Listen to Dick Read this Nugget The number one cause of holiday stress is our primitive ego’s need for perfection. We often feel driven to make the holidays “successful”—–and you will define success in what ever way makes sense to you as an individual. If you can intentionally drop your expectations of “perfect” down to [...]
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Insights From The Wilderness – Resisting Reality Can Shorten Your Life
Listen to Dick read this Nugget If your goal is the desire to live a long and healthy life, resisting reality is an unconscious mental habit that will need to be dropped from your thought process. Our unwillingness to accept the reality of “what is” is responsible for creating almost all of the stress, anxiety, [...]
Holiday Stress: Tips to Emotionally Survive the Holidays
List to Dick Reading this Nugget on Holiday Stress The Christmas holidays can be a magical time reconnecting with family; a time of year filled with parties, friends, and the excitement of children. Or you may identify more with those who have holiday stress, who go through the motions during the holiday but emotionally can’t wait [...]
Five Insights To Manage Strong Feelings and Avoid the Garden Hose Effect, The Suicidal Turtle, and the Killer Skunk
Did you know that blocking or denying your feelings could literally be killing you? It’s true. The spiritual practice of being in the moment fully aware of your surrounding, and self-aware of your feelings and emotions, is not just a nice spiritual practice. It can protect your life. Denied or blocked feelings create anxiety and [...]
Fear of Change
In the last few Stonyhill Nuggets we have been exploring the concept that “change” creates all things, surrounds us, and sustains our very existence. At the same time, most of the unhappiness that we experience in life is due to the simple reality that the primitive ego inside each of us is unable or willing [...]
Tips for Dealing with Holiday Stress
Are you ready for the holidays? Are you excited or dreading them? Because of unrealistically high expectations, the holiday season is often a time when many of us experience unhappiness and sadness. Regardless of how you answered, there are several important insights that can help you avoid holiday disappointment. The first is reminding ourselves that [...]
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