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519 - Access Imagination and Intuition that Ai Can’t Touch with Angus Fletcher PhD
podcasts.apple.comdefined strategy, unlimited tactics - defining a Project destination and then improvising your way there
“Imagination is story, story is plot, plot is plan, imagination is planning. The brain evolved imagination in order to make plans.” Anger and anxiety are threat responses, our brain wants to deal with the threat through planning, we have to use our imagination. Kids don’t have a lot of anxiety or anger because when they have a threat response, they imagine something.”
Hope requires a doable plan - when hope is gone it’s time to imagine some new possibilities.
imagination as a tool - in magick, not is it true but is it useful?
She had just spoken a truth that every woman who has made the descent knows. Women find their way back to themselves not by moving up and out into the light like men, but by moving down into the depths of the ground of their being.
Maureen Murdock • The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness
write with trepidation about the descent because I have great respect for the process and do not want to trivialize it. It is a sacred journey. In our culture, however, it is usually categorized as a depression which must be medicated and eliminated as quickly as possible. No one likes to be around someone who is depressed. If we chose, however, to
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There is a simple exercise to silence this inner tyrant and to train the heroine in the art of satisfaction. Divide a piece of paper into three columns. In the first column write something that you have done today, for example, “I weeded the garden.” In the next column write “I am satisfied” and in the third column write “And that’s enough!” It may
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Also, fear is sneaky. It establishes a foothold and sits, content. While you confront it, it is small and weak, and looks back at you with timorous eyes, so that you wonder how it could ever stir you for more than a moment. Turn your back, and it waxes, casting giant shadows and flickering in the corner of your eye, leaning lingeringly on the
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When we have a negative view of ourselves, a negative view of the future, and a negative view of our circumstances, we are depressed.
Dr Evan Parks • Chronic Pain Rehabilitation
When we feel powerless to make important changes in our lives, we are going to experience depression. The key to change is not stopping, masking, or numbing the depressing emotions, but changing the thinking and behavior that feeds the depression. We need to find ways to face the challenges that cause us to feel powerless without letting our sense
... See moreDr Evan Parks • Chronic Pain Rehabilitation
When no strategy works, a sense of helplessness can weigh on a person every day.