Live an Extraordinary Life
The difference between an ordinary life and an extraordinary life is only a matter of perspective. Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go, they merely determine where you can start.
Change can enter our lives silently and this change can be just as important as change we have worked hard for. Sometimes, without any big announcement or momentous shift, we wake up to find that change has happened, seemingly without us. This can feel like a miracle as we suddenly see that our self-esteem really does seem to be intact, or our partner actually is helping out around the house more.
We may even wonder whether all of our hard work had anything to do with it, or if it just happened by way of grace. This doesn’t mean that our efforts play no part in the miracle of change—they do. It’s just that they are one small part of the picture that finally results in the softening of our hearts.
Cultivating Peace in Chaotic Times
During these Chaotic Times, one thing is extremely important in order to overcome any temporary crisis. In particular, it has to do with YOUR POWER to bring peace and harmony to yourself and the world around us.
For instance, there are periods in life when certain events and situations demand greater inner strength, courage, understanding, and optimism. Furthermore, they may be of a personal, familial, social, political or even planetary nature. For example, as a planet, we are going through multiple crises in which many of us are being tested in a myriad of ways. Each of us is being or will be affected to a different degree. And as a collective humanity, are experiencing concerns which affect the economy, the environment, global peace and stability.
Healing from a Dysfunctional Childhood
Our Childhood Experiences can leave wounds and scars that make their presence felt in clever little ways, long after we’ve “grown up”. If you find you have difficulty having healthy relationships or being successful at work, this may be what’s holding you back from having the life you want. A difficult past doesn’t have to cast a shadow over your life.
Our lives can be forever changed if we experienced a dysfunctional or traumatic childhood. Children who felt the pain of abuse or neglect or the loss of someone they loved continue to suffer even when they are adults. Sometimes we don’t recognize the signs of abuse, neglect, or some other kind of trauma or dysfunction in our childhood. Other times we tend to block out the memories or minimize them because of the pain we feel.
Your wounds may not be your fault, but your healing is your responsibility for living a happier, healthier life. (more…)
Optimism and Pessimism
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute…. George Bernard Shaw
Do you view the glass as half empty, or half full? Or have we got the glass-half-full metaphor all wrong?
Our Perception is a Matter of Perspective.
We were taught that pessimists see the glass as half-empty while optimists see it as half-full. Perhaps it has more to do with what YOU DO than how you see the glass. For example: does thinking positively make us healthier? Or is it that being healthier leads us to think positively?
We all have ‘sunnier’ days in which we wear the rosy and bright glasses, and ‘rainier’ days when the world is seen through the gray and dark glasses. Some people, have a consistent tendency to think, feel and behave, in a way that is unbalanced and inclined toward one of the extremes on the optimism-pessimism continuum.
Tune in to Your Inner Feedback Loop
Our thoughts are an integral part of our humanness and play an essential role in determining our sense of peace and harmony. Did you know that as humans we have on average about 60,000 thoughts a day? The problem is that most of them are reoccurring thoughts. The same thoughts day in and day out!
The good news is that we all have a feedback loop that informs us whether the mind is peaceful, quiet, noisy, conflicted or disturbed. Our thoughts are beyond our conscious mind but they can assist us if we but pay attention to the feedback loop. A lot of our inner struggle and conflict happens when we avoid the negative thoughts. We all tend to do this to keep us from going into overwhelm because we are influenced by their content.
Eudaimonia Center Workshop Member Forum
At Eudaimonia Center we share the liberating wisdom of an approach that we both use in our personal daily practices, along with tools for putting it to work in your own lives. We offer our many years of experience in the field of human potential with ideas and insights into how you can expand your Awareness to become more conscious using two systems we have created—The Mind is the Map and what we call the “Writing on Our Walls.”
We will guide you toward your personal self-discovery process and explain how these discoveries affect your life experiences. You will learn to use new tools that can empower you to lead fulfilling personal and professional lives.
Value and Validation
“Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them.”…. W. Clement Stone
DS: I have been pondering the concept of value and validation. For example, why do we allow others to tell us who we are or live in accordance to their standards. I truly believe that we don’t need anyone to tell us, who we are. There is no need to base our value on how much we make, how big our home is compared to others or how important we are.
Our true value is based solely how we live our life with authenticity and how we embrace our inner self. Awareness, consciousness and emotional intelligence can empower us to live our values independent of what others think.
