Posts Tagged ‘Ego’
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If you have been round here for a while, you’ll know that individual consciousness, and its relations with the mob, is a recurrent issue in this blog. I consider it key to our current situation as a community. Well, the other day I had an insight about this and my first thought, of course, (more…)
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Behaviorism, Biology, Body, Carl Gustav Jung, Communication, Compassion, Competition, Consciousness, Creative thinking, Creativity, Difference, Ego, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Empathy, Ethic, Evolution, Fear, Growth, Imitation, Instincts, Interdependence, Introspection, Originality, Person, Primitive mind, Social conditioning, Thinking, Unconscious, Violence, Walking
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I have a few cases of depression going on in my world (I myself practice depression now and then, but just as a humble amateur
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Addiction, Analogy, Bioenergetics, Biology, Body, Books, Brain, Communication, Compassion, Creative thinking, Depression, Ego, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Family, Habits, Language, Law of attraction, Leisure, Mind, Neuro-linguistic programming, Perception, Positivity, Proactive, Sickness, Thinking, Visualization
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“What the world needs is…” A common sentence, with probably 6,500,000,000 different endings, one for each of the inhabitants of this troubled world of us. I recently had a ‘gestalt’ of my personal answer, one of those moments in which you see the whole picture as a whole (snap!). Here it goes for what is worth. (more…)
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Beauty, Biology, Body, Climate change, Communication, Compassion, Competition, Conflict solving, Consciousness, Consumerism, Creative thinking, Creativity, Crisis, Difference, Education, Ego, Emotional intelligence, Empathy, Evolution, Globalization, Gratification, Gratitude, Interdependence, Learning, Life, Love, Media, Nature, Personal relations, Proactive, Social conditioning, Society, Teamwork, Transcendence, Violence, Visualization
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It looked like a good idea at first, but I hesitated a lot and in the end I did not add the following quote by Charles Darwin to my database: (more…)
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Ageing, Beauty, Biology, Breathing, Charles Darwin, Cliché, Communication, Compassion, Conflict solving, Creative thinking, Creativity, Daydreaming, Dreams, Ego, Emotional intelligence, Fear, Gratitude, Hurry, Inspiration, Learning, Leisure, Life, Motivation, Nature, Personal development, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Poetry, Proactive, Productivity, Reminders, Social conditioning, Society, Time management, Violence, Walking
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Life is amazing when you think of it. Take what you’re really seeing right now, for instance. Try to abandon frontal vision for a minute and embrace the whole picture. You’ll have noticed that, above what you’re seeing, starts a black area, the place where (more…)
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Tags: Admiration, Beauty, Biology, Body, Brain, Consciousness, Creative thinking, Ego, Exercises, Learning, Life, Meditation, Motivation, Perception, Poetry, Transcendence, Visualization
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Most of us won’t make it, and, even those of us who do -after so many years-, might as well be sacrificed during the final celebrations to honor the power of the Pharaoh. (more…)
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Communication, Ego, Focus, Gratification, Inspiration, Interdependence, Learning, Motivation, Optimism, Poetry, Proactive, Social conditioning, Stories, Teamwork, Transcendence
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Here is the analogy that one of my teachers used to describe the human brain: he lifted his right fist and said: “this is a lizard’s brain”. Then he (more…)
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Tags: Analogy, Books, Brain, Breathing, Ego, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Experience, Focus, Ideas, Jill Bolte Taylor, Joseph LeDoux, Language, Love, Mind, Perception, Stroke, Subliminal
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