Gratitude in action is an attitude practiced, implement, and lived through. Gratitude means that we are open. It means that we surrender to that over which we have no control. It is going with the flow. It is being kind to self.
Gratitude is a gift that you can give yourself each and every day. When [...]
Pets give us so much love and joy. In my life they have been such teachers of lessons that have yielded in me an ever-evolving gratitude. There are the happy times, the stressful times, the sad times, and the times of loss with pets. And each step of the way, such love, such spirituality, when we tap into it and connect with it.
Daily Meditations and Thoughts Audio Podcast by A.J. Mahari. December 8, 2009 – The Moment. Daily Meditations and Thoughts Audio Podcast by author and life coach, A.J. Mahari. December 8, 2009 – The Moment. Attention and awareness to the moment is where emotional peace and balance is best achieved. Looking back or looking ahead means that our focus and attention is not in the now of the unfolding moment.
I have had pets most of my adult life. We have laws that require us to vaccinate our pets. Our vets remind us yearly that our pets require vaccinations. I have now had two very bad experiences with pets and vaccinations. One was years ago and it cost my cat his life. One is on-going right now with my puppy, Buffy, currently, and suddenly after having her second set of vaccinations at just 12 weeks of age became lame, had a fever, swollen paws – diagnosis – Hypertrophic Osteodystrophy (HOD). In Buffy’s case it is highly suspected, even by my Vet, that Buffy’s HOD (or HOD-like illness) is a reaction to her last set of vaccinations. Are vaccinations, as recommended by most vets helpful or harmful?
There is stigma attached to both mental illness and suicide. Therefore, on top of what people feel by the time they are in crisis, there is the double bind of shame that leads so many to suffer quietly until they cannot bear what they feel any longer.
The key to recovery from so many things that you may carry with you into adulthood from childhood is your inner-child. Whether you have Bordelrine Personality Disorder or you have been abused, or you have issues of abandonment from your childhood reaching back, reaching inside to that wounded and hurting little girl or boy inside of you is one of the most rewarding aspects of any journey of recovery.
Whether you have a mental illness, personality disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, love and care about someone who does, or whether you are stressed out, often anxious, or if you have been sexually abused or had a traumatic or even a merely difficult up-bringing (most have some wounds from childhood) or consider yourself to be healthy and just fine Radical Acceptance can and will enhance your overall quality of life and your spiritual experience in and of everyday life.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder has become synonymous with pejorative vilifying stereotypes that paint everyone diagnosed with it along with others with varying degrees of narcissism as monstrous people without worth. Rarely, in life, is the sum total of any human being with a personality disorder or not that simple or that black and white. Narcissists are in pain. Their humanity must be recognized.
Those with personality disorders either are not able to, or have tremendous difficulty, with the dialectical dyad of healthy relating. Personality disordered individuals are for the most part very black and white. They live in painful inner-worlds of dissociative split-off opposites.
Contrary to the myth that women are only abused by men, some lesbian women abuse their female partners. Lesbian abusers perpetrate violence, and all types of abuse. Lesbian abusers perpetrate sexual abuse, emotional abuse, verbal abuse, domestic violence, financial and spiritual abuse upon their intimates.
