LIFE THERAPY
Jung referred to a potential for living whose opposite he called ‘The Unlived Life.’
For most of us there appears to be a sense of potential for living that many have come to call living your best life, or living out your true potential; living that version of yourself you consider to be your truest, most authentic self.
But what is this potential version of you? Does it really exist, and if so, how might you become it?
Continue readingThe following text is taken from my book The Path.
In a very real sense, the creative process that governs everything is in us – it is us, because we are not separate from the universe that is in essence creative. You are it, and therefore, you are it evolving – a part of its unfolding and its becoming.
Its creative becoming is what you are.
Continue readingA video about the potential pitfalls of excess.
Continue readingYou only need to observe people at play, especially children, to get a sense of what it is about.
In general it seems fair to say that at its foundation play is the ability to model experience without having to have that actual experience – in particular, you can explore practically any situation in a way that exposes you to a level of danger, risk or threat that at any time you can step back from.
Continue readingThe American Satirist Tom Lehrer had a story about his philosopher friend Hen3ry (He spelt his name with a 3 because he was such an individualist) and the words of wisdom that he shared just before they took him away to the Massachusetts state home for the bewildered.
“Life is like a sewer:” He said.
“What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”
Continue readingDo what you are asked, get a reward.
Do what you have been told not to and get punished. This is extrinsic motivation. It comes from an outside source.
For most of us reward and punishment was, and is, a significant part of life. It formed the foundation of how we were motivated in the education (some might say indoctrination) systems that we went through, and then, by extension, we experienced (or still experience as an integral part of the the industrialised work of work. The stark fact is that the majority of people are in work to earn money – not as an expression of their own inner light, their own potential, or their own truth.
Continue readingStudent accommodation. Northern England. Gas heater on full blast. Mugs of tea. Small plates of toast on every surface.
Crammed into the tiny space were five women and me.
It was my birthday. Somewhere in my mid twenties. The room smelt only the way a room full of young women in their dressing gowns can. We had all been smiling a lot. There were two gifts remaining to be shared.
Continue readingAs mentioned in my previous post, marketing and sales are not just a science but also an art. Not in the way of being cunning, not an art in that way, but rather in the way of presenting and sharing what you have to offer; as a creative expression of what you have to offer.
Continue readingThere was a point I failed to make in the accompanying video. The point was this:
Would you benefit from getting an income from doing what you love and being financially independent as a result?
Continue readingIf there is an art to showing up it is in the ‘willingness to show up’ rather than exercising the power of ones will. It is about the willingness to endure rather than forcing ourselves to endure. Relaxing into discomfort that comes with challenge has a different quality to gritting ones teeth.
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