Add More Ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness
Holding on to old resentments, habits and situations is just like being dragged along by a powerboat. You might think it’s your boyfriend, your mother, your company, your childhood, your friends or your circumstances that are creating whatever state you’re stuck in. But you have more power than you realize, or maybe than you’re willing to admit.
Gabrielle Bernstein • Add More Ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness
On the other hand, make your friendships more romantic.
Gabrielle Bernstein • Add More Ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness
For example, after Hanna committed thirty days to the ~ing Equation, she noticed that her family hadn’t changed much, but her feelings toward them and how she felt when she was with them had changed. Her family’s expectations and backhanded remarks that used to make her crazy no longer affected her emotionally. She was able to release them in the m
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To help you see this differently, the Course’s philosophy is that you should strive to make your romantic relationships more brotherly and your brotherly relationships more romantic. The term “brotherly” simply means “friendship.” The Course teaches that you should stop idolizing your lover and bring an equal perception of love to everyone in your
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When you release your lover, you let him be who he needs to be, and in the midst of forgiveness you can truly see him for who he really is.
Gabrielle Bernstein • Add More Ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness
The “special relationship” is always on shaky ground. This “special” person has been placed on such a high pedestal that if he or she makes the slightest mistake, you will fall apart as a result of feeling incomplete.
Gabrielle Bernstein • Add More Ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness
“You’ve hit your rock bottom, which means you’ve stopped falling. It’s only up from here!”
Gabrielle Bernstein • Add More Ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness
An additional activity that will physically help your ~ing guide you above the ego is hiking.
Gabrielle Bernstein • Add More Ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness
The fearful ego tells us that by holding on to old resentments we protect ourselves from getting hurt again, or “falling.” The irony is that the release is in the fall.