and sometimes get stingy.
the peace of admitting "I don't know"
In the radical honesty of not knowing, feeling neither lack nor a burdened obligation to find out.
fear of rejection
Request: Common concern for people.
family enmeshment
Request: I noticed close family often brings up heavy emotions to let go of. Sometimes it’s hard to differentiate who’s emotions belong to who.
wanting to fix oneself
Request: Curious how this calibrates since I realized that this has come to motivate part of my spiritual work and it seems to be of the spiritual ego.
level: a couple is able to talk through any problem
Priority request.
Wherever You Go, There You Are, by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Request: A book on mindfulness meditation and slowing down.
level: not responding to insults or provocations
Priority request: To avoid emotional involvement on our part. (I’ve just understood it is useless to reason with certain people).