If you are coming to visit this site or this blog, you or someone you know is likely struggling or has struggled with deep psychological pain. In a recent post Refusing to Forgive: 9 Steps to Break Free, Andrea commented saying:
I feel that while the blogs may provide some little clue to addressing all our concerns. It is in no way enough. I am not saying that it is your job to address our individual griefs but clearly this is a difficult and big topic that cannot be address in 300 words or so. There is no one size fits all. There is a lot of pain up above. And i wish i could talk to all these women. I hope they are all getting someone to talk with. Even if its to take these questions and points further.
Andrea has made a very important point that is worth a blog in itself. Reading a blog post by itself as the sole means of healing the enormous wounding many of have suffered from in our lives is not the answer. If you have are currently struggling from intense anxiety, depression, addiction, or trauma it is very important to seek support at the very least from a caring community, group therapy, or working with a skilled therapist and potentially psychiatrist.
Blogs need to be taken with a grain of salt because they often only cover a piece of a topic. Length of the blog may not be quite as important as I have found in my own life that quotes or short poems at times have a greater impact than reading an entire book. This Viktor Fankl Quote has had an great impact on many people’s lives:
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
This poem by Sufi Poet, Rumi speaks volumes about how our automatic drive to judge everything gets in our way of love:
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language. Even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
It’s important to note that online communities and blogs have a wonderful ability to create daily insight to integrate into daily life and cultivate a sense of connection in community. Blogs are not just about the people writing them as the source of therapy, they are about the community. As people respond to the blogs and hear other’s stories and questions, the thought of not being alone in this world can be healing. Blogs can be one source of support in a personal therapy practice toward health and well-being. The blog does not need to address an entire topic, but instead is meant to help us think or give us that little something to change the way we see things for a moment so that we can take it with us and apply at work and/or home.
In an effort to really reach out and support people in integrating mindfulness into daily life, I have started a twitter feed where people will be receiving very short instructions a few times a day to pop them into the present moment and become more mindful day to day. If you would like to get this click here: http://twitter.com/Mindful_Living .
Please share your thoughts, stories, and questions below. Your interaction here provides a living wisdom for us all to connect and grow from.
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How much am I not in the present moment I wonder?
As a new member here, I have appreciated the blog forum. It takes some getting use to to just leave a thought because you dont get a return thought immediately if ever. But at least you recieve benefit for expressing it and maybe someone casually may catch an insight off of it. Its like group therapy where all get the floor to speak at lenght and no one is dominating and raping the ear of a captive audience. I certainly have learned alot in the 2 times I have come to this website. I am really surprised!
Sweet blog. I never know what I am going to come across next. I think you should do more posting as you have some pretty intelligent stuff to say.
I’ll be watching you . 
I agree with the above commenter, (his name is too difficult to remember for me) about his calling your article ‘SWEET’. It really is the perfect word to describe it, I think.
Doc, I want to ask you a question. I just signed up for Twitter and have no clue what to do with it but I wanted to try it out.
So, if I go to the link you provide where would I click? Under ‘followers’ or ‘following’, or what? And do I only get your quotes or also everyone else’s? Would you be so kind and just advise me? Thank you, Katrin
Hi there Katrin,
Thank you for asking. I believe you just click “follow”. You then click the word “following” on our home page (get there by clicking on the twitter icon on the top left of page) and choose to receive these by text on mobile phone, or just go to http://twitter.com/Mindful_Living and read what’s there. Thanks for following… Elisha
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